It's impossible to overstate how cheap this is, but I think you have to actually go The Louvre to understand that. It's enormous.

(In comparison Versaille is absolute bullshit that everyone should just skip. IMO).

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ebiester 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I really enjoyed the garden there - we spent hours happily. And we don't have a lot of palaces where I'm from.

And I didn't really enjoy the Louvre, especially compared to Musée d'Orsay and Centre Pompidou.

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karmakurtisaani 28 minutes ago | parent [-]

Louvre get sort of boring, since the time period they cover stops at the time when art gets more and more interesting (mid 1800s). Before that every painting is basically Jesus or boobs.

Still well worth a visit definitely.

	▲	orwin 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		But then you have all the Egyptian wing no?

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kccqzy 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah I made that mistake when visiting Paris for the first time: budgeted half a day for the Louvre and an entire day for Versailles. Should the other way around or as you say, skip the Versailles.

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throw-the-towel 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As far as French palaces go, I liked Fontainebleau way more.

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stackedinserter 23 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

TBH the most interesting thing in Louvre is that crowd in front of Mona Lisa, which is an art performance by itself.