Louvre Palace
The Louvre Palace, or Palais du Louvre, began in around 1190 as a defensive Louvre Castle, guarding the western front of the Wall of Philip II Augustus. Over time it stopped being purely military and, between the 14th and 18th centuries, it intermittently served as a royal residence. A key turning point came in the late 1540s, when Francis I replaced much of the expanded medieval stronghold with palatial plans inspired by classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance—work that left the Lescot Wing as the oldest still-standing section above ground. Most of what you see today took shape later, with major construction in the 17th and 19th centuries, and with the Grand Louvre project expanding galleries and access. In the courtyard Cour Napoléon, the Louvre Pyramid was added as part of that late-20th-century modernization. …
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