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At
the beginning, Le louvre was built as a defensive tower (1204),
by order of Philippe
Auguste. The upper part was destroyed by order of king François
premier (1546), who wanted to make le Louvre a Rebirth style
castle, for living in (the first architect was Pierre
Lescot). Then, Le Louvre was enlarged during the 200 next
years. There, the young king Louis
XIV was besieged during La
fronde (the sling). Frightened, he decided to make build the
castle of Versailles,
out of Paris.
In 1977, the
bases of the old fortification were updated, and can be now
visited.
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The building
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The
Louvre in 1350. Built in a wood, it was named "the
castle of th wood"
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Current panoramic sight of Le Louvre
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Garden of Carrousel
and Pavilon Richelieu by Louis
Beroud 1883
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Le Louvre, the Pont
Neuf , and facing, the Institut.
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Le Louvre by a morning
rainy day 1901 by Pissaro
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Carrousel
bridge and Le Louvre by Van
Gogh
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FLower
seller near bridge of Louvre by Victor Gabriel Gilbert
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Inside Le Louvre
Mona Lisa
Lisa
Gherardini, the wife of a silk merchant, served as a model
for "La Joconde", painted by Leonardo
da Vinci on a panel of poplar wood. Some people think that
the painting begun in Florence in 1503, the painting would have
been brought still unfinished in Milan in 1506, by the painter.
Invited in 1517 by King
Francis Ist, Leonard brought the painting in France. Some
people think that Francis Ist bought the portrait of Monna Lisa,
and hanged it in the castle of Fontainebleau. In 1650 "Mona Lisa"
stayed for the first time at Le Louvre. She leaved for Versailles
at the end of the seventeenth century, to stay there throughout
the eighteenth century. In 1798, the Mona Lisa with the Louvre,
and is installed at the Palais des Tuileries under Napoleon 1st,
before returning to the Louvre in 1804. On 21 August 1911, "Mona
Lisa" is stolen by an Italian, Vincenzo
Peruggia, who stoled to "make the Mona Lisa back to her country".
The Italian government, after presenting the painting at Uffizi
museum in Florence, then in Rome and Milan will give back the
painting at the Louvre in 1913. The painting will be hidden in
the french country, between 1939 and 1945, and moved at least
five times, so that the Nazis did not seize it. In 1956, a young
Bolivian, Ugo Ungaza Villegas, damaging the left elbow of the
Mona Lisa, with a stone thowing, so that the Louvre authorities
decided to protect the painting with an armoured glass. In 1962,
"the Joconda" crossed the Atlantic to be presented to the United
States. It was hosted in Washington by President John Kennedy,
and then exposed to New York. In 1974, the painting is exposed
in Tokyo and made a stopover in Moscow on the express request
of Soviet authorities .
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The flood. Painter copying
a painting in Le Louvre by Louis
Beroud 1910
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Jewels room in Le Louvre
and row of the rooms by Charles Auguste
Joseph
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Rotunda of Mars and
room of Mecene in Le Louvre by Hirsch
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Campana Gallery or room
of the terra cottan Le Louvre by Charles
Giraud
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"Grande galerie"
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The "Grande galerie
of Apollon" ans the
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