Some rests...
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Parc Monceau,
Paris 17,
Paris architecture,
Tuileries
Walking close to Parc Monceau yesterday, I incidentally found what you can see above, more or less hidden in the front yard of a building. I wondered what it could be and asked a “concierge”, who did not know. I managed to find out, again thanks to Google. What we can see are some remains from the former Tuileries palace.
Maybe a short recapitulation about the Tuileries palace:
The Tuileries gardens that we visit today were the gardens of a royal palace that was burnt during the so called “Commune”, a popular, anti-royalist (communist, anarchist, socialist?) government which lasted a few weeks) in 1871. The ruins remained there for another 11 years before it was decided to demolish what was left. Bits of stones and marbles were then sold as souvenirs and you can find some of them also elsewhere in Paris, e.g. in the Trocadero gardens.
The building of this palace was started by Catherine de Medicis, widow of Henry II, around 1560. It was enlargened in different steps and finally reached its final form only a few years before it was burnt. It then made a complete fourth side of the present Louvre.
The palace which was used by Louis XIV before Versailles was completed was also the center for a lot of events during and after the French revolution (Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were forced there from Versailles) and Napoleon and his successors used it as residence. (Where you can see some trees on this picture, is now more or less where you can find the "pyramide").
The major part of the furniture, paintings etc. was saved from the fire, as they had been brought in safety in 1870, due to war. There is now a discussion ongoing to rebuild the palace “as it was” and bring all furniture and paintings back and also to allow more space for the Louvre museum.
Maybe a short recapitulation about the Tuileries palace:
The Tuileries gardens that we visit today were the gardens of a royal palace that was burnt during the so called “Commune”, a popular, anti-royalist (communist, anarchist, socialist?) government which lasted a few weeks) in 1871. The ruins remained there for another 11 years before it was decided to demolish what was left. Bits of stones and marbles were then sold as souvenirs and you can find some of them also elsewhere in Paris, e.g. in the Trocadero gardens.
The building of this palace was started by Catherine de Medicis, widow of Henry II, around 1560. It was enlargened in different steps and finally reached its final form only a few years before it was burnt. It then made a complete fourth side of the present Louvre.
The palace which was used by Louis XIV before Versailles was completed was also the center for a lot of events during and after the French revolution (Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were forced there from Versailles) and Napoleon and his successors used it as residence. (Where you can see some trees on this picture, is now more or less where you can find the "pyramide").The major part of the furniture, paintings etc. was saved from the fire, as they had been brought in safety in 1870, due to war. There is now a discussion ongoing to rebuild the palace “as it was” and bring all furniture and paintings back and also to allow more space for the Louvre museum.
