Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-09-23

The Tuilleries, having long been
the principal imperial palace in Par
is, has always been a place of great
interest TO the public. Queens have
lived within its magnificent apart
ments, mobs have rioted through
them. and courtezans have held
their revels hithin them. Its walls
have echoed back the music OF
laughter and the means of the dy-
ing. Its floors have been covered
with costly carpets and with human
blood. 1t is palace OF contrats-
sort of royal and republican thea
tire, alternately, in which life-dramas
are acted in earnest.
Less than two months ago the
principal characters with the Tuil-
leries were Napoleon, Prince Louis
and Eugenie. But they have gone
and their imperial retinue have
gone with them. The French Court
has been scattered before the anger
of another revolution. Now in
place of court ladies and gentlemen,
citizens sans culottes roam through
the apartments of the palace at
their will. But, no wonder that the
Palace of the Tuilieries has such
varied history. 1t was built by
Catharine de Medicis. whose name
is execrated by the good and bad
alike, and whose baseness proves
how deep tits possible for woman
to fall when she once gives herself
over to sin. Over three hundred
years have elapsed since she began
this famous palace and during that
time the most startling and terrible
transactions have transpired within
its walls; but none of them can
equal the Internal GOODNESS with
which CATHERINE de Medicis prepar-
ed ballet, in the balace, eight year
after the foundation were laid. which
she knew was to follow, a few days
afterwards.
When the cable dispatches brought
the intelligence that the mob was
rioting through the palace of the
Tuilleries, destroying portraits of
the Imperial family. and everything
which gave Il suggestion of Napol-
con, it seems to us as though the
old tragedy of 1892, so well known
in history, was being re enated
when the mighty struggle of the
French Revolution began, when
Louis XVI. was condemned to death
by government which committed
fearful crimes in the name of Liber.
ty. and sacked the palace of tile
Tuilleries, rs place to be forever
hated.
At last man appeared who gave
4 new coloring to the history of
Francc.-Napoleon /. took up his /
residence at the Tuilleries, and no !
mob dared disturb him. Subse /
quently, in 1890, when Charles Y.
was on the Throne of France revol- |
ution again ragged in Paris, and again
the mob hobled through the I'uil-
leries, until Louis Philippe, then
Duke of Orleans, was proclaimed
King by the Chamber of Depcties
Then Luis Philippe occupied the
Tuilleries. Bat when he became
unpopular. and the revolution of
1913 broke out again the mob in
vaded the imperial palace. And now
that Napoleon III. has fallen from
his height of power the mob again
entered the Tuiileries, finding spec
cial pleasure in venting their rage
and detestation for Imperialism b.
the pa'ace.
Napoleon III. expended over five
millions of dollars on the palace of
the Tuillerics while he was Emperor
Of France, in connecting in with the
palace of the Mouvre. 1t was pro-
badly the most magnificent royal
residence in the world.-But mag
nidcent as it was, its name had an |
tumble origin" Tuilleries being be-