The urban legend, that pyramid has 666 panes of glass, dates back to the 1980s, two decades before it was repeated in the da Vinci Code.

The Louvre Pyramid was commissioned François Mitterrand, designed by Chinese-born American architect Ieoh Ming Pei, and completed in 1989.

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 Go to the index page of pictures of the musée du Louvre.