The Bayeux Tapestry, an embroidered cloth depicting the Battle of Hastings in 1066, has a complex and tumultuous history. In 1476, it was first mentioned in an inventory of Bayeux Cathedral. The tapestry's details were written down by Antiquarian Smart Lethieullier in 1732-3 while he lived in Paris, but it wasn't published until 1767. During the French Revolution, the artwork was declared public property and used as a wagon cover, but it was saved by a lawyer who hid it at home. Napoleon temporarily moved the tapestry to Paris for display in 1804, and it was removed from Bayeux again during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, only to be returned two years later. The Gestapo removed the tapestry to the Louvre in Paris just days before the German withdrawal in 1944, with a message suggesting the Nazis planned to take it to Berlin.