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 | | 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. |
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