Louvre Palace

Fig. 1-1 Frieze from the palace of Assyrian king Sargon II, in Khorsabad (in modern-day Iraq), depicting two priests. Note the poppy heads carried by the priest on the right. 8th centu BC. Musee du Louvre, Paris, Antiquites orientales. Photograph Service de documentation photographique de la Reunion des Musses Nationaux, Chateau de Versailles. (Reprinted from Lydia Mez-Mangold, A H/story o/Drugs, F. Hoffmann-La Roche. Co., Ltd, Basle, Switzerland, 1971, with permission).

Contemporaries described the palace of the Louvre as toute la structure imprime le respect dans I esprit des peuples. 

In 1882, the city of Paris installed a system for the distribution of electricity for lighting comprising a combination of dynamos and lead—acid batteries. The first electrically lit street was Grands Magasins du Louvre in Paris ( the city of lights ). In 1883, Plante supplied the Imperial Palace of Franz Josef in Vienna with stationary and portable equipment for lighting. 

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