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The Tuileries Palace (French: Palais des Tuileries, IPA: [palɛ de tɥilʁi]) was a royal and imperial palace in Paris which stood on the right bank of the Seine, directly in the west-front of the Louvre Palace. It was the Parisian residence of most French monarchs, from Henry IV to Napoleon III, until it was burned by the Paris Commune in 1871.
The pavilion was originally built in 1666, based on a design by Louis Le Vau. [1] The exterior was similar to that of its southern pendant, the Pavillon de Flore.On its south side, the Pavillon de Marsan was connected to Le Vau's pavilion for the stage of the Théâtre des Tuileries, completed in 1661.
The Théâtre des Tuileries (French pronunciation: [teɑtʁ de tɥilʁi]) was a theatre in the former Tuileries Palace in Paris. It was also known as the Salle des Machines , because of its elaborate stage machinery , designed by the Italian theatre architects Gaspare Vigarani and his two sons, Carlo and Lodovico. [ 1 ]
The Tuileries Garden (French: Jardin des Tuileries, IPA: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ de tɥilʁi]) is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Created by Catherine de' Medici as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was opened to the public in 1667 and became a public park after the ...
The central part of the Palais des Tuileries intervened to block the line of sight to the west. When the Tuileries was burned down during the Paris Commune in 1871, and its ruins were swept away, the great axis, as it presently exists, was opened all the way to the Place du Carrousel and the Louvre.
With the fall of the Tuileries, the face of Parisian society underwent an abrupt change. The August insurrection greatly increased sans-culotte influence in Paris. Whereas the old Commune had been predominantly middle class, the new one contained twice as many artisans as lawyers—and the latter were often obscure men, very different from the ...
It was then annexed into the Musée du Luxembourg and formally renamed the Musée National de l’Orangerie des Tuileries. [ 3 ] The Water Lilies – The Clouds , 1920–1926, Claude Monet , one of Monet's eight large oil-on-canvas murals displayed in two oval rooms in the museum
The River Seine is just out of sight to the left in this 1981 image of the Quai du Louvre, with the Quai des Tuileries beyond. The Quai des Tuileries is a quay on the right bank of the River Seine in Paris, France, along the stretch close to where the Palais du Louvre and the Quai François Mitterrand is situated, in the 1st arrondissement. [1 ...