| Paris has over
30 museums and The Louvre is the granddaddy of them all. Audrey and
I think that you could spend three or four days easily here looking at
all the art collections. The Louvre has scores of paintings (30,000)
of them, sculpture, historic artifacts, and Egyptian mummies of all sizes.
You really have to pick and choose what you want to see. The Louvre
was a former fortress and began its career as a public museum in 1793.
Below and on the next page are some of Audrey and I's favorite works of
art. |
This is the courtyard inside
the horseshoe shaped complex. You see the glass Pyramid and some
of the fountains. The pyramid is actually the entrance to the Louvre.
From there you go down an escalator into a huge hall from which the gallery
entrances radiate. |
Audrey looking pretty in Parisian
pink! |
One of the huge bronze statues
in a hall that was full of them. |
I wonder what song this guy
was singing?
This was Audrey's favorite.
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Winged Victory of Samothrace
One of the many beautiful paintings.
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