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	Louvre - MSN Encarta
		Louvre, (properly, Musée du Louvre), national art museum of France and the palace in which it is housed, located in Paris, on the right bank of the Seine River.
		The building of the Louvre was begun in 1546 in the reign of Francis I, according to the plans of the French architect Pierre Lescot.
		In 1793 the Louvre was opened as a public museum, and the French painter Jacques-Louis David was appointed head of a commission to administer it.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561687/Louvre.html (706 words)

	The Louvre Art Museum
		As Versailles remained thus until the Revolution, the Louvre ceased to symbolise the French monarchy.
		In 1699, the Grande Gallerie of the Louvre was utilised for a public art exhibition.
		It was not until after the Revolution in August 1793 that the Louvre museum was established by the French Republic.
	www.theartgallery.com.au /ArtEducation/artmuseums/Louvre (384 words)

	History of The Louvre -- Part 5 of 5: Bonaparte through Modern Times
		Finally, in 1882, the ruins were cleared, opening the Louvre westward, to the Place de la Concorde--once Place Louis XV, then Place de la République, where Louis XVI was beheaded--with its obelisk, and beyond it to the Champs-Élysées and the broad avenues of Haussmann's Paris.
		In 1981, François Mittérand, president of the French Republic, unveiled the Grand Louvre project, born as much from a pragmatic assessment of the Louvre's situation as from the principle that the leader of a nation owes a legacy to the people of that nation.
		Pei's plan is both ambitious in its scope--the Louvre now receives on average some five million visitors a year, and the museum complex includes cafés, a restaurant, shops, parking, even a post office--and modest in its relation to the nineteenth-century edifice--the glass of the pyramids is specially made to be as transparent as physically possible.
	www.hlla.com /reference/louvre5.html (3224 words)

	The Louvre : Museum Extraordinaire - Art History
		In fact, the Louvre was not always a museum but was originally built as a fortress in the late 1100s to protect the increasingly influential city of Paris from the threat of invaders.
		The Louvre fortress was built for the purpose of defense and consisted of rectangular structure surrounded by a moat and accompanied by several round bastions.
		In the late 18th century, the Louvre was dedicated by the revolutionary National Assembly to house the king as well as monuments of the sciences and the arts.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art43210.asp (815 words)

	Grand Louvre, Louvre
		In the 15th century the Louvre served mainly as an arsenal for the storage of weapons, since the kings preferred to live in their châteaux on the Loire.
		Both the Louvre and the Tuileries were occupied only for short periods, and after Louis XIV moved his residence to Versailles they fell into such a state of dilapidation that in the mid 17th century consideration was given to their possible demolition.
		In the reign of Napoleon III the Louvre and the Tuileries were joined up, and Baron Haussmann laid out the Jardin du Louvre and Place and Square du Carrousel in their present form.
	www.planetware.com /paris/louvre-grand-louvre-f-p-gl.htm (1072 words)

	Le Musee du Louvre - The Louvre Museum
		Located in Paris, the Louvre is one of the largest palaces in the world and, as a former residence of the kings of France, one of the most illustrious.
		The first Louvre was a fortress built at the beginning of the 13th century by Philip II Augustus to defend the Seine below Paris against the Normans and English.
		The Louvre was abandoned as a royal residence when Louis XIV moved the court to Versailles in 1682.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Paris/Museums-Paris/Louvre.shtml (1971 words)

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		The major entrance to the Louvre was through the Grand Portail in the middle of the south range, while the principal spaces on the ground floor were located in the west range.
		To remove this gigantic canvas from the gallery before the remodeling started, workers had to break the door frames of the Salle des États (the frames were eventually replaced with removable ones).
		The Louvre lost its military importance when a group of merchants seized possession and moved city walls beyond the Louvre.
	lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/louvre.html (562 words)

	Louvre - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Louvre, (properly, Musée du Louvre), national art museum of France and the palace in which it is housed, located in Paris, on the right bank of the...
		The vast Louvre museum in Paris, France, is home to some of the world’s greatest art treasures.
		Louvre : famous works of art in the Louvre
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Louvre.html (185 words)

	Louvre. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The building was a royal fortress and palace built by Philip II in the late 12th cent.
		In 1564, Catherine de’ Medici commissioned Philibert Delorme to build a residence at the Tuileries and to connect it to the Louvre by a long gallery.
		In 1984 excavations began for the gradual expansion of the Louvre underground; construction was completed in 1993.
	www.bartleby.com /65/lo/Louvre.html (482 words)

	Picture of The Louvre, Paris, France - Free Pictures - FreeFoto.com
		Rebuilt in the mid-16th century for use as a royal palace, the Louvre became the residence of the King.
		The Louvre began its career as a royal museum accessible to the public in 1793, when the doors of the Grande Galerie were opened to visitors.
		In 1200, Philippe August built the Louvre fortress on the north bank of the Seine.
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		During the reign of Henry IV, the Louvre began to become the artistic capital of the world.
		Hundreds of artists and craftsmen lived in the Louvre as guests of the king, a royal tradition which continued until the reign of Napoleon I. Under Louis XIV, the government made it its business to promote art, and by the early 1700's the royal collection contained more than 2400 objects of art.
		The High is already conducting a fundraising campaign to raise an estimated $10 million for the Louvre project in Atlanta.
	www.lycos.com /info/louvre--paintings.html (463 words)

	The Louvre
		The Musée du Louvre--that is the museum that inhabits the Louvre Palace--is the world's largest museum, and also one of the world's most exciting places.
		The Louvre, complete with photos and historical drawings of the architectural development of the fortress-turned-palace-turned-museum and 300 colorplates of works in the collection, delivers an engaging account of the history that helped form this spectacular collection.
		Indeed it is the history of the French nation itself, a story of kings and castles, excess and poverty, empires and revolutions, love and war that gave birth to the Louvre, and the subsequent embracing of modernization coupled with a legitimate respect for the past that is the Grand Louvre today.
	www.hlla.com /catalog/louvre.html (271 words)

	Paintings in the Louvre - Book Review
		was established as the Louvre museum in 1793 by the French Republic.
		Sir Lawrence provides the body of the text as 115 short essays on artists and their art, each essay is a work of art in its self, informative and entertaining.
		Paintings in the Louvre is a very important art resource and a valuable addition to the literature collection of any art enthusiast.
	www.theartgallery.com.au /Reviews/BookReviews/Louvre (407 words)

	Louvre Atlanta: Louis luxury - CNN.com
		When the Louvre was opened not as a palace but as a museum for the people in 1793, only 124 works of decorative art were there.
		High officials say the Louvre Atlanta program is different from the Abu Dhabi plan, which is closer to what the Guggenheim has done in creating five permanent locations for its collections in New York; Bilbao, Spain; Venice, Italy; Berlin, Germany; and Las Vegas, Nevada.
		Louvre Atlanta's next major entry is the October 16 opening of the second year-long show, "The Louvre and the Ancient World," a gathering of more than 70 works from the Louvre's Egyptian, Near Eastern and Greco-Roman antiquities collections.
	www.cnn.com /2007/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/03/02/louvreatlanta.decorative (911 words)

	Louvre - Wikipedia
		Het Louvre (Frans: Musée du Louvre of kortweg: Le Louvre) is een uitermate groot museum in het hart van Frankrijk, Parijs.
		Van paleis was het Louvre nu een museum geworden, maar zowel in de collectie als in het uiterlijk van het gebouw zouden er nog veel dingen veranderen.
		De collectie van het Louvre is in 8 afdelingen onderverdeeld en loopt van werken van de grote beschavingen uit de oudheid tot aan de eerste helft van de 19e eeuw.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louvre (1558 words)

	Louvre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The central courtyard, occupied by the Louvre Pyramid built in 1989, serves as the main entrance to the museum.
		Louvre Pyramid is a large glass pyramid commissioned by then French president François Mitterrand, designed by Ieoh Ming Pei and was inaugurated in 1989.
		The Louvre, its art, particularly the art in the basement — not on display, is the subject of a scene in Kate and Leopold where Leopold talks about having a private tour of the basement to see the "real treasures".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louvre (2016 words)

	Louvre, Paris
		Situated in the 1st arrondissement, at the heart of Paris, this palace is both from an architectural point of view as from an arts perspective one of the must see sights in Paris.
		Later, during the second empire, between 1853 and 1857, the Louvre was massivelyextended by Visconti and Lefuel.
		The latest addition to the Louvre was the glass pyramid entrance, in my opinion one of the finest examples of a combination of modern and historic architecture.
	www.aviewoncities.com /paris/louvre.htm (283 words)

	Tourist fixation on Mona Lisa a golden curse for Louvre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Scaillierez studied at the Ecole du Louvre, a prestigious Parisian art institute unrelated to the museum.
		The installation will happen behind closed doors on a Monday, when the Louvre is open, so that French officials can dedicate her new abode the next day -- when the Louvre is closed -- undisturbed by museum-goers.
		Tourists wait in line to enter the Louvre, where more than 90 percent of them are expected to try to see the Mona Lisa.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05084/476488.stm (1231 words)

	Travel Book Review - The Pocket Louvre - BootsnAll.com
		A trip to Paris would be incomplete without a visit to the world's largest museum and probably the most fascinating in the world, the Louvre.
		The difficulty in visiting the Louvre is that it is overwhelming, as its galleries display over eight centuries of the world's greatest masterpieces.
		The table of contents is quite comprehensive and allows the reader to quickly identify the type of tour he or she may wish to embark upon.
	www.bootsnall.com /reviews/may02louvre.shtml (573 words)

	Louvre Accord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Louvre Accord was signed by the then G6 (France, West Germany, Japan, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom) on February 22, 1987 in Paris, France.
		Italy had been an invited member, but declined to finalize the agreement.
		The goal of the Louvre Accord was to stabilize the international currency markets and halt the continued decline of the US Dollar caused by the Plaza Accord.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louvre_Accord (107 words)

	Louvre- Paris, France - VirtualTourist.com
		There was no pyramid; the facades of the Louvre were of a dirty grey colour as most of the buildings of Paris.
		In the spring of 2005, I was again in the Louvre where the Joconde had just been installed in a new bigger room (Wing Denon, 1st floor, room 6).
		Established in 1793 by the French Republic, the Louvre Museum is one of the earliest European museums of all.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/France/Ile_de_France/Paris-99080/Things_To_Do-Paris-Louvre-BR-1.html (2556 words)

	Paris Muse :: Tours at the Louvre: A Closer Look
		The Apollo Gallery was the last major Louvre project ordered by Louis XIV before he moved his court to Versailles.
		This began in the middle ages, when lords swore an oath to the king on his “Great Tower of the Louvre.” Its majestic remains (depicted) are just one stop on this exploration of 800 years of history.
		They are only two of the countless storytellers at the Louvre who have captured Parisians in all their glorious colors.
	www.parismuse.com /seminars/louvre-closer-look.shtml (898 words)

	Musée du Louvre \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Paris \| Frommers.com
		Between the Seine and rue de Rivoli, the Palais du Louvre suffers from an embarrassment of riches, stretching for almost a kilometer (half a mile).
		At first, both the poet Guillaume Apollinaire and Picasso were suspected, but it was discovered in the possession of a former Louvre employee, who'd apparently carried it out under his overcoat.
		Two centuries after its arrival at the Louvre, the Mona Lisa in 2003 was assigned a new gallery of her own.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/paris/A25285.html (1194 words)

	Plans for a new Louvre gall France’s cultural elite - [Sunday Herald]
		First mooted at the start of the year by Donnedieu de Vabres’s predecessor, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, the Louvre II – also known as the Antenne or Outpost of the Louvre – is expected to house between 500 and 600 works on loan from Paris, which would be replaced every two or three years.
		“What could be more natural than for the Louvre to extend the scope of its influence and give other towns the benefit of its collections at a time when the notion of decentralisation is being written into the constitution?” the museum said in a statement.
		In any case, the Louvre is continually lending exhibits to regional museums, which in a sense already constitute, he argues, Louvre outposts.
	www.sundayherald.com /43950 (902 words)

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