How do you pronounce Louvre? You’re almost certainly doing it wrong (for someone)

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How do you pronounce Louvre? You’re almost certainly doing it wrong

Elyne Le Faou Contributor October 28, 2025 — 7.00pm

France is once again in the spotlight. The Louvre , the Lecornu government , the imprisonment of Nicolas Sarkozy , the world’s eyes are fixed on these names that, each in their own way, have marked or are marking our country’s history. Yet while these names sometimes manage to cross France’s borders, they rarely make it past the borders of language itself.

We French must admit we share part of the responsibility: the language of Moliere is not the easiest to master, even for those who speak it every day. What has caught my attention in recent years, however, is beyond the fact that learning foreign sounds is never easy, it’