This
museum is famous all over the world. It is the oldest museum in Paris. It is dedicated
to a very long period from antiquity (egyptians, greeks, romans....) up to the
first part of the XIXth century. The Louvre was originally
built at a fortress. Around year 1200, near the city limits and the Seine river
banks, the Louvre was considered and administered as an additional protection
in the Paris defensive system by King Philippe Auguste's engineers. |