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This may be the last Paris- based book I read before heading off to Paris! It‘s a little dry but still the history of the louver itself is interesting. I just watched a video about how to visit Paris in three hours. The couple said they had done lots of research & had a plan to see a certain number of artworks. Within the first three minutes of the video they were lost and overwhelmed! Lol 😂 https://youtu.be/ztooRABUeyk #Paris! #France 🇫🇷

This year my reading has been Paris- themed. I‘m excited to say I‘m heading to Paris next week. My 2nd European trip in my 61 years. (OMG where has time gone?! That‘s a big number!) It‘s never too late!! I‘m hoping to stop by Shakespeare & Co and The Red Wheelbarrow bookstores in between my unrealistic museum escapades. (The itinerary is just for a possible backbone guide- I know it‘s unrealistic)
#Paris! #France🇫🇷

I enjoyed this, although it was very dense. It‘s really NOT about the museum, but rather a history of France through the lens of a plot of land called the Louvre, which through many and varied incarnations, came to be the world-famous museum we know and love. Be prepared to do a LOT of googling of images, maps, artworks, events, etc.

-picture from 1 of my trips to the Louvre-This is hard to give feedback on, mainly because I am just not the right kind of reader for this book. This no doubt a thorough and well researched book, it was full of detail, too much detail for me, I got lost in all the facts fairly early on and it was a little overwhelming. I would recommend this for avid history and/or architecture fans. Thank you #netgalley for ARC to review, release in May 2020