Jardins du Carrousel
Les Jardins du Carrousel occupy the void left by the disappearance of the Tuileries Palace.
Catherine de Medici, widow of King Henry II, erected a sumptuous palace in the Tuileries, both close and separated from the Louvre which is the royal residence since Francis. The construction of this palace started in 1564 at the site of three tile factories established before the Louvre since 1372. Enlarged under the successive reigns, the palace had a huge front (266 m long) and was the royal residence of many rulers (Henry IV, Louis XIV, Louis XVI or Louis XVIII) and Imperial (Napoleon and Napoleon III).
In the foreground, Chateau des Tuileries and the Tuileries, in the background, the Louvre
burnt by rioters in the Commune of 1871, the palace Tuileries was razed in 1883. By 1872, many petitions and requests were filed for the restoration of the palace, in whole or most of it.
Explanatory Video:
http://www.linternaute.com/video/87870/faut-il-reconstruire-le-palais-des-tuileries/
To learn more about the old Palace Tuileries:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_des_Tuileries
To learn more about the old Palace Tuileries:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_des_Tuileries
Carrousel gardens consist of two beds that frame the yew bushes radiating from the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel; they contain 18 statues made by the sculptor Maillol.
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These gardens are named after a memorable parade horse. For 5.6 and 7 June 1662 Louis XIV is organizing a grand carousel to celebrate the birth of his son. After a ride through the streets of Paris, the riders, grouped into quatrains referring to each part of the world, burst on a wide sandy square in front of the Louvre. The king, dressed as a Roman emperor, is hosting the Persians led by Mr. (the eldest brother of the King), The Turks led by the Prince de Conde, the Americans under the thumb of the Duke of Guise and Indians commanded by the Duke Enghien. The sumptuous costumes, made from fabric embroidered with silver and gold, inlaid with precious stones and coral and embellished tiger skins, astonish the spectators. This equestrian ballet remains memorable point forward his name to the square where it occurred.
On this site, Napoleon I must erect a triumphal arch in honor of the Grand Army, victorious at Austerlitz. Copied from the ancient arch of Septimius Severus in Rome, was built from 1806 to 1809. As a culmination, the sculptor Frederic Lemot imagine the emperor standing on a chariot led by the Victory and Peace. Napoleon refused this allegory is harnessed to the chariot and the famous horses of St. Mark before in Venice. After their return to their hometowns, Percier sets up a copy of horses and a figure of the Restoration.
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The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is a monumental entrance to the Tuileries Gardens.
Tuileries Gardens
To decorate the Palais des Tuileries, Catherine de Medici is a plot Italianate park. We see the fountains, a maze, a zoo, an aviary and even a cave glazed earthenware decorated with animals. Henry completes an orangery and a silk factory where we raise silkworms, this park is the promenade of fashion: this is the first time a part of nature is dedicated to stylish living, until then confined inside castles and mansions.
Later, in 1664, Colbert (Comptroller General of finnances of Louis XIV) gives the beautification of the park at Le Notre, famous gardener of Louis XIV to whom we owe the development of the park and gardens of Versailles. To catch up the slope, Le Nôtre longitudinal student two terraces of unequal heights. He also created the magnificent view of the aisle, the big dig ponds and landscape beds and ramps horseshoe. Colbert's work is successful if he wants to reserve the park for the royal family, but his chief clerk, Charles Perrault (the famous storyteller) successfully pleads the cause of the public is invited to enter with respect. The large crowd that gets in there major festivals extolling the royal power.
Spatial Tuileries Gardens was completed in 1853 by the construction of the Orangerie in 1861 by the Jeu de Paume.
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Since 1 January 2005, the Tuileries are within the scope of the Grand Louvre. Covering 28 hectares, is the oldest and largest public garden in the city of Paris.
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The Tuileries Garden is full of memories. The vicissitudes of history and major public events have left their footprints in the heart of the alleys and groves: destruction of the palace at the time of the Commune, successive wars - the vegetable garden grew during the Second World War - but also of the Ascension first hydrogen balloons in 1783, the first motor show in 1898 or proof of swords at the Olympics in 1900. Over time, the Tuileries Gardens and was a guarantor of any a legacy, making its green theater joy, madness, misery or honor, as this stops the coffin of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, covered with a sheet full of stars, which floated on the water round basin before entering the Pantheon. Changing their role at the whim of times, but while maintaining their aesthetics, the Tuileries have in turn decorated with a famous royal garden, then walk for aristocrats and worldly audience, before becoming a haven of greenery open to all .
Excerpt from the poem "The Tuileries "Victor Hugo:
... Our two lordships
Go Strolling Tuileries
willingly
And say things
For pink maids
Under the chestnut trees.
Under the shadows green
Ramps
We wander deserted at night,
Water leaking roofs smoke
The chandeliers light up,
In the black castle.
Our soul collects
What
said sheet at the end of the day,
The air sings a gnome. And
Place Vendome,
The sound of the drum. The white statues
enough scantily clad,
discover their breast, And make us
Whose dream signs
swans
On the big pond.
... To find the complete poem ...
http://www.sculfort.fr/articles/litterature/poemes/hugotuileries.html
To learn more about the Tuileries
http:// www.louvre.fr / LLV / museum / promenade.jsp
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/musee/histoire_jardin.jsp
http://www.paris-pittoresque.com/jardins/ 3.htm
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