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Definition of Tuileries Palace
1. Noun. Palace and royal residence built for Catherine de Medicis in 1564 and burned down in 1871; all that remains today are the formal gardens.
Generic synonyms: Palace
Group relationships: Capital Of France, City Of Light, French Capital, Paris
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuileries Palace
Literary usage of Tuileries Palace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Court of the First Empire by Claude-François Méneval (1910)
"The resemblance between the stranger and the portrait of the King of Naples which
he had seen in the Imperial Hall at the Tuileries Palace struck the ..."
2. Dicken's Dictionary of Paris, 1882. An Unconventional Handbook by Charles Dickens (1882)
"... X. also lived in the Tuileries palace. Louis Philippe, after he came to the
throne, in 1830, continued the work of restoration inside the Tuileries, ..."
3. The Grenadier: A Story of the Empire by James Eugene Farmer (1898)
"As the clock of the Tuileries Palace struck the hour of one, the noise of
boot-heels, spurs and trailing scabbards was heard upon the staircase, ..."
4. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for the Student by Banister Fletcher (1905)
"The Tuileries Palace, Paris (AJJ. 1564-1572) was commenced for Catherine de
Medici, by Philibert de 1'Orme (AD 1515-1570). Only a portion of one side was ..."
5. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"The Pickle-herring Tragedy has vanished in the Tuileries Palace, toward "pain
strong and hard." Watched, fettered and humbled, as Royalty never was. ..."
6. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"... through many streets in the dusty summer evening; gets itself at length wriggled
out of sight; vanishing in the Tuileries Palace,—towards its doom, ..."
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