Tuileries

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Tuileries formal gardens next to the Louvre in Paris, laid out by André Le Nôtre in the mid 17th century. The gardens are all that remain of the Tuileries Palace, a royal residence begun in 1564 by Catherine de' Medici and burnt down in 1871 during the Commune of Paris. The name is French and means literally ‘tile-works’, as the palace was built on the site of an ancient tile-works.