"The Louvre is like the morgue; one goes there to identify one’s friends."
— Jean Cocteau

January 1, 1970

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Variant: The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. — As quoted by Roger Shattuck in "A Native Son of Paris", Jean Cocteau and the French Scene (1984)