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
Paris in the Belle Époque way across Paris from Boulogne to Vincennes in 1856. But then it was purchased by the CGO, the main omnibus line, and remained simply a curiosity. Only in 1873 did the tramway begin to gain importance, when the CGO lost its monopoly on city transport and two new companies, Tramways Nord and Tramways Sud, one financed by Belgian banks and the other by British banks, began operating from the center of Paris to the suburbs. The CGO responded by opening two new lines, one from the Louvre to Vincennes, the other following the line of fortifications around the city. By