17/12/2022
History
Napoleon's Dining Room
Napoleon's Dining Room
The Louvre was built at the end of the 12th century by King Philip Augustus. Then the Louvre was only a defensive fortress, but this building has undergone changes over the centuries. Almost every king of France considered it necessary to introduce something new into the appearance of the Louvre. So, in the middle of the 16th century, Francis I, who decided to make the Louvre his Parisian residence, ordered his court architect to build a palace in the Renaissance style, and at the end of the 16th century, King Henry IV ordered to remove the remains of a medieval fortress, expand the courtyard and connect the Tuileries and Louvre palaces.
In 1682, the royal court moved to Versailles and the Louvre fell into disrepair until the French Revolution. In 1750, they even began to talk about the possible demolition of the palace.
New life was breathed into the Louvre by Napoleon, who resumed work on the construction of the Louvre. In addition, Napoleon made a huge contribution to the expansion of the museum's collection, demanding from each nation he conquered a kind of tribute in the form of works of art. Now the catalog of the museum has about 380 thousand exhibits.
