"On Aug. 10, 1793, France’s revolutionary government brought into being one of the crowning projects of the Enlightenment: the Louvre Museum. Once the province of kings and popes, Europe’s greatest artworks would now belong to the people; in the name of science, the arch-modern state would offer Titians and Rembrandts as instruments of public learning and republican liberty. With such exalted purpose, the interior minister Jean-Marie Roland predicted, the new gallery would be “among the most powerful illustrations of the French Republic.”..."
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My copy is supposed to arrive today. I'll take a look at it and see how it is.