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Louvre Museum launches multi-million euro bid for Renaissance masterpiece
The jewel-incrusted prayer book of French king François I offers an insight into the Renaissance world. Currently owned by British collectors, France wants it back, with the…
Louvre calls on public to fund return of prayer book
The Louvre museum in Paris is calling on the public to help bring back one of the French Renaissance’s greatest decorative works of art.
Da Vinci may have drawn 'Nude Mona Lisa'
A nude drawing that bears a striking resemblance to the Mona Lisa may have been done by Leonardo da Vinci, experts told AFP Thursday.
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Behind the scenes at Paris's Louvre Museum
FRANCE 24 takes you behind the scenes of the Louvre in Paris, the largest and most mythic of all art museums. Some 38,000 works of art are displayed to the public, but the…
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A stroll through Paris, from the Louvre to La Défense
Paris has no shortage of famous routes. But one of the best-known thoroughfares is that which links the central Louvre Museum to La Défense, west of the city. Popular with…
Macron fans savour 'once in a lifetime' moment at Louvre victory party
Relief, elation and an Ode to Joy swept across the French capital’s temple of culture on Sunday as thousands gathered to celebrate Emmanuel Macron’s victory over Marine Le Pen.
Video: Louvre Museum hosts rare Vermeer exhibition
The Louvre Museum in Paris on Wednesday will unveil a rare exhibition on Flemish master painter Johan Vermeer, the first such show in France in half a century.
Suspect in Louvre attack placed under formal investigation
A man who attacked soldiers with machetes at the Louvre museum in Paris was placed under formal investigation on Friday, a judicial source said.
Louvre attack suspect ‘did not act on orders from IS group’
The main suspect in last week’s machete attack on four soldiers at the Louvre Museum in Paris told authorities he had acted alone, sources close to the investigation said on…
Louvre attack suspect now talking to investigators
The Egyptian suspect in the attack on soldiers outside the Louvre museum in Paris has begun speaking to investigators and confirmed his identity, a source in the inquiry said…
French police question Louvre attack suspect
French investigators Sunday began questioning a suspect in the attack on troops outside the Louvre Museum in Paris, but the man refused to speak, a judicial source said.
Paris’s Louvre Museum re-opens as attack probe continues
The Louvre reopened its doors Saturday, a day after soldiers outside the famed Paris museum shot and wounded a machete-wielding attacker, believed to be an Egyptian national.