site design / logo © 2020 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under cc by-sa. During the early years of Louis XIV’s reign, the Louvre was a theatre of major architectural transformation. And when you finally get to the room where the painting is on display, you're going to have to push through a sea of bodies to peer at the surprisingly small artwork from a distance, through the bulletproof glass that protects it. There's the Chapel of the tomb of Akhethotep and fragments from the tomb of Philippe Chabot, count of Brion, among others. Like most major museums of the time (and to a great extent in the modern day), many of the exhibits in the Louvre were basically stolen. When the Nazis waltzed into the Louvre, all that remained were some minor works. Did the Sword of the Republic really fall from the Arc de Triomphe on the first day of the Battle of Verdun? How did St. Genevieve manage to feed the Parisians during the 10-year-long blockade? It wasn't long before people began moving into what would best be described as "the ruins," living in what had to be pretty terrible squalor as the palace fell apart around them. From there, it was a very short ride to the Cours la Reine, safely outside the walls of Paris. But as The Guardian reports, the French did one thing right: When a German invasion became obviously imminent, they cleared out the Louvre and hid its priceless art collection. The slab is being carried by eight life-sized mourners dressed in seriously creepy black robes. year = year - 100; Bernier notes that the king had left Paris for Richelieu's palace on September 12th, and then returned to "Paris" two days after October 22nd. The man who proclaimed himself emperor after his Grande Armée conquered much of Europe made sure the world's most famous museum was named after himself. So that scene in the Three Musketeers' sequel seems to be historically accurate... @WoJ: Did this answer the question satisfactorily? if(year > 100){ As The Washington Post reports, in 2018, the power couple made a few phone calls and had the Louvre cleared out so they could shoot a music video there. the image of Louis XIV in the menu is taken from PC-Game "Versailles II" created by Cryo Interactive Entertainment. Visually Title: Sully Wing Colonnade de Perrault, inside view of the colonnade Copyright Photo : © 2013 Musée du Louvre / Paul Maurer, The obituary notices which you have escaped, RT @Galina83000: Je viens d apprendre que la fissure anale de est à l origine de l hymne je ne verrai plus jam…, #LouisXIV Could he have said it? Napoleon certainly made himself at home. Did the blanket pardon from 'The Three Musketeers' exist in real life? Should I tell my supervisor that I added his/her name as a reference for my next academic position. Did Palmerston contribute to Louis Philippe's downfall? By September 1883, the remnants of the building were finally gone, and all that remains today are its gardens and a few pieces salvaged from the flames — housed, naturally, in the Louvre. fragments from the tomb of Philippe Chabot, count of Brion. Thanks for contributing an answer to History Stack Exchange!

On the other hand he restored it and turned that half-fortress into a palace. History Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for historians and history buffs. This was, apparently, quite the rage in 15th-century Burgundy: Pot's is the last known example of this kind of tomb, but it was pretty common for a while.