NGO stages protest in Louvre against museum's oil ties

AFP English 2018-03-12

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The Louvre briefly evacuates one its busiest rooms after black-clad environmental activists staged a protest against oil giant Total's patronage of the Paris museum. About a dozen protesters lay down on the floor in front of "The Raft of the Medusa", an iconic 19th-century painting by Theodore Gericault showing the shipwreck of a French navy frigate.

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