For those who have never been to the Louvre, let me summarize:
1, the 
Mona Lisa. Very nice. Looks good in person, albiet about 20 feet away from you.
2, Michaelangelo's "slaves" (one of which is pictured). Brilliant and powerful and shows why he's the master.
3, a few nice Caravaggios, especially that one (The Fortune Teller).
4, some lovely Rembrandts, including that wonderful self portrait.
5, about 3 million gigantic, incredibly dull French paintings showing either dead soldiers or things with clouds. Skip all of these.
All told, we managed to wend our way through in about 90 minutes. Considering the place is about as big as the Pentagon (they used to fill some halls with dirt and ride horses through it to go fox hunting INDOORS), that's no small feat.
Oh, and we went to the Rodin Museum, which, all in all, has much more interesting stuff than the Louvre. Sorry, King Louis.
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