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    FBI returns Nazi-looted Monet pastel to Jewish owners’ heirs 84 years later

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    Paul Signac's watercolor "Seine in Paris (Pont de Grenelle)", signed and dated 1903, which was stolen from the Parlagi family in 1940 by Nazi occupiers in France and is still being sought by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Art Crime Team, is seen before its theft. Federal Bureau of Investigation/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY

    By Sarah N. Lynch

    WASHINGTON - In 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art from Adalbert "Bela" and Hilda Parlagi, a Jewish couple forced to flee their Vienna home...

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