Tuileries (twē`lərēz, Fr. twēlrē`), former palace in Paris. Planned by Catherine de' Medici and begun in 1564 by Philibert Delorme Delorme or de l'Orme, Philibert (fēlēbĕr`), c.
..... Click the link for more information. , 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. He and his family were brought back there after their attempted flight (1792) and their arrest at Varennes. A few weeks later (Aug. 10, 1792) a mob attacked the palace (see French Revolution French Revolution, political upheaval of world importance in France that began in 1789.
Historians disagree in evaluating the factors that brought about the Revolution.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Napoleon I made the Tuileries his chief residence, as did Louis XVIII, Charles X, Louis Philippe, and Napoleon III. During the Commune of Paris Commune of Paris, insurrectionary governments in Paris formed during (1792) the French Revolution and at the end (1871) of the Franco-Prussian War . In the French Revolution, the Revolutionary commune, representing urban workers, tradespeople, and radical bourgeois,
..... Click the link for more information. of 1871, the palace was destroyed by fire. The spendid formal gardens, laid out by Le Nôtre Le Nôtre, André (äNdrā` lənō`trə), 1613–1700, French landscape architect.
..... Click the link for more information. , remain and are connected to the Louvre Louvre (l
`vrə), foremost French museum of art, located in Paris.
..... Click the link for more information. museum.
..... Click the link for more information. , 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. He and his family were brought back there after their attempted flight (1792) and their arrest at Varennes. A few weeks later (Aug. 10, 1792) a mob attacked the palace (see French Revolution French Revolution, political upheaval of world importance in France that began in 1789.
Origins of the Revolution
Historians disagree in evaluating the factors that brought about the Revolution.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Napoleon I made the Tuileries his chief residence, as did Louis XVIII, Charles X, Louis Philippe, and Napoleon III. During the Commune of Paris Commune of Paris, insurrectionary governments in Paris formed during (1792) the French Revolution and at the end (1871) of the Franco-Prussian War . In the French Revolution, the Revolutionary commune, representing urban workers, tradespeople, and radical bourgeois,
..... Click the link for more information. of 1871, the palace was destroyed by fire. The spendid formal gardens, laid out by Le Nôtre Le Nôtre, André (äNdrā` lənō`trə), 1613–1700, French landscape architect.
..... Click the link for more information. , remain and are connected to the Louvre Louvre (l
`vrə), foremost French museum of art, located in Paris...... Click the link for more information. museum.
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