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Louvre staff block entrances as part of French pension protest
Workers of the culture industry demonstrate outside the Louvre Museum Monday, March 27, 2023 in Paris

THE Louvre Museum in Paris was closed to the public today after workers took part in the wave of French protest strikes against the government’s unpopular pension reform plans.

Dozens of Louvre employees blocked the entrance, prompting the museum to announce it would be temporarily closed.

The demonstrators carried banners and flags in front of the Louvre’s famed pyramid demanding the repeal of the new pension law that raises the retirement age from 62 to 64.

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