Tileries

Garden of Tileries

the garden of Tileries is most important and oldest Jardin with the Frenchwoman of Paris. It extends from west in is, of the Place of the Harmony to the Louvre, and of the south in north, the the Seine to the Rue of Rivoli.

This garden was planted by Catherine de Médicis as from 1564, at the moment when the construction of the palate of Tileries started. It was traced with Italian: six alleys in the direction length and eights in the direction of the width delimited rectangular compartments including/understanding of the different plantations (solid masses of trees, quincunxes, lawns, floors of flowers…). A fountain, a menagerie and a cave ornamented the garden, to which an orangery and a magnanery at the beginning of the XVIIe century were added.

In 1664, Jean-Baptiste Colbert ordered that the garden was entirely redrawn by André Ours, which had been already illustrated with Be worth-the-Viscount. This one gave to the garden the aspect which it was going to preserve, in its broad outlines, until our days: he bored in the axis of the palate a delimited central alley, in the east by a round basin, the west by an octagonal basin; he built the terrace of the Edge of water along the quay and the terrace of Breaking into leaf along the future street of Rivoli; finally, it builds two terraces along future the Place of the Harmony like two slopes in curve making it possible to reach it.

Many marble statues in addition decorated the garden. In 1719, the main entrance was flanked of two statues of Antoine Coysevox representing Mercure and the Fame overlapping a winged horse.

In 1783 the first rise of people in a balloon with gas took place. A plate, located today on the right while entering the garden, marks the memory of this event.

Under the Revolution, the garden was the witness of the great events whose palate was itself the theater. The round basin was used for the ceremony To be it supreme (June 8th, 1794). One had placed effigies there representing the Atheism surrounded of the Ambition, Selfishness, the Discord and False-Simplicity. Maximilien de Robespierre put fire at it, in an apotheosis of cries and applause. The procession moved then towards the Field-of-March. October 10th, this same basin accommodated the coffin of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, draped of a cloth strewn with stars (exhumed of Ermenonville to be carried in the Pantheon). Nowadays, for the tourists and walkers, of many Chaise S are placed free at the disposal in all the park. It is also to note that the large wheel of Paris, formerly present on the Place of the Harmony, was installed in the garden of Tileries, with some steps of the Rue of Rivoli. Today, it is again place of the Harmony. Temporarily? Close to the triumphal arch of the Carousel, the second basin of the garden is. A hirer out allows the children to make sail small sailing boats which often are wedged under the water jet.

The garden accommodated the tests of sword Olympic Games of summer of 1900.

During the II World war part of the garden was transformed into kitchen garden because of the lack of supply during the occupation.

The gallery of Jeu de Paume is a museum of contemporary art located at the North-East of the garden.

Internal bonds

Palate of Tileries

External bonds

Plane and sights satellite:
to promote the memory of the Castle and the Garden of Tileries

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