Seen from from the Jardin de Tuilleries, once the playground of French royalty, the Louvre was the largest palace in the world until the French Revolution and is today the largest museum in the world, with over 50,000 works of art, including the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo.
It was ‘abandoned’ in 1682 when the king decided to move out of town to the Palace of Versailles. From then until the revolution, it was used kind of like your garage, a place to keep stuff he didn’t have room for at his new ‘house’, in effect a private museum. It became a public museum after the revolution.
Seen from from the Jardin de Tuilleries, once the playground of French royalty, the Louvre was the largest palace in the world until the French Revolution and is today the largest museum in the world, with over 50,000 works of art, including the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo.
It was ‘abandoned’ in 1682 when the king decided to move out of town to the Palace of Versailles. From then until the revolution, it was used kind of like your garage, a place to keep stuff he didn’t have room for at his new ‘house’, in effect a private museum. It became a public museum after the revolution.