The Louvre, from Fortified Castle to the World's Largest Palace | SLICE EXPERTS | FULL DOC

[@AG-iu9lv]

Seeing the medieval feet of the castle in person was the best part of going to the Louvre

[@spartanrolv4553]

Imagine that today's oldest house in Paris was built in 1407. America was not (officially) discovered yet. The address is : 51 rue de Montmorency (75003)

[@illumnatin08]

@@spartanrolv4553 we may not have the old buildings in the us but we have trees that has stood before the stone for the castles an palaces of Europe was quarried

[@bdhaliwal24]

This documentary has a fantastic combination of history and technical detail. Thank you.

[@3618499]

🤩 C’EST MAGNIFIQUE!…. The Louvre and Palace of Versailles are my 2 favorite French landmarks.

[@didierjacob250]

La Pyramide est un diamant qui rappelle que le Louvre possède la plus grande collection égyptienne au monde en dehors de l' Egypte... une Forme pure et Intemporelle, évidente....Magnifique !

[@suzie2z]

How did it come to France holding so many Egyptian objects. Why aren’t they returned? Interesting history here.

[@didierjacob250]

@@suzie2z école institut d' archéologie française, est je crois la plus ancienne et toujours eu de bon rapport avec l' Egypte. Les collections proviennent de fouilles, surtout d'achats avec Champollion, qui a déchiffré les hiéroglyphes ! de dons ...l' obélisque de Louxor à Paris a été offert à la France, en fait, il y en avait 2 offerts, mais l' autre est resté en Egypte. L' Égypte n' a jamais demandé de restitution....Si vous êtes anglaise, je suis content que les frises, arrachées !! au Parthénon soit restituées par l' Angleterre à la Grèce !

[@didierjacob250]

@@suzie2z vous manquez d' histoire , les anglais ont été bien plus voleurs de biens, destructeurs...heureusement, le Parthénon va retrouver ses frises , après cet arrachement horrible, par ces vendeurs sans respect, pour l' argent...rien à répondre

[@verumverba5711]

The ugliest things at the Louvres are those glass pyramids 😂😂😂😂

[@martijnkeisers5900]

The queen of all Museums! ❤

[@lowesonia8551]

Magnificent. So familer in the 50's very different. I went to the Louvre as a student to copy Paintings. 3 years living in Saint Germain des Pré, few cars down the champs elysee. Milk fetched from the local dairy shop, Ladled into my own canteen, fresh morning delivery from local farms on the outskirts of old Paris. No bombed buildings as in London from whence I came.

[@cynthiaalver]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. This will probably be my only chance to visit the museum and I loved every minute of it! I especially liked hearing about it's connection to the Tuileries. I'm still not a fan of the pyramid, at least from the outside. I want to see the centuries old museum exterior, without that glass eyesore. However, thanks to the video I now have a better sense of why it's there. It's beautiful inside. I love museums and I think I could lose my heart to the Louvre.

[@mmtcar]

This must be your masterpiece (youtube videos category, of course) so far. This is really inspiring. Thank you.

[@MichaelDugenia]

This is the most important and magnificent museum in the world bar none.

[@sheilabatey492]

OMG, when I first saw the glass pyramid I thought it was a monstrosity, however now, I really do appreciate it. The architect(s) involved deserves a medal, in fact the the architect's throughout all 800 years should be applauded. I love to visit old buildings and learning of the history involved, you never really hear the names of the architect's who planned these magnificent building's, they are art itself. This was a fantastic documentary, thank you.

[@kireland8]

I.M.Pei

[@Jai_BestLife]

I love visiting The Louvre, I've been 3 times, so far! 🗼

[@RobBlokdijk-h9mi1958]

Two times! and my feet and eyes were very fatigued 😂 idem Versailles ,and the Vatican museum to much art 😂 i am glad I was able to see the those beautiful peaces of art. Last time I saw the beautiful notre dame ( twenty years ago) it was old sad .. dark and frankly disappointing. Now she is restored to her former glory. Mercy bien to the people who gave her beauty back what she once was. Let the bells ring quasimodo!!!!!

[@ToySeeker]

ART IS TRUTH!

[@tellyboy17]

Grand building for a grant city. Too bad the Communards torched the Tuileries Palace though, I didn't realize it was actually one of the oldest parts of the building. I think through the ages it has always been the Parisiens themselves that did the most damage to the city. They still manged to end up with the most beautiful city in the world though.

[@tyronelowe7090]

It's like beauty is in the eye of the beholder.......to me it's the inside that's beautiful......not impressed with the outside, but I'm not an architect. I think the building needs a good washing and new bright coats of paint....probably more lawn decor as well? Oh well it is piece of old history

[@UserName-nf4sr]

@@tyronelowe7090 Ah, the classic American DIY mentality - thinking you can spruce up the Louvre with a power wash and a fresh coat of Dollar Store paint. It’s charming how some believe a centuries-old masterpiece can be treated like a weekend fixer-upper, with no regard for proper conservation or the delicate art of monument preservation. 🏚️🔨🤡

[@markthompson180]

This was a very well-done video, on a fascinating subject.

[@alansmith9875]

......... to the world's largest museum 🌎 !

[@ToySeeker]

Beautiful.

[@geolloyd1351]

excellent !

[@Moodenggg]

Thanks!

[@SLICE_Experts]

Thank you very much!! We'll keep posting good documentaries :)

[@chris.asi_romeo]

Interesting documentary 💯👏 I enjoyed watching.

[@Marth281]

Love the pyramid ❤️

[@osvaldoelias1943]

How do ya like that, TOURED the Louvre Never left Home Thanks / merci 🤭

[@marcblum7493]

Outside the modernisation of the museum, when they come to this "glass Pyramid" design it was quite controversial in France, like the Eiffel Tower at his time i guess but in the end this modern structure in the middle of an old building was pretty on point i think, and now everyone accept it as a natural part of the palace.

[@1stThailand]

beautifully punctuated. thats what the Louvre is "an architectural audacity in the service of heritage" !

[@Splucked]

Technology advances. Societies evolve. History remains frozen in time. The last thing that an historic building needs is a contemporary entrance that detracts from the beauty of the surroundings. The pyramid would be more appropriate as the entrance to a modern art museum, in Vegas or at Disney. I will never not hate it.

[@didierjacob250]

la Pyramide est très belle et elle a toute sa place pour l' entrée du musée, car le Louvre possède la plus grande collection égyptienne au monde , hors d' Egypte....transparente, une forme intemporelle...

[@sheedcainiste2061]

I love the pyramid entrance reminder of pharaoh era.

[@oliviaromero650]

Excellent

[@billboyer1244]

Excellent!

[@claudiag8097]

I'm half way through, it is all very interesting...but there is some important information missing. Where did the money for all these upgrades come from? Who really paid the price of the extravaganza? Hoping something will come up soon.

[@heliedecastanet1882]

The money came from various revenues from the royal properties (taxes, farming, etc). There is a quite good article about it in Wikipedia, but I am afraid it is only in French ("Fiscalité d'Ancien Régime).

[@TommyAndrew1260]

What did he mean by ‘there’s no centrality’? The building literally hugs the entrance. If anything pyramid disrupted the axis…

[@caroledrury1411]

Totally agree with you Having seen it before an after

[@terri200]

I loved the Louvre qhen I saw it before the pyramid!!

[@plumeretbonnet]

merci.

[@danwarburton5357]

I’ve jumped this building on midnight club 2

[@caroledrury1411]

My entire childhood in the 1960s comprised of my father taking me by the hand to the Louvre every Sunday when it was free. My father was a painter and I loved going. When I went back in 1990 after the pyramids were built I had a cold, hurried unenjoyable experience. So called progress. It should have been a dome. The pyramid idea was a con. The waiting lines were much longer. The cables are ugly. The escalator down is so fast you don’t see out. Then suddenly you’re underground. Gift shops and several directions create confusion. I will go to the Met.

[@cimar14]

And the bathrooms??

[@mango2005]

Looks a lot like the lost Tuileries palace from the outside.

[@brandosbucket]

I've yet to see a American documentary about Britain where they say 'London" in s British accent. Is it only France that gets the pronunciation treatment?

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

Oh yeah, those escalators are much different than department stores 🤨

[@jamesanonymous2343]

BRICKS, AND MORTAR, AND THE TRADITIONAL, POMPOUS FRENCH ATTITUDE,,,,,,,,,

[@gandigooglegandigoogle7202]

Go back to playing with your marbles and let the grown-ups appreciate the beauty.

[@sstarklite2181]

And this was partly financed by an extremely poor country called Haiti. “Haiti finally paid off all interest on its ‘debt’ to France in 1947, about 122 years after the French Monarchy demanded compensation for the loss of slave-plantation assets and revenues after Haiti won its independence in 1804.” “In 2026, the Parliament of France repealed the 1825 ordinance of Charles X, though no reparations have been offered by France.” All the colonial- controlled countries should be paid back, because colonialism is slavery, and USA and a few other nations have gotten rich by controlling the economy. There should be equal wealth worldwide, and no one is truly free until that happens. Capitalists think it’s right to give all the money to a few rich people which is insane. Obviously with equal wealth worldwide there would be no crime, and all people could live without fear. Then all nations could build Tower cities connected to maglev Trains, and all people could work part time, maybe 20 hours a week.

[@UserName-nf4sr]

2026? Did you time travel to pull that out of thin air? It’s cute how you think the future is just going to magically fix centuries of injustice with a snap of the fingers and a couple of maglev trains.

[@phillyvoodoo]

I won a bridge building competition in middle school that used the same criss cross cable system without any for knowledge of this or any other cable system....... Yet I didn't become an engineer.....

[@marybuford9591]

I'd really try to think of a reason to move the pyramid. 🤦‍♀️

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

The Earth keeeps revolving all the damn time, so they have to move it to preserve the illusion of stability.

[@paulsolon6229]

I think the pyramid is beautiful. But not here. Here it’s weird, out of place, an outcast

[@paulsolon6229]

Or an intruder

[@Kunfucious577]

The pyramid is fine but not there. It’s just so random and out of place.

[@pigoff123]

The lourve is amazing. Not a fan of the pyramid. We took a bus trip to Paris for our honeymoon. I still remember when the McDonald's by the Arch de Triumph had a coed bathroom.

[@cweednz]

A co-ed bathroom? Shocking.

[@UserName-nf4sr]

Paris for the honeymoon, and all you remember is a McDonald’s bathroom? Culture shock much? 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@PatriciaBaughman-k4n]

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[@ludovicleprinceroyal8721]

Those protestants aren't going to slaughter themselves....

[@henrik8812]

I think the pyramide looks horrible

[@markomib]

Use imperial and metric, like it or not, right or wrong - 350 out of 400 million native English speakers only understand imperial, and I have never seen someone born using imperial measures not provide both. You did the video in English, it only makes sense to use measurements in both systems.

[@markomib]

@ChebarKillian 75% of native english speakers, are American. Myanmar and Libia also use imperial measures. But wow. What a witty insightful slam there. You're so superior, having tumbled out of a vag not within those borders. Such a wise and foreseeing decision on your part. Thank you for taking time away from calculating launch trajectories or solving cancer for your grand slam on people being born in a nation that isn't to your liking. What's it like being better than a third of a billion people, by default and birth? I think its wonderful we can put a value on other people we dont even know just by assuming where they were born. Nicely done there you. And no, it absolutely doesn't betray a deeply held insecurity about yourself. At all.

[@revertnicolas5977]

@@markomib Who care about the imperial. And who care about your opinion

[@skepticalmaiden]

The pyramid is horrendous.

[@ludovicleprinceroyal8721]

I M Pei was a hack

[@3ladeRunner]

Nope, it’s awesome

[@UserName-nf4sr]

Interesting take on the Louvre Pyramid - especially coming from someone with such… distinct taste in face filters. 🤡

[@didierjacob250]

un diamant pur, intemporel , tu manque de rêves...

[@palastofhistory4026]

Man that pyramid is really ugly completely out of place it just doesn't fit In with the palace facades and obstructes the view of the facades

[@phillyvoodoo]

Should have been a dome....... Domes have been the envy of the ancient revival architectural aesthetic since people started looking back at antiquities..... Indigo Jone, Andrea Palladio..... Everyone that matters incorporated the arch as a main feature..... Obviously a dome is a 3d arch..... A geodesic dome with possibly a stone facade top ring would have done periodic architectural justice as well as push modernity

[@christianwitness]

Pyramid reveals the pagan intent to infuuence ...

[@ThomasGilmore-fi6gb]

The pyramid is a disgrace, like a designer watch added to the statue of David 😢

[@skepticalmaiden]

Agreed

[@AroundTheWorldWithEase]

That was my first impression before I spent time with it in person. It totally works. And I do not have enough knowledge about the triangular shape and how the rose (Roslyn) line underneath the pyramid is related to that, and all the layers of genius that the architect, I.M. Pei, put into it. Dig a little deeper. What about the famous nearby museum and contemporary structure, the Centre Pompidou? Do you have the same opinion on it?😊

[@ThomasGilmore-fi6gb]

@AroundTheWorldWithEase I lived in Paris for over 20 years and have been all over the entire pyramid and attached shopping mall many times. It's just as bizarre as the La Defense skyline. That looks like it was inspired by the planet Krypton scenes from Superman comics.

[@swollenproperty8682]

Curb your self loathing

[@swollenproperty8682]

@@skepticalmaidenyou don’t have poop not even your own opinions😂 “intellectuals”😂🎉

[@theseventhgeneration6910]

I hate to be the first to chime in but, those pyramids scream illuminati. I am NOT one to typically chase down conspiracy theories but I'd be willing to bet that there was some collaboration here.

[@cweednz]

OK Grassy Knowlington. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@UserName-nf4sr]

Next, you’ll be telling us that the Eiffel Tower is a secret alien antenna 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@gandigooglegandigoogle7202]

you're absolutely right, I saw extra-terrestrials landing on this pyramid... it was shining with light... it must have been the illuminati!.....

[@gresal23]

Who gives a fluck about what you “typically chase down” ? Illuminated is what tour brain is not.

[@the_patriot7]

You have a mistake . The Palace of Versailles is the largest palace !!!