Tuileries Palace
The Tuileries Palace was a royal palace in Paris which stood on the right bank of the River Seine. The palace served as the residence for French monarchs, from Henry IV to Napoleon, until it was burned by the Paris Commune in 1871.
History[edit | edit source]
The original palace was built in 1564 under orders of Catherine de' Medici, widow of King Henry II of France,[1] who found the Louvre too small to serve as the royal palace.[2] She was keen to express her Florentine heritage with the palace, using Italian Renaissance style in the architecture.[1] The Tuileries were later united with the Louvre by Henry IV.[2] In 1664, King Louis XIV had landscape architect André Le Nôtre redesign the gardens, as he had done with Versailles previously.[1]
Over the centuries, the Tuileries' garden would become much like an amusement park,[2] the highlight of which came on 27 August 1783 when physicist and chemist Jacques Charles led the world's first manned hydrogen balloon flight, accompannied by aeronauts and engineers Anne-Jean and Nicolas-Louis Robert.[1]
On 10 August 1792, at the height of the French Revolution, the palace was stormed by the Parisian mob, and King Louis XVI and his family were forced to flee and take shelter in the National Assembly. During the ransacking of the palace, the Assassin Arno Dorian infiltrated the residence to retrieve the King's correspondence with Honoré de Mirabeau, the Assassin Mentor, on behalf of the Assassin Council. Napoleon Bonaparte, a lieutenant in the French Army, also searched for the King's secret chamber in the palace to find an Isu key, and the two joined forces to escape from the revolutionaries.[3]
During the 1871 Paris Commune, the palace burned down.[1]
Gallery[edit | edit source]
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The palace during the siege -
A painting of the Tuileries under siege
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Assassin's Creed: Unity
- L'Armoire de Fer (mentioned only)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 L'Armoire de Fer
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: Palais des Tuileries
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – The King's Correspondence