Royal Palaces and Parks of France

e than that which surrounded the Tuileries from its inception by Charles

tal, and all that remains are the gardens set about with a few marble columns and gilt balls-themselves fragments of former decorative elem

led kings, and others." Even its stones were chiselled as if with a certain malignancy and fatalism, for they have all

ne went straightway to the tomb; one went to the scaffold and three others to exile. A sorry dowr

y it was the same thing; the Tuileries was but a temporary shelter. The s

ileries! Mad indeed are those who enter thy walls, for like Louis XVI, Napol

e sixteenth century. The property, which comprised a manor-house as well as the tile fields, was known by the name of La Sablonnière, and came to the Marquis Neuville d

in 1518 and nine years later gave it to Jean Tiercelin, the M

inous a state that Catherine de Médici, the widow of Henri

n, gave the commission to Philibert Delorme to build a palace, "neighbouring up

al structure was a great circular-domed edifice, enclosing a marvellous Escalier d'Honneur. The fa?ade, preceded by two terrac

g tenaciously to his well-guarded apartments in the Louvre; for the central structure of the Tuileries

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Delorme was practically discontinued during t

nri II. The reign of Charles IX was only another phase of that long reign of Catherine de Médici, and architectural influences continued to follow along the same reminiscent Italian lines, particul

architecture. The palace which you have built at Paris near the Pont Neuf and the Louvre is, acco

and successfully carried out under the arch

amented throughout its length, which, as he says in his written works,

e has to his credit the Chateau d'Anet, the Chateau de Saint Maur, that of Meudon-built for the Cardinal de Lorraine,

d his talents with a royal generosity, even nominating him as Abbé of the Convent of Saint Eloi

aused additions to be made to the Louvre; at least she undertook the compl

is the fête given four days before the fateful Saint Bartholomew's night. It was the marriage f

It had been hurriedly finished off to the second story, and had served well enough for a temporary residence, or as an overflow establishment where balls and fêtes might be given without crowding, but to t

ing to the plans of the architect Ducerceau, but the inspiratio

ble apartments with which it was afterwards endowed. The court at this time practically made Versailles its headquarters. Neither of the abov

painter and a maestro of a musician, organized in the Palais des Tuileries the Theatre des Machines, the first installed at Paris, a

shabby place of royal residence so far as its interior appointments were concerned, though in all ways appealing when viewed from w

convention taking up its sittings under the same roof and forthwith passing an act which allowed the completion of the palace according to the plans of Vignon at an expense of three hundred thou

n waves against its sturdy barrier. The Deputy Féraud met them at the steps. "You may enter only over my dead body," he said. No reply was

auditorium of its kind in Europe, having eight thousand stalls and boxes, wh

onvention. All the names and emblems showing forth in its decorations and indicative of its ancient rule were changed into Republican devices and symbols. The Pavillon de Marsan was call

ctural lines. Surrounding that portion where the legislators actually sat was the great amphitheatre which for three years was occupied by a

t is estimated that more than three million people assisted at what they rig

hardly habitable, and before taking up his residence he w

ite Appartement," which Marie Antoinette had fitted up for her temporary accommodation when in town. Lebrun, however, gave up his lodging to the Pope when the Pontiff came to Paris at Napoleon's orders.

Marechaux,

the entrance: "On August 10th monarchy in France was forever abolished; it will never be restored." By the 20th of February the inscription had disappeared. Besides, orders were given to cut down the two liberty trees which had been planted in the courtyard. On August

he tranquillity of France that the new government should inheri

dour and magnificence in the Palais des Tui

e, the members of which, loaded with decorations, ensigns, and diamonds, trembled in the presence of the Little Corporal of other days; on the other side, the host of th

e. Another event, on account of its peculiar moment, strongly excited the enthusiasm of the French. On March 20, 1811, at seven o'cloc

s Philippe and under the Second Empire. The palace of unhappy memory saw successively the fall of Napoleon, the entry

ts original interior arrangement, and, to a great extent, the decorations wi

d closely the contemporary designs of the adjoining building. Here are quartered executive offices of the Préfecture de la Seine. That portion facin

ries and soon the whole edifice was in flames. Within what may have been the briefest interval on r

Prince President, Louis Napoleon, entered its gates,

y patriot Republican shouted: "Vive Napoleon!" They little knew, li

, the clergy leading the way, followed by the president and his attendants. The orches

paid their respects, and about half a battalion of the army saluted, among them two Mamelukes. While this ceremony was going on, the Place du Carrousel was occupied by several squadrons of cavalry and the inner courtyards were pra

1870, at five o'clock in the afternoon, when the Empress Eugenie received a telegraphic despa

e following day was Sunday; the weather superb; the disaster was finally announced and the masses thronged from all parts to the Pla

could guarantee order. He replied in the affirmative. Some hours later a group of deputies came to the empress and coun

. At three o'clock the imperial dynasty was proclaimed as at an end, and a provisionary government installed. Henri Rochefort,

first launched by the street gamins, soon became the slogan of the crowd. To say it was to do it; the gre

her ladies-in-waiting: "It is then finished." She turned towards the Prince de Metternich a

Madame; in a moment the

ted for the Pavilion de Flore, passing through the Galerie de Musée and the Galerie d'Apol

the empress, but she mounted an empty fiacre with Madame Le Breton, and giving the driver the first address that entered her mind thus escaped further indignities, and p

vans, but this cannot be helped, with due regard for the consensus of French opinion. Doctor Evans was a family friend, besides being the dentist who cared for the imperial te

unmentionable the marble halls, and the furnishings in general, and pillage

the Butte of Montmartre. The orders which he sent forth came to be the signal for another outbreak on the part of the populace. On March 18 the Commune was proclaimed and Citoyen Dardelle, an old African hunter, was appointed military governor of the Tu

e idea of organizing a series of popular concerts in the gardens o

he gold with which these walls were built was earned by your sweat." "To-day you are coming t

of Hégésippe Moreau was read which terminat

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f in hand very well up to this moment, but applauded the verses vociferously. The last of the concerts was held on May 21, the same day a

in the morning it was but a mass of smoking ruins. The Communards had done their work well. Before leaving its precincts they had sprinkled coal oil over every square metre of carpet, window-hangings and ta

he tempestuosity of a people. Finally, in 1882, Monsieur Achille Picard undertook their removal for thirty-three thousand francs,

ming a part of the Tuileries, have been re-erected on the

ce, the Empress Eugenie who lives in England, and Emile Olivier,

stic folk at Lavenue's famous terrace-café, recounted the following incident clothed in most dis

ssed the pavement and passed within the railings of the gardens opposite, one of the gates to which, by chance or prearranged design, was still open. It moved slowly here and there upon the g

ty long years one must have been endowed with su

those of the present generation who have never seen the Tuileries an exact idea of it

cularly with reference to the part played by the Tuileries therein, i

tiful iron gate which separated the Cour du Carrousel from the Cour des Tuileries. Roumanian by birth, French at heart and Parisian by adoption, th

e corresponding with the central pavilion of the palace, the other two having their piers surmounted by colossal figures of victory, peace, history and France. A gateway under each of the lateral galleries also communicated on the north with the Rue de Rivoli, and on the south with the Quai du Louvre. The Place du Carrousel was n

ith flagged areas, gravelled walks and paved road ways, and, while the monumental and architectural accessories excel the

atively disposed clumps of flowering shrubs, the whole combined in such a way that the perspective and vista down the Champs Elysées will in no manner suffer. The architect-landscapist, M. Redon, who has been charged with the work, has drawn his inspiration fr

ever been before the public, but little has actually been changed save the remaking

his walks abroad not too far from the centre of things. The chief curiosity of the garden is the celebrated chestnut tree which burst into flower on the day of Napol

to the area. Some are by famous names, others by those less renowned, but as a whole they make little imp

ns of Babylon, they overlook a lower level of parterres, gravelled walks and ornamental waters. Along the

e hundred toises in length, and one hundred and sixty-eight toises in widt

ottomed chairs to nursemaids, retired old gentlemen with red ribbons in their buttonholes, and trippers from across the channel. It is

al Society that the body was not in the least surprised that a Frenchman should have solved the problem of "volatability." The French monarch, more practical, was so mightily