The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-05-27

We give below sketches of the sew
eral buildings reported destroyed byth'
Paris insurgents. One or two described
are not mentioned in the dispatches
but their proximity to the Tuileries aut
Hotel de Vile renders it more thar
probable that if they have not been de
molished they have, at least, been bad
ly injured by the shells.
THE TUILERIES.
The history of the Tuileries begin:
with the attic of Philibert Delorme
Catherine de Medicis ordered that the
Palais de Tournelles, where Montgom
cry had killed Henry H., her husband
should be demolished. Dem olished il
accordingly was. The widow Of Henry
ii. with her children then went to the
Louvre-the old Louvre. Her children
were Francis H., husband of Mary
Stuart; Charles TX, the assassin OF
helpless Huguenots and composer oi
bad rhymes; Henry I'LL, who became
King Of Poland; Francis d Anjou, who
gained the famous battle Of Jarnac, and
who died to leave his throne to Henry
", first King of France and Navarro.
The old Louvre could not contain the
Italian pomp Of the bad, bold daughter
of the Medicis, and Catherine had a
chateau constructed on the ground,
where in olden times all the tiles (tmiles)
of Paris were manufactured. Hence the
name Tuileries. According to the plans
of Philibert Delorme, the architect
of Catherine, the Tuileries were TO be a
palace-a true palace Of the Nalois,
with royal frontage, delicious gardens,
magnificent courts, numbers of portl-
coes-everything, in fact, to denote the
power of the Valoirs and the Medicis
combined. Philibert Delorme stopped
at the facade, and died; but before his
death he had the good fortune to behold
that attic which for centuries afterward
was to be the pride Of the occupants OF
the Tuileries.
Henry ". continued what Catherine
had commenced. Androuet Ducerceau
took up what Delorme had left off.
The gallery near the water was erected
bv the oruer Of the best King France
ever had. He, who had been Hugue-
not, but becoming a Catholic, said The
Tuileries is well worth mass" Hence
the ceiling of the chapel Of the TulIer-
les came to represent the entrance OF
Henry ". into Paris Ducerceau built
the Pavilion de Flore. Ducerceau fol-
lowing his fancy, made a dome where
Philibert Delorme had made cupalo.
But all this time no King lived in the
Tuileries. 1t was a royal palace, but
not palace where the Kings resided.
The Valois did not live there. No more
did Catherine of Medicis, who held
her court in the Louvre. Henry ",
did not live in the Tuileries, for his
apartment was also in the Louvre,
where Paris could be overlooked. After
his death Marie OF Medicis, his widow
went weeping crocodile tears TO her
palace Of Luxembourg, where her sleep,
| ing chamber may yet be seen as she
| left, unless, indeed the Vandals who de
molished the Column Vendome have
played fury with that also. Richelieu
on mis- advent to power, built what he
thought to be an imperishable monu
ment of French unity. If he could
have seen the Commune Of 1871! The
old fox like to cause a commotlon
among bricks and marbles as well as
he did in the councils Of nations. lie
erected the Palais Richelieu, which was
to become afterwards the Palais Royal
But the proud Priestking did not oc
cupy the Tulieries. His eyes were fixed
npon the Louvre, where dwelt his plant
tool, Louis XIII. Nor did Louis XIV
remain in the palace Of the Tuileries
His mother, Anne OF Austria, famous
for her love intrigues with the vain
conceited Duke OF Buckingham-hC
who was game for Feton's knife-Annt
of Austria took up her residence in the
palace of the Cardinal, then several
years under ground. The Tuileries re
mained deserted. But in 1860, when
LOUIS XIV. had reached his twenty
second year and had been King six
wears, he was taken with a caprice to
| live in the Tuileries. What easier for
him than to order his architects, Levan
and Dorbay, TO take up the work o.
Philibert Delorme, Of Bullant and Of
Ducerceau, 10 finish the palace which
had been commenced by Catharine
continued by his ancestor Henry ~,
and neglected by his father, Louis
XIII? Ducerceau had only adorned
the middle pavilion with Ionic and Cor
intbian orders. Levau did more, much
more. He did not know that there
would be a Commune in 1871! The
cousin Of the King, the Princess o.
Montpensier, was the first Of the royaI
family to inhabit the Tuileries. Another
pavilion was built in front of the Pavil
ion de Flore. In fact, the whole ofthe
Tuileries was somewhat changed in as
pect. Ducerceau corrected Philibert
! Delorme and Jean Bullant. Leyau anc
Dorbay corrected Ducerceau, who wa'
in his turn corrected by Fontaine
Louis Phillips architect.
Louis XIV, who then (happy times
carried France in his pocket, woulc
now and then show the light Of hi
countenance in the TuilerieE but Yer
sailles was the place where the granc
monarch generally sbone forth; Yer
sailles, where but lately the Prussiar
spiked helmets bristled under his roya
nose. But when there was an end 0
Louis XIV. his son, young Louis XIV
became for time the occupant Of tb'
Tuileries, while the regent celebrate
his famous orgies Of the Palais Royal
As soon as Louis XIV. was Old enough
however, to have things his own way h