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Friday 18 April 2014

The Louvre Museum, historic monument,Paris

The Louvre Museum, historic monument,Paris
The Louvre Museum is one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument A central landmark of Paris, France, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres With more than 9.7 million visitors each year, the Louvre is the world's most visited museum.The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection, including, from 1692, a collection of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions  Belles Lettres and the Academic Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1699 held the first of a series of salons. The Académie remained at the Louvre for 100 years.

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