Guardians of the Louvre few days later, on a Tuesday when the Louvre is closed, he is transported to Paris in 1939 during the evacuation of the museum at the start of World War II. The man learns about the difficult process, which was led by Jacques Jaujard, including the transport of the "Mona Lisa", "The Raft of the Medusa", and the "Winged Victory of Samothrace". On his final day in Paris, the man visits the tomb of Philippe Pot, and reunites with his own dead wife Keiko. The Louvre commissioned Taniguchi to create the manga as part of The Louvre Collection, which features
Louvre machete attack Louvre machete attack On 3 February 2017, an Egyptian national in France on a tourist visa was shot as he rushed a group of French soldiers guarding a principal entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, attacking and injuring one soldier with a machete. The soldiers were patrolling the museum as part of Opération Sentinelle, guarding the Carrousel du Louvre, in which an underground shopping mall also serves as a gift shop, ticket sales office, and public entrance to the Museum. The attacker, identified as Abdullah al-Hamahmy, was confirmed by French authorities to have shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the