Overview
- Authorities and media have identified the well-dressed figure as Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, a 15-year-old from Rambouillet.
- An Associated Press photographer captured his image near the cordoned museum entrance as he approached police to ask what was happening.
- He told reporters he discovered the photo’s spread four days later, after a TikTok post topped roughly five million views and his face appeared in The New York Times.
- He says his vintage outfit included family pieces such as his grandmother’s fedora and his father’s waistcoat, with style inspirations from Hercule Poirot, James Bond and Jean Moulin.
- The photo was taken on the day thieves carried out an October daylight theft of eight royal artifacts valued at about $102 million, with Empress Eugénie’s crown later recovered damaged near the museum.