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A treasure of the Sun King soon to be displayed under the glass roof of the Grand Palais: book your tickets now!
Seven days only, some thirty carpets on display, a royal setting resurrected: enter the legend of the Sun King, under the majestic glass roof of the Grand Palais. Ticketing is now open!
A historic event, finally visible
This is a historic first! The monumental carpets commissioned by Louis XIV for the Grande Galerie du Louvre will be reunited and presented under the glass roof of the Grand Palais from February 1 to 8, 2026. Never before has this national heritage treasure been unveiled in a space worthy of its monumental ambition. This is therefore a historic and unprecedented opportunity to admire these works in a setting that reveals all their richness and symbolic power.
The Sun King's lavish project
In 1668, as Louis XIV prepared to make the Louvre his residence, he entrusted painter Charles Le Brun with a titanic project: to create a set of 92 monumental carpets to cover the floor of the palace's most majestic gallery. Woven at the Manufacture de la Savonnerie, the carpets measure up to nine meters wide and form a spectacular decor, among the most ambitious ever conceived for a royal palace. But the project never came to fruition: the carpets were never installed in the Louvre and were gradually dispersed over the centuries. Revolutions, sales, changes of regime... Today, 41 original carpets remain, 33 of them complete, preserved by the Manufactures nationales.
A rendezvous with French history, at the Grand Palais
Gathered together for the first time, in the Nave of the Grand Palais alongside a carpet created for the Galerie d'Apollon, these carpets offer a show of rare magnificence.
Book your tickets: only one week to admire these jewels of French heritage in a spectacular setting.
