- 1. In which city is the Louvre Palace located?
A) London
B) Rome
C) Berlin
D) Paris
- 2. What iconic glass structure is associated with the Louvre?
A) The Arc de Triomphe
B) The Eiffel Tower
C) Notre-Dame Cathedral
D) The Louvre Pyramid
- 3. Which famous painting is housed in the Louvre?
A) The Starry Night
B) Mona Lisa
C) The Last Supper
D) Girl with a Pearl Earring
- 4. How many visitors does the Louvre attract annually?
A) Around 10 million
B) Around 15 million
C) Around 7 million
D) Around 5 million
- 5. What year was the Louvre Pyramid completed?
A) 1989
B) 1995
C) 1990
D) 1985
- 6. What style of architecture is the Louvre primarily known for?
A) Renaissance
B) Baroque
C) Modern
D) Gothic
- 7. When was the Louvre officially opened as a public museum?
A) 1801
B) 1810
C) 1789
D) 1793
- 8. Which emperor made significant expansions to the Louvre?
A) Napoleon III
B) Louis XVI
C) Charles de Gaulle
D) Napoleon I
- 9. The Louvre originally started as what type of building?
A) A fortress
B) A palace
C) A church
D) A marketplace
- 10. Which park is located to the east of the Louvre Palace?
A) Luxembourg Gardens
B) Tuileries Gardens
C) Bois de Boulogne
D) Jardin des Plantes
- 11. Who was responsible for creating the Tuileries Palace?
A) Cardinal Richelieu
B) King Louis XIV
C) Queen Catherine de' Medici
D) Napoleon Bonaparte
- 12. What is the name of the courtyard that marks the center of the Louvre complex since 1988?
A) Cour Carrée
B) Carrousel Garden
C) Cour Napoléon
D) Place du Carrousel
- 13. Which wing of the Louvre is named after Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully?
A) Denon Wing
B) Richelieu Wing
C) Sully Wing
D) Aile de Marsan
- 14. What is the total floor area of the Louvre Palace?
A) 244,000 m²
B) 300,000 m²
C) 150,000 m²
D) 200,000 m²
- 15. Which wing is located between the Cour Napoléon and the Seine?
A) Sully Wing
B) Denon Wing
C) Aile de Marsan
D) Richelieu Wing
- 16. What was the original purpose of the Louvre Castle constructed around 1190?
A) : Housing art collections
B) : Hosting government functions
C) : Serving as a royal residence
D) Defending the western front of the Wall of Philip II Augustus
- 17. What happened to the Tuileries Palace during the Paris Commune of 1871?
A) It was set on fire
B) : Converted into a museum
C) It was expanded
D) : Renovated by Napoleon III
- 18. Which wing is located between the Cour Napoléon and the rue de Rivoli?
A) Richelieu Wing
B) Denon Wing
C) Aile de Marsan
D) Sully Wing
- 19. What was the Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon's fate in the late 17th century?
A) : Expanded into a royal palace
B) : Converted into a museum
C) It was mostly demolished to give way to the Louvre's expansion
D) : Became part of the Tuileries Palace
- 20. What is the name of the garden created during Napoleon III's Louvre expansion?
A) : Jardin des Plantes
B) Carrousel Garden
C) : Tuileries Gardens
D) : Luxembourg Gardens
- 21. Which wing is the longest and runs along the Seine-facing side?
A) Sully Wing
B) Aile de Marsan
C) Richelieu Wing
D) Grande Galerie in the Denon Wing
- 22. Which wing is named after its western extension alongside rue de Rivoli?
A) Aile de Marsan
B) Denon Wing
C) Sully Wing
D) Aile de Rohan
- 23. Which historian suggested that 'Leouar' might be the origin of the name Louvre?
A) Keith Briggs
B) H. J. Wolf
C) Henri Sauval
D) David Hanser
- 24. What is a more plausible derivation for the name 'Louvre' according to Keith Briggs?
A) 'Louveterie', a place where dogs were trained
B) 'Leouar', meaning 'castle'
C) 'Rubras', meaning 'red soil'
D) 'Saxon glossary' translation
- 25. Who designed the Pavillon du Milieu, now known as Pavillon de l'Horloge, in 1624?
A) Jacques Lemercier
B) David Hanser
C) Henri Sauval
D) H. J. Wolf
- 26. What was the Pavillon de la Bibliothèque known as in the 19th century on the south side of the Grande Galerie?
A) Pavillon Lemercier
B) Pavillon Sully
C) Richelieu Wing
D) Porte Jean-Goujon
- 27. What was the main room on the first floor of the Lescot Wing called in the 16th and 17th centuries?
A) Salle Haute
B) Salle des Séances Royales
C) Salle Royale
D) Salle Etrusque
- 28. What was the Salle Haute called after 1871?
A) Salle Etrusque
B) Salle des Bronzes
C) Salle Royale
D) Salle La Caze
- 29. What is the current name of the room immediately below Salle Haute?
A) Grande Salle
B) Salle Basse
C) Salle des Caryatides
D) Salle Basse des Suisses
- 30. What was the room now known as Salle des Caryatides called from 1692 to 1793?
A) Salle des Gardes
B) Grande Salle
C) Salle des Antiques
D) Salle Basse
- 31. Which room was known as Salle des Fleuves in the past?
A) Richelieu Wing
B) The room now called Salle des Caryatides
C) Salle Haute
D) Pavillon de l'Horloge
- 32. Which pavillon is named after a Duke and located in the Grande Galerie?
A) Pavillon des Sessions
B) Pavillon de Flore
C) Pavillon La Trémoille
D) Pavillon Lesdiguières
- 33. Which pavillon is also known as Pavillon des Assyriens?
A) Pavillon Sully
B) Pavillon Nord-Est
C) Pavillon de Beauvais
D) Pavillon Marengo
- 34. Which pavillon is named after a street and also known as Pavillon Marengo?
A) Pavillon Central de la Colonnade
B) Pavillon Nord-Est
C) Pavillon Marengo
D) Pavillon de Beauvais
- 35. Who wrote about the continuity represented by the Louvre?
A) Jacques Lemercier
B) Adam Gopnik
C) Louis Le Vau
D) I. M. Pei
- 36. Which architect echoed Lemercier's design for the Tuileries Palace?
A) Louis Le Vau
B) I. M. Pei
C) Hector Lefuel
D) Percier and Fontaine
- 37. Who was responsible for replacing prior giant-order patterns in the 1860s and 1870s?
A) Louis Le Vau
B) Hector Lefuel
C) Jacques Lemercier
D) I. M. Pei
- 38. In which century was the original Louvre constructed?
A) 20th century
B) 16th century
C) Late 12th and early 13th centuries
D) 18th century
- 39. How thick were the external walls of the Grosse Tour?
A) 5 meters
B) 3 meters
C) 4 meters
D) 2.6 meters
- 40. What feature surrounded the entire structure of the original Louvre?
A) A wooden fence
B) An iron gate
C) A stone wall
D) A water-filled moat
- 41. What was the original shape of the Louvre's plan?
A) Circular
B) Nearly square
C) Rectangular
D) Triangular
- 42. How thick were the crenellated and machicolated curtain walls of the original Louvre?
A) 5 meters
B) 4 meters
C) 2.6 meters
D) 3 meters
- 43. What was the height of the Grosse Tour du Louvre?
A) Thirty meters
B) Twenty meters
C) Fifteen meters
D) Forty meters
- 44. Who initiated the construction of a new protective wall beyond that of Philip II in the late 1350s?
A) King Francis I
B) Etienne Marcel
C) Charles V
D) Raymond du Temple
- 45. Who was responsible for transforming the Louvre into a royal residence in 1364?
A) King Francis I
B) Raymond du Temple
C) Charles V
D) Etienne Marcel
- 46. Who ordered the demolition of the Louvre's old keep in 1528?
A) Henry II
B) Francis I
C) Louis XIII
D) Charles V
- 47. Which architect was commissioned by Francis I to modernize the Louvre into a Renaissance style palace?
A) Raymond du Temple
B) Jean Goujon
C) Philibert de l'Orme
D) Pierre Lescot
- 48. Who decorated the ceiling of the Grande Galerie commissioned by Lemercier?
A) Nicolas Poussin
B) Charles Le Brun
C) Pierre Lescot
D) Giovanni Francesco Romanelli
- 49. Which Italian architect was summoned by Colbert to design the Louvre's east façade?
A) Michelangelo Buonarroti
B) Raphael Sanzio
C) Donato Bramante
D) Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- 50. Who is attributed with the definitive design of the Louvre's east façade?
A) Gian Lorenzo Bernini
B) Le Vau
C) Claude Perrault
D) Charles Le Brun
- 51. Who led the demolition of Le Vau's dome above the Pavillon des Arts in 1759?
A) Charles Percier
B) Maximilien Brébion
C) Pierre Fontaine
D) Jacques-Germain Soufflot
- 52. Who designed the southern Guichet des Arts completed in 1780?
A) Pierre Fontaine
B) Maximilien Brébion
C) Charles Percier
D) Jacques-Germain Soufflot
- 53. In which year did King Louis XVI and his court return to Paris from Versailles?
A) 1793
B) 1789
C) 1815
D) 1804
- 54. What was the monumental staircase created by Percier and Fontaine called?
A) Escalier Daru
B) Escalier du Midi
C) Grand Escalier
D) Escalier de l'Empereur
- 55. When was the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel erected?
A) 1806–1808
B) 1799–1801
C) 1815–1817
D) 1820–1822
- 56. What was the Louvre renamed to by the provisional government on 24 March 1848?
A) Musée de la République
B) Palais des Arts
C) Palais du Peuple
D) Louvre National
- 57. Which architect restored the exterior façades of the Petite Galerie and Grande Galerie during the Second Republic?
A) Félix Duban
B) Maximilien Brébion
C) Louis Visconti
D) Jacques-Germain Soufflot
- 58. Who completed some unfinished parts of Lefuel's expansion in the early 20th century?
A) Gaston Redon
B) I. M. Pei
C) Victor-Auguste Blavette
D) André Malraux
- 59. Which minister initiated the excavation and revelation of the basement level of the Louvre Colonnade in 1964?
A) I. M. Pei
B) André Malraux
C) François Mitterrand
D) Gaston Redon
- 60. When was the renovation of the Carrousel Garden completed?
A) 2001
B) 1989
C) 1964
D) 1993
- 61. What was the original purpose of the Louvre when it was first built?
A) A royal palace
B) A military facility
C) An art gallery
D) A library
- 62. In what year did the construction of the Wall of Charles V occur, affecting the Louvre's defensive role?
A) 1429
B) 1500
C) 1190
D) 1357
- 63. Until what year did the maritime museum remain at the Louvre?
A) 1827
B) 1754
C) 1777
D) 1943
- 64. Until when did the formula stating that fiefs depended on the king for his great keep of the Louvre remain in use?
A) The 16th century
B) The 19th century
C) The 17th century
D) The 18th century
- 65. Where were the archives of the Conseil du Roi placed in the late 1720s?
A) The attic of the Lescot Wing
B) Several ground-floor rooms
C) The Pavillon de l'Horloge
D) The Palais de la Cité
- 66. For how many years did Ferdinand, Count of Flanders, stay imprisoned at the Louvre?
A) 8 years
B) 10 years
C) 12 years
D) 15 years
- 67. Which structure became the primary location for holding high-ranking prisoners after the Louvre?
A) The Bastille
B) Square du Temple
C) Grand Châtelet
D) Palais de la Cité
- 68. In what year was the first documented evidence of the Louvre's treasury?
A) 1296
B) 1214
C) 1314
D) 1523
- 69. Where was the royal household's parish church located near the Louvre?
A) Our Lady of Peace and Saint Louis
B) Chapel of Louis IX
C) Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois
D) Sainte-Chapelle
- 70. In what year was the Salon Carré converted into a chapel for Napoleon's wedding?
A) 1523
B) 1659
C) 1375
D) 1810
- 71. In which year did the Louvre host its second-ever meeting of France's Estates General?
A) 1614
B) 1870
C) 1303
D) 1593
- 72. Who organized the 1593 session of the Estates General at the Louvre?
A) Percier and Fontaine
B) The Catholic League
C) King Henry IV
D) Napoleon III
- 73. During which monarchy was the yearly opening session located at the Palais Bourbon?
A) Second Empire
B) Bourbon Restoration
C) July Monarchy
D) French Revolution
- 74. In which year did the role of the Louvre as a venue for legislative sessions disappear?
A) 1870
B) 1593
C) 1614
D) 1857
- 75. In which year did Clementia of Hungary give birth to King John I at the Louvre?
A) 1347
B) 1559
C) 1316
D) 1364
- 76. Between which years did Henry III escape Paris, affecting his residence at the Louvre?
A) 1666
B) 1643
C) 1559
D) 1588
- 77. Where was Louis XIV born?
A) Saint-Germain-en-Laye
B) Louvre
C) Fontainebleau
D) Tuileries Palace
- 78. During which event did Louis XIV stay away from the Louvre between 1643 and 1652?
A) The Hundred Years' War
B) The French Revolution
C) The Fronde
D) The Napoleonic Wars
- 79. What year did Louis XIV depart from the Louvre following his mother's death?
A) 1652
B) 1643
C) 1666
D) 1719
- 80. In what year did Charles V establish a library inside the Louvre?
A) 1389
B) 1368
C) 1375
D) 1350
- 81. How many volumes were initially in Charles V's library at the Louvre?
A) about 500 volumes
B) about 1200 volumes
C) about 900 volumes
D) about 700 volumes
- 82. Who did Charles V appoint as the librarian for his library?
A) Jacques-Germain Soufflot
B) Percier
C) François Victor Eloi Biennourry
D) Gilles Mallet
- 83. In what year did Jacques-Germain Soufflot present a project to relocate the Royal Library into the Louvre?
A) 1750
B) 1767
C) 1805
D) 1830
- 84. In what year was the Bibliothèque du Louvre moved to the Grande Galerie's entresol?
A) 1805
B) 1871
C) 1860
D) 1767
- 85. What event led to the destruction of the Bibliothèque du Louvre in May 1871?
A) Earthquake
B) Fire accident
C) Arson
D) Flood
- 86. What was the Louvre's western wing used for during medieval times?
A) Military barracks
B) Ceremonial spaces
C) Storage rooms
D) Royal apartments
- 87. When did Charles of Orléans marry Isabella of Valois at the Louvre?
A) 18 December 1413
B) 19 January 1538
C) 9 November 1389
D) 30 July 1397
- 88. Who hosted a candlelit dinner at the Louvre on 10 April 1957?
A) Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle
B) French President René Coty
C) Minister André Malraux
D) President François Mitterrand
- 89. Which cultural luminary was honored with a ceremony in the Cour Carrée on 3 September 1963?
A) Pierre Soulages
B) André Malraux
C) Georges Braque
D) Le Corbusier
- 90. When was André Malraux himself honored with a ceremony in the Cour Carrée?
A) 3 September 1963
B) 27 November 1976
C) 1 September 1965
D) 2 November 2022
- 91. Who delivered the eulogy for André Malraux?
A) André Malraux
B) Emmanuel Macron
C) René Coty
D) Prime Minister Raymond Barre
- 92. Who delivered the eulogy for Pierre Soulages in 2022?
A) Raymond Barre
B) André Malraux
C) President Emmanuel Macron
D) René Coty
- 93. Which Holy Roman Emperor stayed at the Louvre from March to April 1416?
A) Sigismund
B) Peter the Great
C) Manuel II Palaiologos
D) Charles IV
- 94. In which year did Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain stay in the Appartement d'été d'Anne d'Autriche?
A) 1722
B) 1649
C) 1717
D) 1540
- 95. Which Tsar preferred to stay at the Hôtel de Lesdiguières instead of the Louvre?
A) Peter the Great
B) Sigismund
C) Charles V
D) Manuel II Palaiologos
- 96. Where were local judicial functions, including torture and incarceration, mainly located?
A) Grand Châtelet
B) Lescot Wing
C) Palais de la Cité
D) Louvre Palace
- 97. In which year did the Louvre temporarily host judicial functions due to renovations at another location?
A) 1824
B) 1832
C) 1546
D) 1505
- 98. Where was torture carried out during the period when the Louvre hosted judicial functions in 1505?
A) Petit Châtelet
B) Lemercier Wing
C) Palais de la Cité
D) Grand Châtelet
- 99. Which king summoned the Parlement of Paris to hold sessions at the Louvre?
A) Charles IX
B) Louis XIV
C) Napoleon Bonaparte
D) Henry IV
- 100. On which floor of the Lemercier Wing was the Conseil d'État located?
A) Third floor
B) Ground floor
C) Second floor
D) First floor
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