Le Louvre au secret. Brest, 1870. Des chefs-d'oeuvre à l'Arsenal. Egypte anticipated our Internet and post-Internet

anticipated our Internet and post-Internet society and our current forms of communication and thought

Nicolas Bouvier also constantly observed and recorded the images of his contemporaries and peers

The Garden of Ismail's Praise

is almost entirely preserved

Memoirs of a Rouen Composer

Le Louvre au secret. Brest, 1870. Des chefs-d'oeuvre à l'Arsenal. Egypte anticipated our Internet and post-InternetNapoleon III declared war on Prussia in the summer of 1870, but it quickly became a rout. Empress Eugenie ordered the evacuation of the major museums, including the Louvre, before the enemy reached the gates of Paris. In just a few days, 293 masterpieces left by train for Brest, a prime military port. Among them, the Mona Lisa! The arsenal was the ideal place to protect, and evacuate by boat if necessary, these treasures, along with the Crown Jewels