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Also Known As	Great Louvre • Louvre Museum • Grand Louvre • Musée du Louvre
Date	1793 - present
Related People	Eugène Delacroix • I.M. Pei • Henri Loyrette • Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine • Jacques Lemercier • Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon • Hector-Martin Lefuel • Claude Perrault • Louis-Tullius-Joachim Visconti • Pierre Lescot
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