Paris 2024, the Olympic flame goes through the Louvre

The path of the Olympic Flame has also passed through the Louvre. We are now in the run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics , which will begin next Friday, July 26, and for the French national holiday, July 14, the flashlight, symbolizing the fire of Olympia, was brought to the Louvre: from the Pyramid of Pei to the banks of the Seine, the Olympic Flame of Paris 2024 passed through some of the museum’s most emblematic courtyards and rooms in the arms of its torchbearers.

The flame also stopped in front of the Mona Lisa, Nike of Samothrace and Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People . Among the torchbearers was also French artist JR, known for his installations that “break through” the buildings on which they are hung (in 2016 he also intervened on the Pyramid of Pei), who received the Olympic flashlight just outside the Louvre, passed to him by Sandra Laoura, a French freestyle skier and bronze medal winner at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. The artist then entered the Louvre with the flame and in turn passed it to make the rounds in the museum, where it was led by dancer Marie-Claude Pietragalla. The flashlight itself, by the way, is a work of French designer Mathieu Lehanneur. Having finished its journey to the Louvre, the flashlight then moved to the Centre Pompidou.

Departing last May 8 from Marseille, where it arrived from Greece (it was lit by the sun’s rays in a ceremony held on April 16, 2024 at the Temple of Hera in Olympia), the Olympic flame touched 450 cities in France before arriving in Paris. Below is a gallery of images of the Olympic flame at the Louvre.

Paris 2024, the Olympic flame goes through the Louvre

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