10 Facts About Tuileries Garden

Tuileries Garden is a public garden located between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.

Tuileries Garden built a rectangular ornamental lake of 65 metres by 45 metres with a fountain supplied with water by the new pump called La Samaritaine, which had been built in 1608 on the Pont Neuf.

Tuileries Garden was entirely enclosed, and was used exclusively by the royal family when they were in residence, but When the king and court were absent from Paris, the gardens were turned into a pleasure spot for the nobility.

Tuileries Garden immediately began transforming the Tuileries into a formal jardin a la francaise, a style he had first developed at Vaux-le-Vicomte and perfected at Versailles, based on symmetry, order and long perspectives.

Tuileries Garden eliminated the street which separated the palace and the garden, and replaced it with a terrace looking down upon flowerbeds bordered by low boxwood hedges and filled with designs of flowers.

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Tuileries Garden built two other alleys, lined with chestnut trees, on either side.

Tuileries Garden crossed these three main alleys with small lanes, to create compartments planted with diverse trees, shrubs and flowers.

In 1667, at the request of the famous author of Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales, Charles Perrault, the Tuileries Garden was opened to the public, with the exception of beggars, "lackeys" and soldiers.

Tuileries Garden continued to use the garden for military parades and to celebrate special events, including the passage of his own wedding procession on 2 April 1810, when he married the Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria.

Tuileries Garden enlarged the royal reserve within the garden further to the west as far as the north–south alley that crossed the large round basin, Tuileries Garden decorated the gardens with beds of exotic plants and flowers, and new statues.