First Sunday of the month: the best and the worst of the Louvre and a suggestion for solving the free entry dilemma

National museums in France are free on the first Sunday of the month. (Incidentally, this could be set to change: extending free opening was one of Sarkozy’s manifesto promises. But the government has clearly got cold feet about this and for now it looks as if it may only be extended to 18-26 year olds [...]