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