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Dozens of students gathered outside the Louvre Museum on Monday in an attempt to block access to the iconic landmark. The movement puts pressure on the government as the Yellow Vest movement also grows. Following Saturday’s demonstrations, calls on social media for further protests on October 24 and 31 are multiplying.
Governments are updating their travel guidance as protests spread across Europe. The question for travel is whether unrest will continue beyond region's shoulder season.
French students are now blockading the world’s busiest museum.
A year after thieves stole $100 million worth of crown jewels from Paris's Louvre Museum, four suspects remain jailed awaiting trial, but the treasures are still missing. The October 19 heist saw theives disguised as workers steal eigt historic items, including jewellery belonging to Empress Eugenie, Napoleon III's wife.
The world's most-visited museum "will eventually have to close its doors to the public" unless the French state steps in to finance a major overhaul, Louvre director Christophe Leribault told Le Figaro on Wednesday, in the latest dire warning about the creaking institution hit by a string of scandals including water leaks, ticket frauds and a high-profile jewel heist.
Models walk runway at the Louvre with flying cars hovering above as designer envisions city life in a warming world In silk slip dresses, breezy vented tunics and gossamer layers of chiffon, the models on Louis Vuitton’s catwalk were perfectly dressed for an unseasonably warm October evening in Paris. As the show began at sunset it was still 24C. This summer’s record temperatures were on designer Nicolas Ghesquiière’s mind. “The world is getting warmer, this definitely had a strong influence” he said. Continue reading...
The Louvre Museum calls for donations for the restoration of its building, and more specifically for the Court of Sphinx: a first.
Two Germans were arrested Saturday after they stuck two paintings on a wall of the hall that hosts the Mona Lisa in Paris's Louvre Museum, police sources said.
"A l'Affiche" met Anne-Sophie Pic on the occasion of the opening of her new Parisian restaurant, installed within the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art. The French chef, the most starry in the world, opens the doors to this new project and reveals behind the scenes the creation of one of its signature dishes: the berlingots, reinvented in a new version inspired by the Louvre pyramid.
