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Technical details
96 pages, paperback with flaps, 14 x 22 cm, 172 color illustrations.
Publication date
1998ISBN French2-7118-3720-3
French only
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Co-publisher(s)
Réunion des Musées Nationaux
The Louvre palace encompasses and showcases eight centuries of history. A fortress in the Middle Ages, royal residence during the Renaissance, turned museum in 1793, the ever-evolving Louvre has been enlarged by the greatest architects and embellished by the finest painters and sculptors. Its architecture and décor are masterpieces in themselves, and this publication, which could have been a mere guidebook, is a genuine book of art.