"The Louvre palace and museum belong to the history of poetry. Malherbe, in his most famous poem, "Consolation to Monsieur Du P???erier", spoke of the "barriers of the Louvre". Baudelaire, in "The Swan", declares: "Also in front of this Louvre an image oppresses me. " This entire masterpiece could be read as an invocation of a palace-museum in metamorphosis in the heart of a Paris in transformation, of a 19th century that is being invented with the museum. Apollinaire was also involved in the Louvre, and many others after ...
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"The Louvre palace and museum belong to the history of poetry. Malherbe, in his most famous poem, "Consolation to Monsieur Du P???erier", spoke of the "barriers of the Louvre". Baudelaire, in "The Swan", declares: "Also in front of this Louvre an image oppresses me. " This entire masterpiece could be read as an invocation of a palace-museum in metamorphosis in the heart of a Paris in transformation, of a 19th century that is being invented with the museum. Apollinaire was also involved in the Louvre, and many others after them"--
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