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Carrousel du Louvre

Shopping mall in Paris, France

Summary

Shopping mall in Paris, France

Field	Value
name	Carrousel du Louvre
image	File:Louvre Museum Inverted pyramid 01.JPG
caption	La Pyramide Inversée, the Inverted Pyramid skylight, near the entrance to the Louvre
mapframe	France Paris
location	Paris (1st arrondissement), France
coordinates
opening_date	15 October 1993
floor_area	10200 m2
number_of_stores	More than 35
owner	Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
parking	615 spaces
publictransit	Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre
website

The Carrousel du Louvre is an underground shopping mall in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France, managed by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield. The name refers to two nearby sites, the Louvre museum and the Place du Carrousel. The mall contains a famous skylight, La Pyramide Inversée (Louvre Inverted Pyramid), which plays an important role in the best-selling 2003 book The Da Vinci Code.

Among other stores, it had the first Apple Store in France, and a McDonald's restaurant, which created controversy at the time.

Details

Plan of the Carrousel du Louvre and the Palais du Louvre

The shopping mall is located at 99 Rue de Rivoli in the 1st arrondissement. The mall is located near the Tuileries Gardens, the Comédie-Française, the Musée d'Orsay and the Louvre. The nearest metro stop is Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre (Lines 1 and 7).

The mall covers 10,200 m2. It has 33 stores and 11 restaurants.{{Cite web |url= https://www.parisdigest.com/shopping/paris-shopping-mall.htm |title=Paris Shopping Malls. The top ten Malls.

The mall includes a food court, Restaurants du Monde, containing several restaurants including a controversial McDonald's. The mall includes a convention centre and exhibition hall.

The shopping mall contains one of a number of entrances to the Louvre museum. On 3 February 2017, the mall was the scene of an attempted terrorist attack by a 29-year-old Egyptian man, in which he slightly injured a soldier before being shot and wounded.

The Salon du Carrousel du Louvre

Every year the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, an association of artists created in 1861 by Louis Martinet and Théophile Gautier to break with the Official Exhibition, organizes its Salone in the Carrousel du Louvre. In 2018, 600 artists exhibited their works in front of about 15,000 visitors in just four days. The Salon des Beaux Arts welcomes painters, sculptors, engravers, photographers and illustrators, offering its guests a complete overview of the world of contemporary art.

Gold medals

2018: Walther Jaques
2017: Thomas Dartigues, Tae Hue
2016: Jean-Jacques Baumé, Yo Coquelin, Baichuan Dong, Jiaying He
2013: Cao Jun

References

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