At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets

＂The Louvre palace and museum belong to the history of poetry. Malherbe, in his most famous poem, ＂Consolation to Monsieur Du Pâerier＂, 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＂--

The Louvre Museum is located in Paris, France, in a former royal residence for a succession of French kings. Established as a museum in 1793, the Louvre houses many of the Western canon’s most distinguished works of art and is one of the most recognizable museums in the world.