Louvre celebrates 200th anniversary with new wing
Puget's 17th-century bronze statues stand in the newly refurbished Richelieu wing of the Louvre museum in Paris. Today President Mitterrand will inaugurate the new wing, which used to be the Finance Ministry, as the museum celebrates its 200th birthday.
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