The Carrousel du Louvre is an underground

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, managed by Unibail-Rodamco. The name refers to two nearby sites, the

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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

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restaurant, which created controversy at the time.

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The shopping mall is located at 99

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in the 1st arrondissement. The mall is located near the Tuileries Gardens, the Comédie-Française, the

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and the

. The nearest metro stop is Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre (Lines 1 and 7). The mall covers . It has 33 stores and 11 restaurants. It was opened in October 1993. Major retail tenants include

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, the first Apple Store in France,

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Tea Emporium, Plaisirs de Paris,

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, Perigot, Le Tanneur and

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. The mall includes a

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, Restaurants du Monde, containing several restaurants including a controversial

. The mall includes a convention centre and exhibition hall. The shopping mall contains one of a number of entrances to the

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. 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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