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Tuileries

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Former location of the palace of the French monarchs. Burned by arson in 1871 it is now more known for the large public park next to the Louvre and Arch de Triomphe.

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In 1841, only two years later, an assistant to Daguerre, André Le Fèvre, was arrested in the Tuileries Gardens for attempting to sell a gentleman a picture of the woman and the pony. That was where Weary bought his picture, too—in the Tuileries.

Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)
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Despite the orgiastic rituals once held at the Arc du Carrousel, art aficionados revered this place for another reason entirely. From the esplanade at the end of the Tuileries, four of the finest art museums in the word could be seen ... one at each point of the compass.

Dan Brown. The da Vinci Code, p. 17 (2003)
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"I tell you what I will do, Narbonne—I tell you how I will vent my spite on this old fool of a Pope, and the dotards who may succeed him said Napoleon one day at the Tuileries. "I will make a schism as great as that of Luther—I will make France a Protestant country!"

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne. Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 11
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there's always somebody spying around that gives notice to the governor of the castle. When Louis XVI. was going to light out of the Tooleries, a servant-girl done it.

Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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