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A fortress before being a museum
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The Louvre Palace was not intended to be a museum. It was originally a fortress built under Philippe-Auguste, at the end of the 12th century, to protect Paris. The military fortress was intended to defend the west of Paris, and thus the access by the Seine from Normandy, which was in the hands of the kings of England. As it was a very safe castle, the sovereigns of the 13th and 14th centuries used the keep as a safe to house the royal treasury and archives. A royal residence from Charles V onwards, it was Louis XIV’s departure for the Château de Versailles that allowed the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture to move into the palace.
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