“The Yves Saint Laurent estate can go ahead with the sale of two Qing Dynasty bronze sculptures on Feb. 25, a Paris court ruled today. China’s government had urged the estate of the late French fashion designer to return the bronzes being auctioned by Christie’s International in Paris. … The two animal heads — a rabbit and a rat — were severed from a water fountain at Beijing’s Imperial Summer Palace when British and French troops plundered and burned the palace in October 1860.”