Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris
"A masterly account. . . . A notably intelligent book which on its own  terms contributes as much to our understanding of cultural life in the French  Revolutionary period as did, for an earlier period, Thomas Crow's Painters and  Public Life in 18th-Century Paris."  --Giles Waterfield, Burlington Magazine"A very successful book, which should appeal as much to students of  French history or the history of ideas as those concerned with the history of  arts and museums."  --Christopher Greene, Social History