Engraving from jean mariette's l'architecture françoise (1738) depicting the design of the southern facade of the eastern end of the louvre (the "old louvre"), facing the river seine, constructed during the reign of louis xiv, according to designs by claude perrault. Date: circa 1665–1680 (date of Perrault's original design)1738 (date of publication of the engraving).
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