#louvre

#louvre

Host Ben McPartland is joined by The Local France's Emma Pearson, Genevieve Mansfield and John Lichfield to discuss all the latest news and talking points from France. A few weeks after that 88 million jewel heist, Paris' Louvre museum is back in the news - this time with concerns about 'structural weaknesses'. Plus, is it really true that the museum's computer password was 'louvre'? Find the Talking France podcast on Spotify or Apple, download here or listen on the link below.

The Louvre 's horrible, no good, very bad autumn continues. On Monday, the museum announced that it was temporarily closing some offices and one public gallery after a recent audit found structural weaknesses in some beams in the building. In a statement, the museum said that a technical report submitted last week found "particular fragility of certain beams holding up the floors" of the second level of the the Louvre's southern Sully wing because of "recent and unforeseen developments." Experts are currently assessing the damage.

My faces are a mixture of the past and the present. I cannot paint the horrors of the ongoing genocides of our times directly, but their shadows did affect the mood under which these faces were made. Portraiture deals with likeness and the recognition of people known. Faces deal with the nameless. They include those dehumanised, like fugitives, branded as aliens.

When 15-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux realised an Associated Press photo of him at the Louvre on the day of the crown jewels heist had drawn millions of views, his first instinct was not to rush online and unmask himself. Quite the opposite. A fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot who lives with his parents and grandfather in Rambouillet, 30km (19 miles) from Paris, Pedro decided to let the mystery linger.

There's been nonstop news coverage since two men were arrested Saturday night - one, as he tried to board a plane to Algiers, a second in the Paris suburbs. They were tracked down through their own fingerprints and DNA on objects left behind at the scene of the crime - a circular saw, a reflective vest, a motorcycle helmet, a gas canister, a glove and a walkie-talkie. French media say the men were already known to police.

A break-in at the Louvre in the French capital Paris on Sunday saw criminals make off with "priceless" jewelry, according to France's culture minister. Rachida Dati said the incident occurred as the museum, one of the world's most famous, opened its doors Sunday morning. "A robbery took place this morning at the opening of the Louvre Museum," she wrote on X. The museum confirmed it would be closed for the day "for exceptional reasons."

Bohbot's photographs transform the Louvre into a 'living architectural organism,' emphasizing calm spatial encounters through the use of natural light and architectural details.