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Virgin Megastore, on the Champs-Elysées and beneath the Louvre, has the best stock of CDs.
A week ago I was looking among the Egyptian antiquities in the renovated Louvre, and my eye was caught by a small painted limestone panel from the tomb of Princess Nefertiabet, who lived and died in the reign of her kinsman Cheops, 2590-2565 B.C.
This began as a royal library in 1368, when Charles V placed 973 manuscripts in the Louvre.
In 1793, when the leaders of the Revolution declared the palace a national museum, the Louvre held 630 works of art; a recent inventory listed 250,000.
The collection — and indeed the building itself — is not huge or overbearing, allowing visitors to relax and enjoy the art perhaps more than is possible in such massive galleries as the Louvre or Rijksmuseum.
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