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	Tuileries Palace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tuileries were later stormed on August 10, 1792 by the Paris mob, who overwhelmed and massacred the Swiss Guards; the royal family fled through the gardens and took refuge with the Legislative Assembly.
		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.
		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).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tuileries (1704 words)

	Tuileries Palace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		King Louis XIV resided at the Tuileries Palace while Versailles was under construction.
		His garden designer André Le Notre laid out parterres for the Tuileries in 1664, but when the King left, the building was virtually abandoned.
		This impressive piece of furniture which was designed by the architect Charles Percier was 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, after a sculpture by.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Tuileries (773 words)

	Project for Public Spaces (PPS) \| Great Park Places: Jardin des Tuileries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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 /upo/greatplaces/one?public_place_id=364 (243 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)

	All you want to know about the Tuileries garden in Paris by Paris Digest, the Paris Internet city guide and portal
		It stretches its "à la française" alleys and lawns along the Seine river from the Louvre museum to the Concorde square.
		Recently renovated and totally separated from car traffic, the Tuileries garden is part of a spectacular and historic perspective from the Louvre palace to the Arc de Triomphe on a straight line which includes the Champs Elysées and the Concorde square.
		The Tuileries garden is close to the metro station Tuileries on line 1.
	www.parisdigest.com /takingarest/parcdestuileries.htm (267 words)

	Tuileries - Wikipédia
		Henri IV décida alors de relier le palais du Louvre et celui des Tuileries en créant deux galeries, une par le sud et une au nord.
		Le palais des Tuileries fut incendié pendant la Commune en 1871, et les ruines de celui-ci furent rasées en 1880, ne laissant que deux pavillons.
		Depuis 2003, une association, le comité national pour la reconstruction des Tuileries, s'est constituée, ayant pour objet la reconstruction du palais des Tuileries.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tuileries (691 words)

	Tuileries Palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tuileries were later stormed on August 10 1792 by the Paris mob who overwhelmed massacred the swiss Guards; the royal family through the gardens and took refuge with Legislative Assembly.
		Napoleon came into power he made Tuileries official residence of the first consul and the imperial palace.
		As Napoleon's chief residence Tuileries Palace was in the Neoclassical Empire style by Percier and Fontaine and some of the best known designers and furniture makers of the day.
	www.freeglossary.com /Tuileries_Garden (948 words)

	Storming of the Tuileries Palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		At this original meeting the king met with the people and assured them that he was on their side.
		After killing numerous Swiss guards and other staff present at the Tuileries Palace, the Paris mob moved to the Legislative Assembly building and claimed their prize.
	www.pccua.edu /keough/new_page_7.htm (449 words)

	TUILERIES. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Planned by Catherine de’ Medici and begun in 1564 by Philibert Delorme, it occupied part of the present Tuileries gardens.
		It was rarely used as a royal residence until 1789, when Louis XVI was forced by the revolutionists to move there from Versailles.
		During the Commune of Paris of 1871, the palace was destroyed by fire.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/tu/Tuilerie.html (125 words)

	Tuileries Palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Shebegan the building of the palace of Tuileries in 1564, using architect Philibert de l'Orme.
		They triedto escape on the evening of June 20, 1791, butwere captured at Varennes and were returned to the Tuileries.The Tuileries were later stormed on August 10, 1792.
		The Tuileries Gardens (French Jardins des Tuileries) are surrounded by the Louvre (to theeast), the Seine (to the south), the Place de la Concorde (to the west) and the Rue de Rivoli (to the north).
	www.therfcc.org /tuileries-palace-82605.html (513 words)

	André Le Nôtre - Seven garden revisited - The Tuileries
		A wide passage was opened through the terraces of the bastion in the axis of the garden, which was framed by the double ramp of the Horseshoe.
		From 1665, Louis XIV and Colbert began the planning for the prolongation of the central allée of the Tuileries Garden beyond the walls.
		This avenue of the Tuileries forms a patte d’oie (radiating intersection) with the Cours la Reine, the promenade set up along the Seine in 1616, and a third path just barely sketched in.
	www.lenotre.culture.gouv.fr /culture/celebrations/lenotre/en/ja/tu/esp034.htm (316 words)

	The Tuileries Palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tuileries stood on the right bank of the River Seine in Paris.
		The great Louis XIV resided at the Tuileries Palace while Versailles was under construction.
		Tuileries Palace served as the royal residence after the Restoration.
	www.georgianindex.net /Napoleon/Tuileries/Tuileries.html (469 words)

	Paris - The Tuileries
		All Parisians upwards of forty-five must remember the Palace perfectly, for it was not destroyed until 1871, during the Commune, and it was some years after that incendiary period before all traces were removed and the gardens spread uninterruptedly from the Carrousel to the Concorde.
		The Palace of the Tuileries (so called because it occupied a site previously covered by tile kilns) was begun in 1564 and had therefore lived for three centuries.
		The Tuileries was a happy enough palace, as palaces go, until the Revolution : it then became for a while the very centre of rebellion and carnage; for Louis XVI.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles28/paris-8.shtml (3238 words)

	Tuileries - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Tuileries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The palace of the Tuileries was begun 1564 by Philibert de l'Orme, at the order of Catherine de Medici.
		It was burned by revolutionaries during the Commune of Paris, and afterwards the remains were demolished.
		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.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Tuileries (245 words)

	Tuileries Palace -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		French Palais Des Tuileries, French royal residence adjacent to the Louvre in Paris before it was destroyed by arson in 1871.
		The lower part, toward the Place de la Concorde (and beyond, the Tuileries Gardens), is surrounded by gardens, museums, theatres, and a few...
		Louis's resistance to popular demands was one of the causes of the forcible transfer of the royal family from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace in Paris on October 6.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9073704?tocId=9073704 (871 words)

	Discovering Dickens - A Community Reading Project
		The Palace of the Tuileries (or, in French, Palais des Tuileries), which no longer exists, was erected by Catherine de Medici in 1564 as a royal residence (Tronchet 95); until the period of the French Revolution, however, it was only sporadically occupied by French monarchs.
		The space between the two buildings – joined now on the river side – was, “with the exception of the court-yard in front of the [Palais des Tuileries], … occupied at the time of the [French] Revolution, and down to nearly the middle of the [19th] century, by a labyrinth of narrow streets” (Baedeker 151).
		The Palais des Tuileries, the Louvre, and the warren of little streets between them are all visible on this portion of the Plan de la Ville de Paris en 1789, which maps pre-revolutionary Paris.
	dickens.stanford.edu /tale/issue5_gloss3.html (2579 words)

	Paris MYSTERIOUS : The Tuileries gardens - History and description - Paribestlodge
		Named after the medieval warren of tilemakers that once occupied the site, the Tuileries gradens are all that survive of the palace and grounds commissioned by Catherine de Medicis in the mid-sixteenth century.
		The first serious replanting was carried out after the revolution, and in the ninetieth century, rare species were added to the garden, by this time dominated by chestnut trees.
		Unfortunately, the December 1999 storms which ravaged northern France, stripped the Tuileries gardens of some of its oldest trees : the centennial chestnuts around the two central oval ponds are now the most senior.
	www.parisbestlodge.com /tuileries.html (306 words)

	Metropole Paris - The Tuileries Gardens
		By the time it occurred to her to join her château to the Pavillon de Flore with a 'grand-gallery,' the work on the château had advanced by two years - and it was built on an axis different to that of the Louvre.
		This also got her kicked out of the Château de Tuileries, putting her first on a long list of tenants who had to leave it in a hurry.
		Their cortege passed through Concorde, through the Palace de Tuileries, to the Salon Carré of the Louvre, where their marriage was celebrated.
	www.metropoleparis.com /1997/70728230/tuileri.html (2179 words)

	Flowers and Trees \| Musée du Louvre
		On November 21, 1990, President François Mitterand appointed the landscape specialists Pascal Cribier and Louis Benech to remodel the Tuileries, and Jacques Wirtz for the Carrousel.
		Ieoh Ming Pei, the architect of the Grand Louvre, was appointed to oversee work on the Terrasse des Tuileries, and to ensure the visual coherence of the garden schemes in relation to the Cour Napoléon and the Pyramid.
		The maximum height for trees in the Tuileries gardens is fixed at 2.2 meters.
	www.louvre.fr /llv/musee/fleurs_essences.jsp?bmLocale=en (786 words)

	Berlioz in Paris - Tuileries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Palais des Tuileries was joined to the Louvre on the southern side by the Galerie du Louvre.
		He removed the small street and in its place constructed broad stairs which formed a terrace, and opened up onto an esplanade from which it was possible to take in at a glance the whole of the palace.
		On March 26, 1871, the Paris Commune was proclaimed and the looting of the Tuileries began.
	www.hberlioz.com /Paris/BPTuileries.html (585 words)

	III. The Tuileries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Versaillais, under the leadership of Douay, concentrated on destroying the barricades defending the Tuileries.
		The gardens house a café, art exhibits, and several playgrounds, and there are sculptures based on Greek mythology surrounding the central fountain.
		This may be because of the Tuileries' location between three major monuments (the Louvre, the Obelisque from the Tuileries, and the Vendôme Column), but most of the people there seemed to be rushing along.
	www.angelfire.com /ny3/commune/tuileries.html (304 words)

	Hôtel des Tuileries - 3 Star Hotel - Arrondissement 1 - Paris
		between the garden of Tuileries, the Louvre and Orsay museums and place Vendôme, in the heart of historical Paris.
		RER B to "Chatelet-les-Halles" station, then métro line 1 to "Tuileries" station.
		RER B to "Chatelet-les-Halles" station, then métro line 1 to "Tuileries" station or take the Roissy bus which takes you to Opéra.
	www.parisby.com /tuileries/pages/reach.htm (116 words)

	Tuileries Apartment in Paris, France - Regent Suites
		It is a 2 minute walk to the Louvre, very close to the Place de la Concorde, the Palais Garnier (Opera house), the Palais Royal and the Place Vendome which leads into the fashionable street of Faubourg Saint Honore with its famous "haute couture" shops (Chanel, Dior, Yves St Laurent, Hermes, etc) and art galleries.
		The subdued colors, the artworks adorning the walls enhance the charm and refinement of this sophisticated Parisian Apartment.
		Clients are strongly recommended to ensure that they have suitable travel insurance arranged at the time of booking.
	www.regentsuites.com /paris_properties/tuileries.htm (375 words)

	Tuileries and Opera
		Parallel to the Jardin des Tuileries are two of Paris's foremost shopping streets, the rue de Rivoli and rue St-Honoré, full of expensive boutiques, booksops and five-star hôtels.
		It lies between the Opera and the river, bounded by the vast Place de la Concorde in the west and the Louvre to the east.
		These gardens have replaced the Tuileries Palace, that burnt down during the 1871 Paris Commune unrest, leaving only the real tennis court, the Jeu de Paume, which is now used for contemporary art shows, and the Musée de l'Orangerie.
	www.franceway.com /regions/idf/tul.htm (484 words)

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