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The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...

Timeline of Events

1793

11.8.1793

In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.

11.18.1793

The Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.

1911

8.21.1911

The ''Mona Lisa'' is stolen by a Louvre employee.

9.7.1911

French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the ''Mona Lisa'' from the Louvre museum.