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    Saint-Louis-du-Louvre, formerly Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre, was a medieval church in the 1st arrondissement of Paris located just west of the original Louvre...
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    The Louvre Palace (French: Palais du Louvre, [palɛ dy luvʁ]), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right Bank...
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    The Église réformée de l'Oratoire du Louvre, is an historic Protestant church located at 145 rue Saint-Honoré – 160 rue de Rivoli in the 1st arrondissement...
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    The Louvre (English: /ˈluːv(rə)/ LOOV(-rə)), or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre [myze dy luvʁ] ), is a national art museum in Paris, France...
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    The Louvre Castle (French: Château du Louvre), also referred to as the Medieval Louvre (French: Louvre médiéval), was a castle (French: château fort) begun...
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    The Louvre Pyramid (French: Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass-and-metal structure designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei. The pyramid...
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  • The Grand Louvre was substantially completed in the late 1990s, even though its last elements were only finalized in the 2010s. Following Louis XIV's move...
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    The École du Louvre (French pronunciation: [ekɔl dy luvʁ]) is a selective institution of higher education and prestigious grande école located in the...
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    The Louvre Inverted Pyramid (French: Pyramide inversée du Louvre) is a skylight constructed in the Carrousel du Louvre, an underground shopping mall in...
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    demolish Saint-Louis-du-Louvre to make way for an expansion of the Louvre. As a replacement building he gave Marron's congregation l'Oratoire du Louvre. Marion...
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  • from the collections of the Musée du Louvre that are lent to the gallery on a medium- or long-term basis. The Louvre-Lens annex is part of an effort to...
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    The Louvre Saint-Honoré building is a historic structure in Paris, occupying an entire urban block between the rue de Rivoli (across the Louvre Palace)...
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    becoming a curator of antiquities and paintings at the Musée du Louvre. Between 1808 and 1817 Louis studied at Paris's École des Beaux-Arts under Charles Percier...
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    located on Rue Saint-Honoré in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The screened entrance court faces the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre. Originally...
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    Musée du Louvre in Paris. For a list of works based on 5,500 paintings catalogued in the Joconde database, see the Catalog of paintings in the Louvre Museum...
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    Rue Saint-Honoré, of which the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré is now an extension, began as a road extending west from the northern edge of the Louvre Palace...
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    presently exists, was opened all the way to the Place du Carrousel and the Louvre. "Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel". 3 June 2013. Lynnise Phillips – Pomona...
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    palace and gardens by Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, 1576–1579 Plan of the Tuileries garden in about 1589. The Louvre is to the right In July 1559, after the...
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    Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), also known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. He is widely recognized as...
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    did work as an architect, designing Saint-Louis-du-Louvre, a reconstruction of the collapsed Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre. At his death, his atelier passed to...
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    Rue Saint-Honoré. The land was occupied by the workshops and kilns craftsmen who made "tuiles", or roof tiles. Because of its proximity to the Louvre Palace...
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    returned to the King of France – Louis XIV. Following the French Revolution, the painting entered the collection at the Louvre, where it remains to this day...
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    l’Ordre du Saint-Esprit", in La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France, 1962, no 1, pp. 155–164. Mary Levkoff, "L'art cérémonial de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit...
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    Louvre Palace, a space occupied, prior to 1883, by the Tuileries Palace. Sitting directly between the museum and the Tuileries Garden, the Place du Carrousel...
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    d'Histoire de la Ville et du Pays Malouin, Saint-Malo Portrait of Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, wife of King Louis Napoleon, c. 1809, Rijksmuseum...
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    of the Louvre under inventory number LP 16. Despite its common name, it has no connection with the King of France Louis IX, known as Saint Louis (1214–1270)...
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    4000111°E / 24.5330000; 54.4000111 The Louvre Abu Dhabi (Arabic: اللوفر أبوظبي, romanized: al-lūfr ʔabū ẓaby; French: Louvre Abou Dabi) is an art museum located...
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    the son of Louis XIV. It was held on the square separating the Louvre from the Tuileries Palace, which afterwards became known as the Place du Carrousel...
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    raison du peintre Hyacinthe Rigaud, Paris, Laurens, 1919 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Louis XIV in Coronation Robes - Hyacinthe Rigaud - Louvre INV...
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    Palais du Louvre: Comment l'ont terminé Louis XIV, Napoléon Ier et Napoléon III. Paris: Editions Albert Morancé. p. 30. Louis Hautecoeur, Louis (1928)...
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