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The Louvre: Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa painting, in the Louvre Museum. Photo ©  Teresa Plowright.
Photo © Teresa Plowright.

Of course the Louvre's most famous inhabitant is Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece," La Gioconda", better known as "Mona Lisa": even the most anti-museum kids will be eager to see this painting.

One might wonder, though, why people are thronging around this particular masterpiece...

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