Paris and its historical scenes . pose thebuilding in such a form that we might convenientlylodge a number of the best workmen, and skilfulmasters, whether in painting, jewellery, clockmaking,or engraving on stone, as well as in many other ex-cellent arts, as w ell to benefit ourselves through them,and to afford the means of their being employed bysuch of our subjects as have need of their industry,as to create, as it were, a nursery of workmen, sothat, ha\ing served an apprenticeship to skilful mas-ters, many may go hence to be spread everywherethrough the kingdom, capable of titly labouring
Paris and its historical scenes . pose thebuilding in such a form that we might convenientlylodge a number of the best workmen, and skilfulmasters, whether in painting, jewellery, clockmaking,or engraving on stone, as well as in many other ex-cellent arts, as w ell to benefit ourselves through them,and to afford the means of their being employed bysuch of our subjects as have need of their industry,as to create, as it were, a nursery of workmen, sothat, ha\ing served an apprenticeship to skilful mas-ters, many may go hence to be spread everywherethrough the kingdom, capable of titly labouring forthe public. As society advances, the competition ofcapital stands in the place of such royal patronage;but, when the arts are imperfectly patronised becausea taste for them has to be formed in the public mind,such encouragement is the highest wisdom and be-nevolence. The principal facade of the Louvre, commonlycalled The Colonnade of the Louvre, was finishedin 1670, under Louis XIV., by the celebrated archi- r3 186 THE THE LOUVRE. 18 7 tect, Claude Perrault. It is unquestionably a mag:-nificent monument of jxenius. The edifice nowknown by the name of The Old Louvre, was bejrunby Francis I. Of the more ancient palace, which,surrounded by ditches and flanked by massive towers,was in fact a fortress from which the king- of Francemight overawe the Parisians, there are no exact date of the fortress is very uncertain ; andthe very name of the palace is as obscure as its antiquaries state that the word Louvre is de-rived from Liipara, a place fit for the chase of thewolf; others that it is from the Saxon word lower,or lowvear, which signifies mansion, or castle; andothers, that it means Vceuvre, the chef-dceuvre, thework par excellence. Before the eastern facade of the Louvre there wasanciently a ditch of considerable breadth, into whichthe waters of the Seine were allowed to flow, andwhich was crossed at the centre by a drawbridgeleading to a gate.
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