Cours du Louvre

Cour (Courtyard)
Courtyards of Le Louvre, Paris

Le Louvre has both interior and exterior Courtyards
The interior Courtyards are under a glass roof

Exterior Courtyards
La Cour Carrée Small Square Exterior Courtyard, completed under Napoleon I
La Cour Napoléon Main Central Courtyard where the Pyramid by designer Ieoh Ming (I.M.) Pei opened March 1989, symbolically the bicentenary year of the French Revolution
La Cour Carrousel (Place du Carrousel)
West of Cour Napoleon, built under Napoleon III

Interior Courtyards
La Cour Marley Marly horses Sculpture by Guillaume Coustou the Elder
La Cour Puget French Sculpture Court
Cour du sphinx
located in the Denon wing and not far from the holy trinity of the museum: The Mona Lisa , the Venus of Milo and the Victory of Samothrace (pointculture)
La Cour Khorsabad The remains of the palace inaugurated by King Sargon II in Khorsabad (northern Iraq) in 706 BC.

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