Five days after the spectacular break-in at the Louvre in Paris, part of the museum's valuable jewellery collection was transferred to the Banque de France for security reasons, local media reported on Friday.

From the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 to the French Crown Jewels heist this past weekend, the Parisian museum has seen some audacious crimes over the decades.

More than 25 years before Sunday's heist at the iconic museum, a thief took a 19th-century painting in broad daylight.

Laurence des Cars, Director of the Louvre, has offered to resign following the daring theft of historic jewelry valued at 88 million euros ($102 million) from the Paris museum, referring to the heist as a "terrible failure" for the museum.