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Place du carrousel, 75001 Paris, France
Fortress and seat of power for several centuries, "museum of museums" since the end of the 18th century, the Louvre is a place from every single point of view, at the crossroads of art history, heritage history and the history of France. It is necessary to consider the eight centuries since the construction of the first fortress to identify a certain number of specificities that offer indispensable keys to understand the Louvre of today and consider that of tomorrow. Since the end of the 18th century, the Louvre Museum has gradually taken possession of the former royal palace. Under the Second Empire and through its tragic epilogue of the Commune, the metamorphosis was completed and the Louvre is today, in its outer envelope, what the Third Republic did to the Palace wanted by Napoleon III, amputated from the Tuileries Palace burned down in 1871: immense palace, stretching on the banks of the Seine, by no means compact, unlike most large museums that develop organically in some way aro
Tags
Jardin remarquable, Musée de France, Museum of Arts, Decorative Arts & Society and civilisation
Accès
Metro: Concorde (lines 1, 8 & 12), Tuileries (line 1), Pyramides (lines 7 & 14) and Palais-Royal-musée du Louvre (lines 1 and 7) / RER C Musée d'Orsay (cross the Seine via the Léopold Sédar Senghor footbridge) Bus: lines 24, 48, 69 and 81 Vélib: 2 rue Cambon, 2 rue d'Alger, 5 rue de l'Échelle, 165 rue Saint-Honoré and Quai Anatole-France (left bank)
©Donation René-Jacques, Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Diffusion RMN
