{"id":109390,"date":"2017-12-09T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:52:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:52:03","slug":"the-louvre-opened-as-museum-1793-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/the-louvre-opened-as-museum-1793-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Louvre opened as a museum, 1793"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/SRTXad5qO9I\/AAAAAAAAA6Y\/nNv0VK2-IYY\/s1600-h\/louvre.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"89\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266070714005994450\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/louvre.png\" class=\"wp-image-109391\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 97px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 219px;\" \/><\/a>On 8th November 1793, as the Reign of Terror began in Revolutionary France the <i>Palais du Louvre<\/i> (Louvre Palace)  first opened in its new role housing a national  museum. The palace started life as a twelfth-century fortress, which  successive generations of French monarchs altered and expanded. In the  mid-eighteenth-century, King Louis XV accepted a proposal to use part of  the palace as a gallery in which visitors could view part of the royal  collection.<\/p>\n<p>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/modernhistorian.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/on-this-day-in-history-louis-xvi.html\">the execution of Louis XVI<\/a> and the suppression of the Catholic Church their respective art  collections became property of the French people, as did many works of  art confiscated from \u00e9migr\u00e9s (those who had fled the country as the  Revolution progressed). The public could view the initial collection of  537 paintings and 184 other works of art for free on three days a week.  The French government pledged to provide 100,000 <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">livres per<\/span> year to expand the collection, but the military successes of the  Republic resulted in many works of art from across Europe being brought  back to France &#8211; a process that continued during Napoleon&#8217;s reign.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to learn more, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louvre.fr\/llv\/musee\/histoire_louvre.jsp?bmLocale=en\">history pages<\/a> on the Louvre web site.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 8th November 1793, as the Reign of Terror began in Revolutionary France the Palais du Louvre (Louvre Palace) first opened in its new role housing a national museum. The palace started life as a twelfth-century fortress, which successive generations of French monarchs altered and expanded. In the mid-eighteenth-century, King Louis XV accepted a proposal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}