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57. Tuileries. The Palace of the Tuileries at the time of which Daudet speaks lay directly in front of the long perspective as one came down the Champs Élysëes. The palace was founded by Catherine de Médicis in 1 564, and the central portion, alluded to hère, was destroyed by the Communists in 187 1.