"One of the biggest museums in the world, which is in a deplorable state of disrepair," says Louvre employee and union representative Elise Muller, denouncing "leaks, no heating and a lack of toilet facilities" at Paris' famed museum. Alarm was widely raised about the Louvre's state after a memo from the museum's director Laurence des Cars, in which she expressed her concerns, was published in Le Parisien newspaper. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES