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The Olympic flame at the Louvre Museum in Paris on July 14, 2024
The Olympic flame at the Louvre Museum in Paris on July 14, 2024
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Place de la Bastille, Notre-Dame de Paris, the Louvre… The torch crisscrossed the streets of the capital on Sunday.
A prestigious route, in the middle of the national holiday of July 14. Twelve days before the launch of the Games, the Olympic flame crisscrossed the streets of Paris on Sunday July 14. Champs-Elysées, Luxembourg Gardens, Place Vendôme… “The flame will travel to many iconic places on this national holiday”the organizers of Paris 2024 stressed on the social network X. She began her journey at the end of the July 14 military parade, before reaching the Champs-Elysées in the hand of Thierry Henry, coach of the French Olympic football team.
At the end of the day on Sunday, the flame passed through the heart of the Louvre museum, briefly rubbing shoulders Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix, made in 1830.