Royal Palaces and Parks of France

or entry into Paris it was the custom to command a gift by right from the inhabitants. In 1389 Isabeau de Bavière, of dire memory, got si

the privilege of having him live among them, those of the professions and craftsm

sely. The constructions of this epoch were so numerous and imposing that Corneille

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ouis XVI that the faubourgs were at last brought within the city limits. Under the Empire and the Restoration but few changes were made, and wi

to the walls of Charenton, was a gigantic garden, a carpet embroidered with as varied a colouring as the tapis

, and above it rose the observatory of the savant like a signal tower of the Roma

determinate" region! How changed, indeed! There i

France. A single apartment of the old palace of the Romans exists to-day-the old Roman Baths-but nothing of the days of the Emperor Constantius Chlorus, who founded the palace in honour of Julian who was proclaimed Emperor by his soldiers i

fe of modern times. The first is something a good deal more than an art museum, and the latter more than the reside

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conception of Marie de Médici's, it is difficult to follow the suggestion, as the architect, Jacques Debrosse, one of the ablest of

, a conception, or elaboration, of the original edifice by Chalgrin, in 1804, under the orders of Napoleon. The garden front,

uc de Piney-Luxembourg, Prince de Tigry, who built it in the sixteenth century. From 1733 to 1736 the palace underwent important restorations and the last persons to inhabit it be

the Palais du Directoire, and, before the end of the century, the Palais du Consulat. This was but a brief glory, as

ers of the Préfecture of the Seine, and finally, as to-day, the Palais du Luxembou

Napoleon's "Cabinet de Travail," the "Salle des Pas Perdus"-formerly the "Salle du Trone," the Gr

f the Senate and dates also from the time of Marie de Médici. The picture g

he daintiness of the Petit Luxembourg, but, for all that, it presents a certain dignified

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One has no means of knowing this with certainty, but it is assumed; at any rate the Legitimists are a very numerous class in the neighbourhood. Another class of childhood to be seen here is that composed of the offsprings of artists and professors of th

ildren of the gardens of the Luxembourg from those of the Tuilerie

rather mediocre, statues are posed here and there between the palace and the observatory at the end of the long, tree-lined avenue which stretches off to the south, the

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s romantic enough, bordering as it does upon the real Latin Quarter of the students. Bounded on one side by the

of sculptured details, was the house bought by Louis XIV about 1672 and given to the "widow Scarron," the "young and beautiful widow of the court," as a recompense for the devotion with which

aintenon, the "vraie reine du roi," died in 17

the domestic establishments, the dwellings of kings, with which contemporary Paris was graced. It was but a creation of Mazarin, the minister, on the site of the H

demies. The black, gloomy fa?ade of the edifice, to-day, in spite of the cupola which gives a certain inspiring digni

pedestal of one of the fountains

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alais de l'Institut is one of the sights of Paris, and its functions are notable, though hardly belonging to the romantic school of past days, fo

Girardini for the Dowager Duchesse de Bourbon in 1722, and, though much changed during various successive eras, is still a unique variety of architectural embellishment which is not uncouth,

national property the outlay has been constant. Everything considered it makes a poor showing;

"Salle des Séances," and the "Salle des Conferences"-where,

old Palais Bourbon, where deputies howl and shout and make

at this throne also served Louis Philippe under the Second Empire, and also was used under the Monarchy of July. It was after the momentous "Quatre Setembre" that it wa

French Republic and is thus classed as a national property. Actually, since its construction, it has changed its name as often as it has changed its occupants. Its first occupant was its builder, Louis d'Auvergne, Comte d'Evreux, who built himself this grea

ever had much respect for her son's choice as she

e into the proprietorship of La Pompadour, who spent the sum of six hundred and fifty thousand livres in ag

mbed and curled like the poodles in the carriages of the fashionables in the Bois to-day. The quadrupeds, greatly frightened by the flood of light, fell into a panic, and the largest ram among them, seeing his duplicate in a mirror, made for it in the tradit

erty up to the day when Louis XV bought it as a dwelling for the ambassadors to his court. Its somewhat rest

architect Boullée, who also re-designed the gardens. Thanks to Beaujon, the wonderful Gobelins of to-day were hung upon

e mother of the Duc d' Enghien, who died so tragically at Vincennes a short time after. The duchess renamed her new possession

ern which arranged balls and other entertainments for the pleasure of all who could afford to pay. Its name was now the Hameau de Chantilly, and, consi

t up to his departure for Naples, when, in gratefulness for past favours, he gave it to Nap

rest which he so much needed, the throng meanwhile promenading before the palace windows, shouting at the tops of their voices "Vive l'Empereur!" though, as the world we

became again the Elysée-Bourbon. The duchess ceded the palace to the Duc and

of the long list of establishments whose maintenance devolved upon the Civil List,

ber, as the last preparations were being made by Louis Bonaparte for the Coup d' état and the final strangling of the young republic, the residence of the president was transf

f the Third Republic, the Elysée Palace again became

, beginning with the national anthem of America and finishing with that of France. Never had a private citizen, a foreigner, been so received by the first magistrate of France. The toast of President Fallières was as follows: "Before this repast terminates I wish to profit by the occasion offered to drink the health of Monsieur Theodore Roosevelt, a