
The incredible metamorphosis, over eight centuries, of a feudal fortress into the largest museum in the world: the Louvre. A chaotic existence: construction and destruction, revolution and restoration. Feudal fortress, medieval castle, Renaissance palace, royal residence, seat of the academies, center of revolutionary power, first museum of France: the Louvre has been constantly transformed, enlarged, magnified.
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Air Date: 2016-07-09
At the end of the 12th century, Philip II the Augustus had a feudal fortress erected near the banks of the Seine to d...
Air Date: 2016-07-09
The move of Louis XIV at Versailles in 1682 halted work at the Louvre. Occupied by the French Academy, then by the Ac...