Paris Flooding Reaches Highest Peak in Decades, Louvre Closes Down to Protect Art

Waters from the Seine River in Paris continued to spill over the city’s streets closing down landmarks like the Orsay Museum and the Louvre on June 3.

A photo taken on June 3, 2016 shows waters of the river Seine rising on the statue of the Zouave at the Alma bridge in Paris. The rain-swollen river Seine in Paris reached its highest level in three decades, spilling its banks and prompting the Louvre museum to shut its doors and evacuate artworks in its basement. Parisians were urged to avoid the banks of the river which was expected to reach a peak of six metres (19 feet), while deadly floods continued to wreak havoc elsewhere in France and Germany. / AFP / JOEL SAGET Photo credit should read JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images

Boxes containing valuable artworks from the Louvre reserves on June 3, 2016. Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP/Getty Images