While French governments form and fall, while France tries to halt its descent among the world powers, the Louvre holds its rank at the top of the world’s art museums. Even as demonstrators paraded ...

The Louvre is one of the largest and most visited museums in the world. It contains over 600,000 works of art spanning almost 10,000 years of history, and it typically showcases around 35,000 at any ...

Built in Paris in the late 12th century, the Louvre Palace for centuries was the official residence of the kings of France, until Louis XIV—weary of rebellious crowds in Paris— abandoned it for ...