On this day in 1911, Acting Louvre Director Eugene Pujalet asked Prefect Paris Police for Lepine for two specially trained dogs to accompany the watchmen on their rounds. These were to prevent anyone from spending the night in the Louvre as the police had suspected whoever stole the Mona Lisa did. (Peruggia didn't) Pujalet selected them at the police kennels at Charenton. The dogs answer to the names Jack and Milord. The first being of a breed from Greenland origin, the second from Belgium .
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