Louvre boss warns of closure risk without major renovations

• Speaking to Le Figaro, Christophe Leribault said that the museum intended to tap private sources of funding for its transformation, but that a major injection of public money would need to be approved after national elections next year.
• "Whoever forms the next government must keep in mind that if the Louvre is not repaired, updated, and transformed, it will very quickly fall behind and will eventually have to close its doors to the public.
• Successive minority governments in France have struggled for years to pass annual budgets and current Prime Minister Seba