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Tuileries| Gardens in the centre of Paris, on the site of a former residence of the French sovereigns. There are two museums: L'Orangerie and Jeu de Paume. The gardens were planned by the landscape gardener André Le Nôtre. |
| The palace of the Tuileries was begun 1564 by Philibert de l'Orme, at the order of Catherine de Medici. The site chosen had been a tileworks (French tuilerie). The building was the seat of executive authority during the French Revolution, and the emperor's residence during the empire. It was burned by revolutionaries during the Commune of Paris, and afterwards the remains were demolished. |
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| Then he kept silence, folded his arms tightly across his breast, and took up his station under the portico which serves as an avenue of communication between the garden and the court-yard of the Tuileries. His heart was full of pity, but he took care to keep his eyes fixed on the trees in the Tuileries gardens, lest he should see the monster's face. But the cream- coloured house (supposed to be modelled on the private hotels of the Parisian aristocracy) was there as a visible proof of her moral courage; and she throned in it, among pre-Revolutionary furniture and souvenirs of the Tuileries of Louis Napoleon (where she had shone in her middle age), as placidly as if there were nothing peculiar in living above Thirty-fourth Street, or in having French windows that opened like doors instead of sashes that pushed up. |
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