Louvre Come Back to Me! is a 1962 Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...

 cartoon

Cartoon

A cartoon is a form of two-dimensional illustrated visual art. While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works...

 directed by Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones

Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio...

. It is the last Pepé Le Pew

Pepé Le Pew

Pepé Le Pew is a fictional character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons, first introduced in 1945. A French skunk that always strolls around in Paris in the springtime, when everyone's thoughts are of "love", Pepé is constantly seeking "l'amour" of his own...

 cartoon (not counting revivals and appearances in 1980s and 1990s shorts).

Plot

In Paris, Pepe is strolling and causing a disturbance with his fumes. At one point Penelope is walking with a ginger cat and Pepe's stink causes the ginger cat to faint and Penelope to spring in the air getting her back on a fresh white-painted flagpole before she falls right into Pepe's arms. As Pepe introduces himself, Penelope scurries away.

Pepe chases Penelope into the Louvre, the ginger cat following. Pepe's smell ruins some of the sculptures (and corrects a Statue of Liberty-esque sculpture into the Venus de Milo

Venus de Milo

Aphrodite of Milos , better known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture. Created at some time between 130 and 100 BC, it is believed to depict Aphrodite the Greek goddess of love and beauty. It is a marble sculpture, slightly...

!). Pepe thwarts the ginger cat's ambush attempt (due to the smell causing the cat to turn white- making him look like the sculptures -and his whiskers, teeth, tail and nose to fall off, which the cat sweeps up before leaving the scene) and terrifies Penelope in the sculpture galley, even as he paints her picture, she scurries away again.

The ginger cat pumps himself with air in an attempt to hold his breath while he confronts Pepe. Pepe plays along the confrontation as a duel, miming a miss and a defeat. The ginger cat in the meantime suffocates (changing color as he does so; blue, then green, then red) and puffs out all the air he held in, launching himself into the Hall d'Armour in the process. Pepe wonders where everyone has gone to and immediately picks up on where Penelope went (The whole sequence is left out in Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island

Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island

Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island is a 1983 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animated bridging sequences, hosted by Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales...

).

Pepe finds Penelope hiding in the Air Conditioning machine and traps her in it with himself. Pepe's fumes spread through the Louvre spoiling various works of art (even causing the Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa is a portrait by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is a painting in oil on a poplar panel, completed circa 1503–1519...

to talk).