CAMOUFLAGE AT THE LOUVRE

THE LOUVRE BEGAN AS A FORTRESS IN THE RAMPART, WHICH FORBADE ACCESS TO THE RIVER

          The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry, October  (upper level), 15th century / zoom

A magnificent trace remains,which until 2020 projectors highlighted:  

Then it became part of an installation...  

...from which incomprehensible phrases spring out:

"Light brings us more deeply into auto-reflexion"

Since the majority of visitors are foreigners who don't read French, that obscurity does not matter.

As far as French people are concerned...

• Like these Girl Scouts they ignore the messages...  

• Or stop, try to decipher them and rapidly walk on.  

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The exit leads from gloom to light, that is, to a McDonald's and a souvenir shop

One understands the parking-lot owners' indifference

(while noticing the privatisation of City property).

But the Director of the Louvre? 

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Next,

Marie-Antoinette's cell replaced by a tablet