"So this is the Louvre Museum, the foremost of the world's four great museums?"
That evening, Aaron arrived at the set of The Phantom of the Louvre, where Sophie Marceau was filming. They were inside the Louvre Museum itself.
The world's four great museums were the Louvre Museum in France, the British Museum in the United Kingdom, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States, and the Hermitage Museum in Russia. All were comprehensive museums combining archaeological artifacts and works of art, with collections spanning ancient Egypt and the Near East, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, art from the Renaissance onward, and Eastern art represented by China and India, among other categories. Their exhibitions were vast in scale!
Sophie Marceau nodded. "We're mainly in the Egyptian Antiquities Department. The crew comes in to film after the museum closes at night."
Aaron had just passed through the Eastern Antiquities Department and sighed. "Nothing beats stealing it!"
The Louvre Museum displayed a vast treasure trove of historical artifacts, dating from 7000 BC to the mid-nineteenth century.
In 1991, UNESCO even designated the banks of the Seine River in Paris, including the Louvre Museum, as a World Cultural Heritage site.
Sophie Marceau smiled. "So, do you want to look around somewhere else? There's hardly anyone here at night."
Aaron pulled the woman into his arms. "Now I understand how films are made in France. At the pace your movie is being shot—"
"The scenes inside the Louvre will probably take three months to finish, right?"
The French were simply too relaxed. Aaron had only come to visit the set, but after several hours, it felt as though the crew had done no real work at all!
Sophie Marceau kissed him. "You have to know how to enjoy life while working. Hollywood's pace is just