PARIS (NEXSTAR) – The Louvre is one of the most well-known art museums in the entire world. It used to be a fortress, then a ...

The Louvre was first established in 1793 in the Louvre Palace, originally a mediaeval fortress first built in the 12th century. There are still remnants of the Philip II-era fortress in the museum ...

The Louvre is the granddaddy of public art museums. In 1793 the medieval fortress-turned-royal palace was opened to all the people by order of the French Revolutionary government. Fostered later ...

“So the Louvre is a fortress. I thought, I’ll tackle it.” She did move past that feeling, and she did fall in love with it. Her new book out this month, Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall ...

Right from the beginning, that is exactly what I tried to do, to treat the Louvre as this living, breathing character, not just a collection of stones that was a fortress, then a palace ...

KELLY: Well, back up and give us a little bit of the history because the Louvre, as you detail, it wasn't built as a place to show great art to the people. It was a fortress. It was an arsenal.