NO ONE IS quite sure how the Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, got its name. One theory goes that the area was an ancient hunting ground for wolves (lupi in Latin), which used to roam ...

It's March 27 669BC, and night has fallen over Nineveh, the Assyrian capital. On the temple roof, Balasi, chief astrologer to king Esarhaddon, is scanning the sky. An adviser has told the king that ...

The Louvre, a former royal palace and the world’s largest, most-visited museum, displays some 35,000 pieces dating from 7000BC to the mid-19th century. Everyone gets lost and it doesn’t matter ...

In 2023, you told the Elysée about the urgent need for renovation at the Louvre and proposed the creation of a new entrance to relieve congestion at the Pyramid. Why is Emmanuel Macron only ...

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Whenever a French leader starts to have immortal longings—something that happens fairly frequently—there is a good likelihood that it will redound to the benefit of the Louvre. Louis XVI was ...