The Louvre as it looked as a fort
FROM FORT TO ART MUSEUM
Once, long ago, a king of’ France built a fort to protect himself. Years
later, another king of France added more buildings to the fort and
turned it into a palace. The halls of the buildings were so big that the
king and his son rode horseback in and out of its many hallways. Today,
this palace is an art museum. Thousands of pictures decorate its walls.
Thousands of statues stand on its floors, and thousands of other art
treasures are displayed in more than one hundred rooms of the palace.
This gigantic art museum is the Louvre, and it’s in Paris, France. No
one knows where that name came from, but the Louvre is the largest art
museum in the world.
The art in the Louvre is so valuable that during World Wars I and II,
the government of France took the treasures out of the Louvre and hid
them. The hiding place is still kept a secret.
