The palais du Louvre in Paris, on the Right Bank of the Seine is a former royal palace, situated between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois. Its origins date back to the medieval period and its present structure has evolved in stages since the sixteenth century.
Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin
<cite class="book" style="font-style:normal">Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin (1915)      <i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/58400/58414/58414_louvre_plan.htm">History of Architecture</a></i>, College Histories Of Art, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:New_York,_NY" title="Category:New York, NY">New York, NY</a>:  Longmans, Green, and Co.  <small></small></cite>