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The worldwide, iconic centerpiece for art and history known commonly as The Louvre has been the home to the French monarchy, a battle fortress during the Hundred Years War and currently as a world-class museum with art ranging from the Mona Lisa by Leonardo DaVinci(which some believe to be a self-portrait of DaVinci) to artifacts from Ancient Egypt to Greek, Etruscan, Native American and Near East antiquities. But the Louvre was not always the artistic mecca that the world has familiarized the name with.

Since its beginnings, the Louvre has conferred legitimacy on those who claimed it, for the brief period of a human lifetime, and as such it has been central to the history of its city and nation, even before there was a nation. It has been a wartime castle, and, rarely, a peacetime palace; it has witnessed faith, bloodshed, grandeur, and spectacle, despair, terror, and resolve that we in our time can only imagine--or reconstruct from the gilded traces left to us. The Louvre drew......

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