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Diana of Anet, made around 1550 and crowning a monumental fountain in the park of the Château d'Anet. Unfortunately, the sculptor's name has remained unknown, but this masterpiece has been attributed, consistently and mistakenly, to Benvenuto Cellini, Jean Goujon and Germain Pilon. Collection of the Louvre;
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15 August, 4.30 in the morning. My God, have mercy on me! My eyes have no more tears with which to weep for you, my poor children; farewell, farewell! Marie Antoinette The Queen of France wrote this line in her prayer book a few hours before her death, knowing
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Louvre staff continue their strike amid lack of progress in talks between the museum's management and the Ministry of Culture. The strikes, which began in mid-December, resumed on 5 January after a break for the holidays. The museum was closed today. The trade unions are demanding higher
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In 1896 the Louvre bought the tiara of the Scythian king Saitaphernes for 220,000 francs. Eight of the foremost specialists in antiquity and the history of art pronounced it a masterpiece and assured the museum that it would become the pride of the Louvre. The Imperial Museum in Vienna
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The exhibition “1925–2025. One Hundred Years of Art Deco” at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris marks the centenary of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, from which the Art Deco style took its name and won worldwide recognition. The exhibition treats Art Deco
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Last night in Paris, at a rally on the Place de la République condemning the seizure of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, an American flag was burned. Were it not for the Monument to the Republic by the Morice brothers in the background, one might think the party was taking
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A Sword Stolen from the Statue of Joan of Arc in Front of the Church of Saint-Augustin in Paris. The shocking act of vandalism went roughly as follows: a man climbed onto the sculpture of Joan of Arc and damaged the statue of France's national heroine by
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In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" was stolen from the Louvre. The robbery was executed with an almost caricatured simplicity. A museum employee, Vincenzo Peruggia, hid in a storeroom until closing time. With the help of two accomplices, he removed the glass case from the
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Georges Clemenceau's Toothbrush Kept Its Secrets for a Century. French museum curators never cease to astonish. This time with their scholarly labours. Having examined the toothbrush of the Prime Minister of France in 1906 to 1909 and again in 1917 to 1920, researchers have managed to reconstruct his
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Singer Lou Doillon, youngest daughter of Jane Birkin, told an anecdote from life at the opening of a bridge named in honour of the actress:. My son asked me: is your mother still dead? I answered him: yes, but today she is becoming a bridge. One hopes it was the