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North wing of Louvre facing main courtyard. The Louvre Palace (French: Palais du Louvre, [palɛ dy luvʁ]), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, occupying a vast expanse of land between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois.
The early days were hectic. Privileged artists continued to live in residence, and the unlabeled paintings hung "frame to frame from floor to ceiling". [37] The structure itself closed in May 1796 due to structural deficiencies. It reopened on 14 July 1801, arranged chronologically and with new lighting and columns. [37]
Finally, on 15 March 1528, he declared his intention to live in Paris. Since the old royal palace on the Île-de-la-Cité was occupied by the Parlement of Paris, he announced that he would live in the Louvre. By the time of Francois I, the Louvre had long been associated with the French monarchy.
Upon the death of her mother in 1775, Marguerite Gérard, the youngest of the seven children, took up residence in the Louvre with her sister and her sister's husband Jean-Honoré Fragonard. [5] She lived in the Louvre with them for approximately thirty years, [6] allowing her to view and be inspired by great artworks of the past and present. [3]
Paris in the 18th century was the second-largest city in Europe, after London, with a population of about 600,000 people. The century saw the construction of Place Vendôme, the Place de la Concorde, the Champs-Élysées, the church of Les Invalides, and the Panthéon, and the founding of the Louvre Museum.
The Marie de' Medici cycle (now in the Louvre) was installed in 1625, and although he began work on the second series it was never completed. [33] Marie was exiled from France in 1630 by her son, Louis XIII , and died in 1642 in the same house in Cologne where Rubens had lived as a child.
Parisians in the Louvre, by Léopold Boilly (1810) According to the census taken by the government, the population of Paris in 1801 was 546,856 persons By 1811, it had grown to 622,636. [3] The wealthiest Parisians lived in the western neighborhoods of the city, along the Champs-Élysées, and the neighborhood around Place Vendome.
9 January – Surveying begins for a new (southern) wing of Louvre, on the side of the Seine river, the galerie du bord-de-l'eau, to connect the Louvre with the Tuileries Palace. 14 March – The Catholic League's governor of Paris, the comte de Brissac , agrees to surrender the city to Henry IV in exchange for money and the promise of the ...