"The Louvre palace and museum belong to the history of poetry. Malherbe, in his most famous poem, "Consolation to Monsieur Du Pâerier", spoke of the "barriers of the Louvre". Baudelaire, in "The Swan", declares: "Also in front of this Louvre an image oppresses me. " This entire masterpiece could be read as an invocation of a palace-museum in metamorphosis in the heart of a Paris in transformation, of a 19th century that is being invented with the museum. Apollinaire was also involved in the Louvre, and many others after them"--

Antoine Caro has headed the French publishing house Éditions Seghers since 2021.
Edwin Frank was born in Boulder, Colorado, and educated at Harvard College and Columbia University. He is the editorial director of the NYRB Classics series and the author of Snake Train: Poems 1984–2013 and Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel.
Donatien Grau serves as Head of Contemporary Programmes at the Louvre Museum.
Laurence des Cars has been the director of the Louvre Museum since 2021.