FRENCH HISTORY Pick one of the monuments in the list below to research

List of Monuments
1. Le Musée de Louvre; 2. L’Arc de Triomphe; 3. Le Centre Pompidou; 4. Le Musée d’Orsay; 5. Le Palais de Versailles; 6. Le Parc de Villette-Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie; 8. Le Sacré Coeur; 9. Le Notre Dame de Paris; 10. La Place de la Concorde et L’Obélisque de Luxor; 11. La Tour Eiffel.

3. Research your chosen Monument

4. Choose first a picture of chosen Monument and paste on a work Document or directly in the text box entry of assignment. (MUST HAVE PICTURE OF MONUMENT + 10 SENTENCES)

5. Write 10 sentences on Monument based on your findings in English. ( Number sentences 1-10)

1. Musée de la Louvre.

2. Here are the sentences:

The revolutionary government opened a museum called Le Musée Central des Arts dans la Grande Galerie de la Louvre on August 10, 1793. The gallery of art grew bigger as the French army took art and archaeological items from conquered nations and territories in the Napoleonic war. In 1993 the museum was opened publicly, it was the first time in history that the entire Louvre was for museum purposes. This museum has some of the most famous art pieces in the world, for example the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, The seated scribe, and more. Actually the museum of the Louvre owns the most expensive art piece and that is the the Salvator Mundi worth about 450.3 million dollars. The Salvator Mundi is Italian Renaissance painting by the artist Leonardo da Vinci. The Museum of the Louvre is the largest museum with more than 652,000 square feet. The Louvre has more than 380,000 objects and displays and 35,000 works of art.

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