MCDONALD’S + LOUVRE = MCLOUVRE?

Tert.am
13:50 05.10.09

Lovers of France’s two great cultural symbols – its haute cuisine and
fine art – are aghast at plans to open a McDonald’s restaurant and
McCafé in the underground approach to the Louvre museum, known as the
Carrousel du Louvre, next month, reports the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph.

The notorious American fast food chain is celebrating its 30th
anniversary in France with a coup: the opening of its 1,142nd Gallic
outlet a few yards from the entrance to the country’s Mecca of high
art and the world’s most visited museum.

The chain faces a groundswell of discontent among museum staff,
many already unhappy about the Louvre lending its name and works to
a multi-million pound museum project in Abu Dhabi.

"This is the last straw," said one art historian working at the
Louvre, who declined to be named. "This is the pinnacle of exhausting
consumerism, deficient gastronomy and very unpleasant odours in the
context of a museum," he told the Daily Telegraph.