Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-05
The Old Palace OF Catherine de Medieis,
to be RemoVed-The Curse OF Her
Cruelty
Seemed 10 Hang About 1t, as the People
There Have Vented Their Spleenin
All the Revolutions.

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and imperialism OF which they are forever
rid. The laboripg masses OF the capital
never had the slightest affection for the
Tuileries as an historical memorial. When
ever they have come down into the street for
revolution, they have invariably testi-
/ fed their hatred of the ediice, and al
| though the Commune strongly insisted that
| they burned the palace only to enable them,
under cover of the confusion-to rttreat more
| leisurely during the great fight of May, 1871
\ there Is little doubt that they had marked
| the place for destruction.
| the old palace of Philibert de Lorme and
of Catherine de Medcis has had curiousIy
variegsted destiny. The great Catherine had
| the structure raised on the cite of some "tile-
works" on a tract which bad been called for
| centuries La Sdblonniere. she was tired of
| the gloom of the ancient louvre, in which
she once lived with those children who
| gained such picturesque places in history
| with so little merit of their own-Frapcis II,
/ who was Marie Stuarts husband; Charles
| IN, abou; whom the least said the better;
Henry III, who was King of Poland, and
| Francois d'Anjou, whose chief work OF merit
| was dying 10 make room for Henry Nv.
Catherine had a pleasant dream of Italian
| pomp and Southern magni6cence, which she
could not get in the Louvre, and SO the plans
which she arranged with Philibert de Lorme
| comprised mighty palace with delicious
| gardens, long ranges OF porticos, and walls
| dotted with stat 1es illustrating the deeds
of the Valois and the Medicis. Dut De
Lorme died before he had completed
the facade, and Catheriue's vison was not
realized in her time. Henry ~, whose en-
/ try into Paris Is commemorate on the cell
ing of the chapel, continued what Catherine
had begun, aud Ducerceau, his architect,
| built the pavilion of Flora, which was par
tally reconstructed in Napoleon IIl's time,
and which will doubtless remain standing
for many centuries. Ducerceau, also built
| he quadraugular pavilion, the massive
dome of which was ruined in 1871. Henry
~ never lived in the 1uileries. He liked
the Louvre better, and his widow carried her
| grief 10 the Luxembourg, SO that the Palace
| received only cJrsoTy visits from its royal
own9rs for long time. Richelieu and
Louis XIII clung to the Louvre and the
Palias Cardinal, and Louis XIV had been
king six years before he found il in his heart
to like the deserted and half finished build
ing. He ordered his architects 10 COM
| plete it, and installed there his
cousin, Mile. Montpensier. Now and
then the great king went 10 the palace 10 give
.ries of fe rivals, but his heart was always
at Versailles. II was in the Tuileries garden
that LIE Norie fret conceived the plan of his
1 imposing but tomew bat monotonous gardens
| at Versailles. Lsuis XIV was 80 delighted
| with the architects FIRST sketch of the land
scape garden that he then and there made
! made him a present of 20,000f. Young
/, Louis XIV was fond of the Tuileres when a
| child, bot as soon as be could act for himself
i he fl ID TO Versailles, and the palace again
remained vacant until The Royal Academy
| of Music installed itself therein, and for a
| long lime the only grand opera OF which
I Paris could boast was held in the great hall,
! which Louis XIV had had decorated in
| honor of Moliere's Psyche After the opera
came the G medic Franchise, and on the Both
| of March, 1878, Voltaire was crowned, dur
| ing the representation of Irene at the Tuier-
| lee, in the presence of vast concourse OF the
! Nobility, the great ladies, and the literary
/, people of the time.
voLTAIRE AND THE REVOLUTION.
This, says Arsene Honssaye, in brilliant
monograph ON the history OF the palace, was
the real commencement OF the revolution.
Voltsire, half stifed under flowers at the
| Tuilerles, meant the disappearance of roy
| ally at Versailles under the crushing satire
| of Voltaire." The same writer says: "When
| Louis XVI got 10 the Tuileries after he had
kissed the women Of the people at Versailles,
he foHnd that he had left his crown behind
| him. The queen saw quickly that the king
was no longer king, but she counted ON her
son." Il was to the Tuileries that the As
sembly went in October of 1889 to see the
| young Louis, whom Marie Anioinette brought
in her arms into the great salon 10 present to
the representatives. of the people their
| future sovereign. Ia 1871 the Assembly de-
| creed hat the Louvre and the Tuileries
! together should constitute the national
| palace intended for the residence of
| this king, and for the exhibition of
| all the treasures Of science and art.
| But in June, 1871, the king ran away,
/ and when he was put back into the Tuile-
| ries after his arrest at Varennes, The direc-
| tions concerning him were more like those
L for the aafa Eaaninu of than for
| the maintainance of royalty in its legal
abode. From that time forward, the history
| of the place is stormy one. The jealousy
OF the assembly soon took from Louis his
last relics of royal maguifcence. Then came
| the National Convention, aud Potion, Con-
dorcet, Brieso'. and Vergriand walked in the
halls which had once been reser yed for the
feet of kings.
| In 1898 person presented himself at the
| door of the Convention, "iu the name Of the
| Commune OF Psris," and dem anded that the
| great gardens of the Tuileries should "be
| given over 10 useful cultivation" He wanted
cabbages to replace the roses, and said the
statues and beds of lilies and hedges Of box
| wood should be ssld. Then came the ses-
sious at the Tuileries of the Com mittee of
Public Safety; the festival in honor Of the
Supreme Beiug" in the garden; the crest
| Ninth OF Tkermijor in the hall of the Con-
vention; and then the Reign OF Terror, like
al the other reign, fed away from
the Tuileries, leaving behind but
few traces of its passage. In
1899 there was talk OF raising a
monument to Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the
Tuileries garden. The great citizen of
| Gsneva was 10 be represented residing
from his Social Contract, bat some one sug-
ges,ed that il would be better to comment
crate Voltaire before placing Jean-J acques
on pedestal, and 60 the project was no
| E44 - n al - e I'll
| 1900, Bonapar.e came into the Tuileries
with Josephine, and in 1914 he left il in
company with Marie Louise and the little
King OF Rome. The first fourteen years OF
this century were the palmy ones for the
palace. Under the Second Empire it knew
no such glory as the first Napoleon gave il,
and it was while looking down upon a surg
ing mass OF the people beneath one OF its bal
conizs that he said 10 Benjamin Constant
those memorable words: "Do you know
why these people all salute me? 1t is be-
cause L am the people crowned" After Ma.
poleon came Louis XVIII and Charles \
whose roy altles we're but long series OF
concessions. In July OF 1880 the revolution
swept through the Tuileries, and in Febru.
airy OF lS48 it came there once more.
NAPOLEON III.
In the same year the provisional govern
ment turned the Tuileries into hospital;
but in 1852 the imam on horseback" had ar
rived, and the old palace was definitely
chosen by Napoleon III as his city residence
He was, however, always glad to get away
from 1t TO the breezy nights OF St. Cloud
The little Prince Louis loved the Tuileries
and used 10 play for hours together on the
long elevated terrlee overlooking the Seine
Tins was then a garden reserved for the ex
press use of the imperial family, but hai
long since been thrown open to the public
Many of the rooms which we're inhabited by
the two EmP-rors, Napoleon l and hi
Br1mmsgen successor, were in the wlrgs
which were left comparatively untouched BY
the Commune, and are henceforth 10 be part
! of great museum. The old garden retains
pretty much the same pbysiocnomy that i
! had in the time of Louis XIII. In th'
dissolute times of the r geucy, and ever
in Louis XIV's days, il was the fashioE
to sup in the garden, and there Marian
Delorme, whom Hugo has immortalized il
, his charming drains, and Ninon de Lenclo
J once held ephemeral courts. The old statues
some of which are little moss grown, arr
decidedly out of place in this modern CAPT
tai, not especially renowned for lis sculp
. lures The marble allegoricaI and myiho
logical figures will probably some day b
} swept away by the march OF improvement
J indeed, it is possible that The whole public
!, part of the garden will be built over a
. Paris becomes more and more crowded.
Keep Clear or Personalities
u Keep clear of personalities In general con
. versation. Talk Of things, objects, thoughts
the smallest minds occupy themselves will