House and Garden 
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE GARDEN FACADE OF THE TUILERIES AS BUILT BY DELORME 
From Histoire Generate 
arrangement has always irritated the strict 
classicism of modern Paris, which has been 
only imperfectly reassured by Napoleon’s 
remark, “ les oiseaux seuls s’aper^oivent de 
l’irregularite des grandes espaces.” 
THE PLACE ROYALE 
The old palace of the Tournelles, north of 
the Rue Saint-Antoine and near the Bastille, 
which the Duke of Bedford had made his 
headquarters during the English occupation, 
and where Henry II. was mortally wounded, 
was abandoned after this king’s death, and at 
the end of the sixteenth century had become 
the common horse-market. Henry IV. con¬ 
ceived a scheme for devoting this property to 
areal-estate improvement; an immense square 
dressed as a park, and surrounded on all sides 
by good houses built according to a well-con¬ 
ceived,uniform plan. The design was made by 
the younger Jacques-Androuet du Cerceau, 
who began its construction in 1605. The Place 
Dauphine at the Pont-Neuf was a similar ex¬ 
periment. The Place Royale, now Place des 
Vosges,was a favorite project with Henry IV. 
With variations it has been often copied. 
The Place Vendome and Place des Victoires 
in Paris, Covent Garden and Lincoln’s Inn 
Fields in London may be cited as examples. 
{To be continued ) 
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