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    The expansion of the Louvre under Napoleon III in the 1850s, known at the time and until the 1980s as the Nouveau Louvre or Louvre de Napoléon III, was...
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    considered part of the Louvre Palace. The Carrousel Garden, first created in the late 19th century (during Napoleon III's Louvre expansion) in what used to...
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  • perpetuated in Napoleon III's Louvre expansion, which resulted in the entrenchment of administrative offices in the Louvre's North Wing, from 1871 mainly...
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    Madame de Pompadour's Sèvres vase collection and Napoleon III's apartments. In September 2000, the Louvre Museum dedicated the Gilbert Chagoury and Rose-Marie...
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    remodeling of its western section in the 1860s in the wake of Napoleon III's Louvre expansion. Henry IV directed the building of the gallery, which started...
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    Escalier Daru (category Louvre Palace)
    initially designed in the 1850s by Hector-Martin Lefuel as part of Napoleon III's Louvre expansion, it received its current Stripped Classicism appearance in...
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    Hector-Martin Lefuel (category People associated with the Louvre)
    architect, best known for his work on the Palais du Louvre, including Napoleon III's Louvre expansion and the reconstruction of the Pavillon de Flore. He...
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    Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch...
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    Pavillon de l'Horloge (category Louvre Palace)
    western face, which was redecorated in the 1850s as part of Napoleon III's Louvre expansion. The pavilion was built just north of the older Lescot Wing...
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    Institut de France, theaters, museums, and libraries. He oversaw Napoleon III's Louvre expansion and directed the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855. In 1857...
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    Vivant Denon (category Directors of the Louvre)
    Napoleon III's Louvre expansion in the 1850s, Denon's name was given to the central pavilion of the Nouveau Louvre's South Wing. In the Grand Louvre project...
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    construction of the massive urban block along the thoroughfare while Napoleon III's Louvre expansion was being completed across it. They commissioned their customary...
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    Napoleon III in the Louvre Louvre Salon from Napoleon III suite Dining room of Napoleon III apartments at Louvre Napoleon III's many projects included...
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    whom he was a cousin. Several elements of Napoleon III's Louvre expansion bear Daru's name, including the Louvre's most monumental staircase and several exhibition...
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    the monumental staircase now known as the escalier Lefuel in Napoleon III's Louvre expansion, completed in 1859; and decorative reliefs added in 1862 or...
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    Third Republic, and his outsized celebration in the middle of Napoleon III's Louvre expansion thus affirmed the final victory of republicanism over monarchism...
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    expansion promoted by Napoleon III. He was portrayed by Élias Robert as one of a series of statues of illustrious Frenchmen in Napoleon III's Louvre expansion...
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    the enclosed Cour du Sphinx in the 1850s in the context of Napoleon III's Louvre expansion. The exteriors of the Petite Galerie facing the Seine (south)...
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    on Napoleon III's Louvre expansion. 2 December – Louis-Napoleon is proclaimed Emperor Napoleon III. 11 December – The opening of the Cirque Napoléon, later...
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    Lescot Wing (category Louvre Palace)
    created in Napoleon III's Louvre expansion.: 74  During the 1930s, Louvre architect Albert Ferran recreated the attic to expand the Louvre's exhibition...
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  • buildings and build extensions incorporating the style of Napoleon III's Louvre expansion. This project, which would have harmonized the architecture...
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    Le Peletier. The Louvre was expanded in 1827 with nine new galleries that put on display the antiquities collected during Napoleon's conquest of Egypt...
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    Pavillon de Marsan (category Louvre Palace)
    Louvre would only be accomplished a half-century later with Napoleon III's Louvre expansion. In 1820 Henri, Count of Chambord was born here. In 1871 the...
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  • DOMAINE DU LOUVRE ET DES TUILERIES 37 hectares de cours et de jardins... COUR NAPOLÉON 28,000 M2 de surface ""Pyramid" Launch Project" (PDF). Louvre Museum...
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    demolition in 1811 to make way for Napoleon's expansion of the Louvre. The Reformed congregation was given l'Oratoire du Louvre as a replacement and saved the...
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    French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) has a highly polarized legacy—Napoleon is typically loved or hated with few nuances. The large and steadily...
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    1852, Napoleon III moved his residence from the Élysée Palace to the Tuileries Palace, where his uncle Napoleon I had lived, adjoining the Louvre. His...
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    Napoleon III the plan for annexing the communes surrounding Paris (1859) Cradle of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the son of Napoleon III (1856) Napoleon III...
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    its president, Charles-Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, was declared Emperor of the French under the regnal name of Napoleon III. He would later be overthrown...
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    he was the last surviving minister of Napoleon Bonaparte. Several elements of Napoleon III's Louvre expansion bear Mollien's name, including a monumental...
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