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		Bayart on May 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: $35 sculpture found at an Austin Goodwill was loot... > If some Frenchman digs up some artifacts in France, and then sells/trades/gives them to a British museum, that's not looting According to French law, it is both looting and traficking ;) We have a different approach to it than the British.

vkou on May 6, 2022 [–]

Sure, that may be the case - but my point is that if French law allowed what I described, it wouldn't be looting, because France is a peer of the UK, as opposed to a vassal.

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