The Apollo Gallery , Louis XIV ’s ornate reception hall that was the site of the Louvre heist in October last year, will reopen to the public in July. It will do so, however, without its display cases packed with the Sun King’s precious minerals. Those will be moved to the Louvre’s Richelieu wing, allowing for the Romantic wall paintings of Apollo to speak for themselves, thereby turning the space into the museum’s very own version of Versailles ’s Hall of Mirrors . This is the vision, at least, of the Louvre’s new director Christophe Leribault , who is familiar with the Palace of Versailles having been its president until February of this year. With the search for France’s crown jewels still ongoing (five people have been charged without disclosing the whereabouts of the treasures), plans are afoot for a new display of Empress Eugénie ’s diamond-and-emerald crown.…