A couple years ago I visited France and in the Louvre they had on display the French crown. I was thinking, during the Revolution and in the time following it, I find it hard to believe that it wasn't stolen, taken apart, and sold jewel by jewel. How did it manage to survive intact?
There is not one French Crown, there were actually 20 of them stashed at the Basilica of Saint-Denis where the vast majority of French kings and their close family are buried.
The crown displayed at the Louvres Museum is unfortunately the only one from the pre-Revolution era (Ancient Régime) that was spared by the revolutionnaries when they sacked the Basilica :
The crown you saw is probably the one that belonged to Louis XV but we have plenty other items that are considered a part of the French Crown Jewels collection like Napoleon and Josephine's Crowns (yes, 11 years after they pillaged the Basilica, we had someone crowning himself Emperor of France and taking full control of the country ...)