BEIJING, July 3: The family of a French billionaire and art collector eased a sore point in history on Friday by returning two bronze animal heads, among Chinese treasures pillaged from a Beijing palace by French and British troops more than a century and a half ago. The sculptures, of a rabbit and a rat, are among 12 animal heads representing the Chinese zodiac that were looted from Beijing’s Old Summer Palace in 1860 by Anglo-French troops during the Second Opium War. (agencies)
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