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Tuileries Hist. (ˈtwiːləriː, ‖ tɥilri) [Fr., so called because built on the site of an ancient tile-works: see tuille, tuile.] A palace in Paris begun by Catherine de Medici in 1564 and destroyed by fire in 1871. It stood on the site between the Champs Elysées and the Louvre, now occupied by the Jardin des Tuileries, and was a residence of the court in royal and imperial France: hence, the royal or imperial family, the court, the administration.
1814M. Birkbeck Journey through France 81 Every paragraph in the public journals is modelled and pared down to suit the temper of the Tuilleries. 1863[see politesse]. 1885H. James Little Tour in France xi. 80 The gardens..are the promenade—the Tuileries—of the town [sc. Bourges]. 1967Listener 25 May 678/1 By the end of the next decade, [Victor] Hugo..had become..the tame poet of the Tuileries. 1972T. Aronson Queen Victoria & Bonapartes x. 126 The coolness between Windsor and the Tuileries. |