Tuileries Garden

The Jardin des Tuileries is one of Paris’s great formal gardens, and its name still points back to the tile-making workshops that once occupied this ground. Catherine de’ Medici had the Tuileries Palace begun here in 1564, and the garden was laid out to match the new royal residence. In the 17th century, André Le Nôtre reshaped it into the grand French-style garden you’re walking through now, with long axes, clipped symmetry, and broad gravel walks. What makes this place so evocative is that it outlasted the palace itself. The Tuileries Palace was destroyed in 1871 during the upheaval of the Paris Commune, but the garden remained, opening onto the city as a public promenade rather than a royal enclosure. Today, the Jardin des Tuileries stretches between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde, with fountains, statues, and those formal terraces that have defined this site for centuries. …

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