The world’s largest museum has a new boss. French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Christophe Leribault as the new director of the Louvre Museum on Wednesday. The appointment comes a day after his predecessor Laurence des Cars, the museum’s first female director, resigned. The former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, Elaine Sciolino, wrote in her book “Adventures in the Louvre” that des Cars “brought impeccable credentials as director”. Yet the winds were not in des Cars’ favour. She was accused of rushing the sweeping, €800 million “Nouvelle Renaissance” modernisation of the museum, one of French President Emmanuel Macron’s pet projects. But disaster struck when thieves took less than eight minutes to steal crown jewels valued at €88 million ($102 million) from the Louvre in October. The heist stunned visitors, exposed glaring vulnerabilities and left one of France’s most symbolically charged collections in criminal hands. In a succinct communiqué released Tuesday, Macron’s office announced that des Cars had offered her resignation, which the president accepted. “She has too few friends and too many enemies,” Sciolino said …