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	The Tuileries Palace
		The palace was formed by a series of long, narrow buildings with high roofs that created one major and two minor courtyards.
		The great Louis XIV resided at the Tuileries Palace while Versailles was under construction.
		This impressive piece of furniture which was designed by the architect Charles Percier is embellished with several bronze ornaments: the central panel depicts the "Birth of the Queen of the Earth to whom Cupids and Goddesses hasten with their Offerings" by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, after a sculpture by Chaudet.
	www.georgianindex.net /Napoleon/Tuileries/Tuileries.html (469 words)

	Tuileries Palace
		Tuileries became the meeting place of the National Convention, the group of 371 deputies that were to create a new constitution for the country.
		The name of the palace was actually changed from Tuileries Palace to le Palais National, thus showing how quickly this building became home to the new national government.
		The Tuileries was also well known for its gardens which were a major gathering place for artists and musicians, as well as about every other Parisian.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/hist255-s01/mapping-paris/Tuileries_Palace.html (227 words)

	Tuileries Palace information - Search.com
		The Palace of the Tuileries served again as the official residence of the executive branch of government after the coup d'état by Napoléon III in 1852; when President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte became Emperor Napoléon III he moved from his presidential office at the Élysée Palace to the Tuileries Palace, ushering in the Second Empire.
		During the Second Empire, the Tuileries Palace was extensively refurbished and redecorated after the looting and damages that occurred during the Revolution of 1848.
		The Tuileries Gardens (French Jardins des Tuileries) are surrounded by the Louvre (to the east), the Seine (to the south), the Place de la Concorde (to the west) and the Rue de Rivoli (to the north).
	www.search.com /reference/Tuileries_Palace (1827 words)

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	loans-trading.info /palace/legends-at-the-imperial-palace.php (1994 words)

	Discover Paris! - March 2006 - A Queen, Her Palace and Her Garden
		In the February issue of Paris Insights, we wrote of how Catherine de Medici's move to the Tuileries provided the impetus for the development of the nearby Place Vendôme. This month, we explore her inspiration for the construction of a splendid abode, the Tuileries Palace, and the adjacent Tuileries Garden.
		The area in which the palace and garden were built was in the shape of an elongated trapezoid.
		Today, the Tuileries Palace is gone, but its presence can be sensed as one stands in the gap formed by the Marsan and Flore pavilions, which, in effect, are vestiges of the great residence.
	www.discoverparis.net /A-queen-her-palace-and-her-garden.html (1203 words)

	Jardin des Tuileries - Great Public Spaces \| Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
		Tuileries Palace encloses the western end of the Louvre and the formal seventeenth century gardens that make up the central-most park in Paris, stretching from the Louvre to the Place de Concorde, and bordered by the Seine.
		Louis the XVI and Marie Antoinette were held prisoner in the palace, after being routed from Versailles during the French Revolution, and the siege at the Tuileries by the Parisian mob at the close of the revolution in 1893 left a thousand dead.
		The Tuileries Gardens were one of the first to open to the public, and have served as a proto-type for public gardens across Europe.
	www.pps.org /gps/one?public_place_id=364 (361 words)

	The Tuileries
		There are ghosts and to spare in the beautiful Tuileries gardens, east of the Place de la Concorde, with their trees and their statues and their subtle suggestion of that Parisian life which is unlike the life of any other city.
		It was in the Tuileries that Napoleon and Haussmann planned the rebuilding of Paris, and the rebuilding made the fortune of every inhabitant of the palace, from the great officers of State to the scullery maids, with the sole exception of Haussmann and the Emperor.
		It was on September 3, 1870, that the news came to Eugenie as she stood on the little staircase in the Tuileries reaching from her husband's study to her rooms, that Sedan was lost and Napoleon a prisoner.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles04/paris3.shtml (2184 words)

	Jardin des tuileries - Tourism in Paris - visit paris and its parks and gardens
		In 1664 LE NOTRE redesigned it in the French style and opened the perspective up to the west, which was to become the Champs-Elysées.
		The Carrousel garden was created at the end of the 19th century on the site of the Tuileries Palace- burnt down during the 1871 Commune.
		The current layout of the Tuileries is set around a wide central avenue marking the perspective of the long main route that today extends from the Louvre to the Great Arch at la Défense.
	www.paris-prestige-en.net /parks-gardens-paris/tuileries-garden.php (0 words)

	Pictures of the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, France (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Palace of the Tuileries served again as the official residence of the executive branch of government after the coup d'état by Napoléon III in 1852; when President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte became Emperor Napoléon III he moved from his presidential office at the Élysée Palace to the Tuileries Palace, ushering in the Second Empire.
		During the Second Empire, the Tuileries Palace was extensively refurbished and redecorated after the looting and damages that occurred during the Revolution of 1848.
		The Tuileries Gardens (French Jardins des Tuileries) are surrounded by the Louvre (to the east), the Seine (to the south), the Place de la Concorde (to the west) and the Rue de Rivoli (to the north).
	www.vinc3nt.com /paris/placesofinterest/tuileries/index.htm (1678 words)

	Discover Paris! - April 2006 - How the Carrousel Garden Got Its Name
		Both the palace and the garden were located to the west of the Louvre and just outside of the city wall built by Charles V. To the east, there was just enough space between the rampart and the palace for Catherine de Medici to plant another garden called the Petit Jardin.
		With the destruction of the wall, the Tuileries Palace and the Tuileries Garden were incorporated into the city, and a new city wall, built at the western edge of the garden, formalized this state of urban development.
		A royal grandstand was erected along the eastern boundary of the Tuileries Palace and its façade was hung with tapestries.
	www.discoverparis.net /How-the-carrousel-garden-got-its-name.html (1210 words)

	Rebuilding the Tuileries Palace - Wired New York Forum
		PARIS — The destroyed Tuileries Palace, once home to French kings and emperors, could be rebuilt after the French government formed a commission of eminent historians and politicians to draw plans for its restoration.
		The Palais des Tuileries was built for Catherine de Medici in 1564.It was gradually extended over three centuries until it spanned 300 yards to link the north and south wings of the Louvre museum.
		Years later, in 1882, the republican government passed a law at Parlement stating that the remains of the Palace will be put to groung level before rebuilding it the way it was or in a more basic version.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=10316 (908 words)

	Denise's Den
		In 1364, the transformation from royal fortress to royal residence was begun with the remodeling of the interior apartments.
		After the death of Charles VI in 1422, no work was done on the palace for a whole century.
		Two new wings were added and connected to the Tuileries palace, creating a square design with an open courtyard in the middle.
	denisesden.blogspot.com (1167 words)

	Jardin des tuileries - Paris site touristique - Tourisme et visiter paris
		Les jardins des Tuileries et du Carrousel sont d'une surface de 280 000 m² et sont depuis 1991 intégrés au Grand Louvre.
		Créé à la fin du XIXème siècle à l'emplacement du palais des Tuileries, incendié en 1871, le jardin du Carrousel vient d'être redessiné par Jacques Wirtz et reconstruit sur dalle au-dessus des galeries du Louvre.
		Le plan des Tuileries s'organise autour d'une large allée centrale marquant la perspective du Grand Axe qui s'étend du Louvre à; la Grande Arche de la Défense.
	www.paris-prestige.net /parcs-jardins-paris/jardin-des-tuileries.php (294 words)

	Hotel des Tuileries - OFFICIAL SITE - Paris charming Hotel Concorde
		The Hotel des Tuileries enjoys an exceptional location in the heart of Paris between the Jardin des Tuileries, the Louvre museum and the Royal Palace.
		Centrally located and easily accessible, the Hotel des Tuileries is an authentic 17 th century residence.
		Central et facilement accessible, l'hôtel des Tuileries est une authentique demeure du XVIII siècle il fut la propriété de la première dame de Marie-Antoinette qui y a séjourné avec Louis XVI.
	www.parishoteldestuileries.com (274 words)

	Paris Pages Kiosque; The Tuileries Gardens; A Short History - September 1996
		Imagine a large, rather cumbersome palace that resembled the Louvre and formed the eastern edge of the side of the garden.
		Since the Tuileries Palace was in the parish of the church Saint-Germain-Auxerrois, Catherine packed her bags, took her furniture and left.
		The palace and the gardens were to be their universe until the most dramatic day of the French revolution - August 10, 1792 when the bells of Paris rang in every working class neighborhood and the people stormed the palace in anger.
	www.paris.org /Kiosque/sep96/tuileries.html (0 words)

	The Gardens Of The Tuileries
		It seems that about the year 1563 Catherine de Medici had decided to build herself a palace a little distance to the west of the Louvre, which was to serve her as her own private residence.
		However, you need not look for the Tuileries Palace today, as it is no longer in existence, having been burnt out along with the connecting gallery during the Commune of 1871.
		Both the palace and the gardens derived their name from the tile kilns which had long occupied this area.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles03/paris6.shtml (2904 words)

	Storming of the Tuileries Palace (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After firing a few rounds into the crowd the guards realized their efforts were worthless and quickly chose to surrender the palace in the hopes of saving their lives.
		The people found no king inside the palace, but murdered anyone within the walls that might have been associated with the king: cooks, servants, maids, etc., no one was spared.
		As early as June 20, 1792 several crowds of French citizens traveled to the Tuileries Palace in an attempt to convince the king that the government, economy, and society of France needed to change.
	www.pccua.edu /keough/new_page_7.htm (449 words)

	Tuileries Palace Details, Meaning Tuileries Palace Article and Explanation Guide
		King Louis XIV resided at the Tuileries Palace while Versailles was under construction.
		One of the artists, Pierre Paul Prud'hon's (1758-1823) most splendid commissions was to design the apartments of the new Empress, Marie-Louise, in the Tuileries Palace.
		The Swiss Guards stationed at the palace, aware of what happened in 1792 to their predecessors, abandoned the palace., aThe Tuileries was never again used as a royal residence.
	www.e-paranoids.com /t/tu/tuileries_palace_1.html (722 words)

	Tuileries — FactMonster.com
		It was rarely used as a royal residence until 1789, when Louis XVI was forced by the revolutionists to move there from Versailles.
		Napoleon I made the Tuileries his chief residence, as did Louis XVIII, Charles X, Louis Philippe, and Napoleon III.
		of 1871, the palace was destroyed by fire.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0849645.html (117 words)

	Grand Louvre, Louvre
		At almost the same time (1564 onwards), after the death of Henri II, the Tuileries Palace was built as a residence for his widow Catherine de Médicis only 500m/550yds west of the Old Louvre (along the present Avenue du Général-Lemonnier).
		In the reign of Henri IV this palace was linked by the long south wing along the Seine, the Galerie du Bord de l'Eau, with the Petite Galerie.
		Both the Louvre and the Tuileries were occupied only for short periods, and after Louis XIV moved his residence to Versailles they fell into such a state of dilapidation that in the mid 17th century consideration was given to their possible demolition.
	www.planetware.com /paris/louvre-grand-louvre-f-p-gl.htm (1071 words)

	Art Lovers' Paris
		The vista continues as you enter the Tuileries gardens, named after the clay earth here that was used to manufacture tiles until Catherine de' Medici bought the land to make a park to improve the view from her Tuileries Palace.
		Because the river turns slightly after the Pont Royal, the Tuileries Palace and garden were offset from the plan of the Louvre Palace to follow the alignment of the embankment (since the old city wall separated the two palaces in the middle of the 16th century).
		He commissioned Pierre Lescot to modernize the palace in the Renaissance style of the day, and over the years, right up to the time of Napoleon III (1878), improvements and extensions were made by a succesion of about 11 architects to what was soon one of the most imposing palaces in Europe.
	www.stargonaut.com /chamvist.html (1776 words)

	André Le Nôtre - Seven garden revisited - The Tuileries
		After the building of the Tuileries Palace between 1659 and 1665 by the architect Le Vau, the work begun in 1666 under the direction of André Le Nôtre would totally change the disposition and the limits of the garden.
		With the terrace of mulberry bushes constructed to the north under Henri IV, the new terraces provide the change in level that was missing from this flat terrace.
		The whole is harmonized with the architectural lines of the palace now shown to their advantage.
	www.lenotre.culture.gouv.fr /culture/celebrations/lenotre/en/ja/tu/tem03.htm (323 words)

	Khaleej Times Online - France’s next “grand projet” — a royal palace?
		They were all rebuilt except the Tuileries — despite a promise from the government of the day,” said Alain Boumier, 68, a civil engineer and second empire enthusiast who is the plan’s prime mover.
		The palace, which included a theatre and a long gallery for receptions, was mainly ignored by the royals until the dramatic events of 1789 when Louis XVI was forcibly brought back to Paris from Versailles.
		The palace — renamed the Palais de la Nation — then became the seat of the revolutionary Convention through the Terror; after that it was the home of Napoleon, the kings that followed him, and finally the emperor Napoleon III whose reign ended in humiliation and war in 1870.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/todaysfeatures/2006/November/todaysfeatures_November34.xml§ion=todaysfeatures (786 words)

	Napoleon
		During the night of 1/2 December, 1804, there was some light snowfall, and workmen hurried to brush it away from the surroundings of the Tuileries Palace and the procession routes, covering the bare with salt.
		At the entrance to the archbishop's palace (over which had been erected a reception tent for the carriages), the pope was met by the Archbishop of Paris, the Cardinal du Belloy.
		The emperor and the empress, and their cortège, returned to the archbishop's palace to change their robes and to rest after the ceremony.
	www.napoleon.org /en/reading_room/timelines/files/sacre_day.asp (1182 words)

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