Was the louvre built during the french revolution?
It was built well before the Revolution. It was constructed as a fortress by Philippe Auguste in 1200 to protect the weakest point in his new city perimeter, and was used as a treasure-house, arsenal and archive. In the 14th century Charles V converted it into a residence. After Charles, for 150 years the kings of France preferred other palaces until, in 1527, Francois I announced that he would take up residence in the Louvre. Rebuilding began. Francois died in 1547 when the foundations were scarcely showing, but the rebuilding continued until the Wars of Religion. It was then called the Old Louvre. When Henri II died, his widow, Catherine de Medici moved to the Louvre with the young king, Francois II, but she did not wish to live in the palace itself. In 1563 she commissioned Philibert Delorme to build her a residence 500 metres away in an area called the Tuileries. In 1572, all work stopped when an astrologer frightened the queen into believing she would die on the site. Twenty-two y
