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Excerpt from Histoire du Louvre: Le Chateau, le Palais, le Mus e, des Origines A Nos Jours, 1200-1928
Auval crivait sous Louis XIV ]'ai t tent bien des fois de ne rien dire du Louvre et m me ai-je eu assez de peine surmonter _cette tentation, car, enfin, les commencements en sont si cach s, les progr s si incertains et si diff rents, tous les plans si souvent chang s et remu s qu'il n'y a pas grand honneur entreprendre une histoire si controvers e et ignor e tout ensemble si g n ralement. (ii.
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