The Tuileries are the Parisian royal residence, built for Catherine de Medici in 1564 and burned in the days of the Paris Commune in 1871.
Currently, there are plans to restore this palace complex. Alain Bumier, president of the National Committee for the Reconstruction of the Tuileries, hopes that the administrative details of the project will be coordinated in three years, and the construction will take about four. “I have reason to hope that in ten years we will meet,” said Bumier. If a new Tuileries is built, it will probably house exhibition halls for exhibits from the Louvre, its own museum, conference room, and even the offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Currently, the site of the Tuileries has a garden, bearing the same name, but the details of the foundation and the drawings have been preserved.
Almost all the works of art and interiors that were in the palace, also survived and dispersed in several museums. Prominent French architects, including Roger Tayliber, head of the Academy of Fine Arts, believe that the newly rebuilt palace will bring harmony back to the Champs Elysees, which opens from the Arc de Triomphe.
During the Great French Revolution, King Louis XVI moved to the Tuileries; later the Convention and the Council of Five Hundred met in it. In 1848, the Tuileries were taken by assault on the rebels, and in 1871 burned down.