Napoleon III Apartments
The richly decorated former Minister of State apartments in the Louvre's Richelieu Wing, named for their Second Empire style.
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The emperor did not live in these rooms, so read them as state reception interiors rather than royal private apartments.
Sources: louvre.fr
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