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Liberty, Equality, Gastronomy: Paris via a 19th-Century Guide...was on the trail of Grimod one day last summer that I passed through the vaulted arches of the Palais Royal, opposite the north wing of the Louvre, and into a vast, empty courtyard. In Grimod's day, the Palais Royal was the heart and soul of... In this article: Paris, Palais Royal, Ragout, Sausage, Garlic, Marquis de Sade, and Babette's Feast |
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FT.com - Arts & Weekend | 22 hours ago
Monet at the Helly Nahmad Gallery
...conditions. Of all the impressionists, Monet was least burdened by tradition: Degas and Manet met while copying Velazquez at the Louvre, but Monet, dragged there by Renoir, found nothing of interest. Rather, as unravelled here, he was in...
In this article: London, Seine, Gennevilliers, and Normandy
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Times Online | 1 day ago
Too much snogging, not enough plot, in viral Paris film
The three-and-a-half minute film attempts to banish from people's minds the idealised, stuffy Paris of popular imagination. The Louvre and the Champs-Elysees are nowhere to be seen. Instead the couple, played by Zoe Schellenberg...
In this article: Paris, Yvan Attal, Rufus Wainwright, Muted, YouTube, Serge Gainsbourg, and Tom Cruise
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L.A. Times - Commentary | 1 day ago
MOCA renews museums' mission
...stars of the permanent collection. They seek out Picasso's "Guernica" at the Reina Sofia in Spain; they look for the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris; they stand in awe in front of Monet's "Water Lilies" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York,...
In this article: Los Angeles, Revenue, Water Lilies, Guernica, Mona Lisa, Los Angeles Times, and Pablo Picasso
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Guardian Unlimited | 2 days ago
Art snobs can keep Poussin
...myth - a Frenchman who drew inspiration from Italy and whose painting Et in Arcardia Ego is one of the most famous works in the Louvre - is the touchstone of high taste, the guardian of Parnassus. To admire and understand Poussin is a...
In this article: Nicolas Poussin, Paul Cezanne, National Gallery, Landscape, Sandro Botticelli, TJ Clark, and Parnassus
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | 2 days ago
Paris fights for right to party as nightlife dies
...soon as we make the slightest noise outside. It's really tough," said Morgane de Ferluc, who runs the restaurant l'Emile, close to the Louvre museum in the city center. "We run the risk of being shut down, which would be a catastrophe," she...
In this article: Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, Ernest Hemingway, Jim Morrison, Barcelona, and Amsterdam
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TIME | 4 days ago
'2012' Review: Doomsday Porn with Cusack, Harrelson
...when it wants to. Note how it dispenses with the complete works of Dan Brown in a few blunt strokes: the Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre, Vatican City is destroyed, Washington's masonry crumbles. The closing credits announce that the...
In this article: John Cusack, The Day After Tomorrow, Woody Harrelson, Roland Emmerich, Amanda Peet, Hurricane Katrina, Global warming, Noble prize, and Ain't It Cool News
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Reuters | 5 days ago
UPDATE 1-UAE's Aabar says mulling Daimler stake increase
...its infrastructure and propelling itself on the global stage. It is already building a cultural island district, housing offshoots of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums. IPIC's chairman Shaikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan last year bought...
In this article: Daimler AG, IPIC, Abu Dhabi, Revenue, and Manchester City
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CNET News.com | November 09, 2009
Apple Store opens in the Louvre: Where next?
...an Apple Store. Apple has opened an Apple Store at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, an upscale shopping center beneath the famous Louvre art gallery. We reckon Apple products will look right at home in an art gallery, and we've come up...
In this article: Apple Store, Apple, Paris, Microsoft, and France
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washingtonpost.com | November 06, 2009
Louvre plays home to Apple's first French store
In this article: Apple Inc, Microsoft, Iphone, Paris, Revenue, and France Telecom
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Reuters | November 06, 2009
Louvre plays home to Apple's first French store
By Lionel Laurent PARIS, Nov 6 (Reuters Life!) - Computer giant Apple Inc <AAPL.O> will open its first French store beneath the Louvre museum on Saturday just two weeks after Microsoft <MSFT.O> opened a theme cafe to promote its...
In this article: Apple Inc, Microsoft, Iphone, Paris, Revenue, and France Telecom
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Description from Wikipedia:
The Musée du Louvre or officially the Grand Louvre — in English, the Louvre Museum or Great Louvre, or simply the Louvre — is the largest national museum of France, the most visited museum in the world, and a historic monument. It is a central landmark of Paris, located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (neighbourhood). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet).
The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are still visible. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1672, 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 antique sculpture. In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Académie 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. During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum, to display the nation's masterpieces.
- Name:
- Musée du Louvre
- Type:
- Art museum, Design/Textile Museum, Historic site
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 1793
- Latitude:
- 48.860395
- Longitude:
- 2.337599
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