PARIS (NEXSTAR) – The Louvre is one of the most well-known art museums in the entire world. It used to be a fortress, then a ...

When the former New York Times Paris bureau chief first set out to write a book about the most famous and largest museum in ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author and former New York Times Paris bureau chief Elaine Sciolino about the new book, How to Fall in Love with the Louvre.

The Louvre is the granddaddy of public art museums. In 1793 the medieval fortress-turned-royal palace was opened to all the people by order of the French Revolutionary government. Fostered later ...

The Louvre was first established in 1793 in the Louvre Palace, originally a mediaeval fortress first built in the 12th century. There are still remnants of the Philip II-era fortress in the museum ...

KELLY: Well, back up and give us a little bit of the history because the Louvre, as you detail, it wasn't built as a place to show great art to the people. It was a fortress. It was an arsenal.