Tuileries Palace
The clean sightline from the Louvre to the Arc de Triomphe exists only because the palace on this spot burned in 1871 and was scraped away.
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Most French monarchs from Henri IV to Napoleon III lived here until the Commune set it ablaze for 48 hours in May 1871, leaving only the foundations. The gap between the Louvre's two long arms is where its 266-metre façade once stood.
What to look for
- The Pavillon de Flore, the surviving corner pavilion that once linked the palace to the Louvre's Grande Galerie -- now the Louvre's southernmost point.
- The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, which stood in the palace forecourt and survived the fire that took everything behind it.
- Salvaged palace stone -- fragments were sold off and reused as far away as Ecuador's Palacio de Carondelet and Berlin's Schwanenwerder.
Free and open-air, at the Louvre's western courtyard where the Tuileries Garden begins.
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More to see in Paris
- Eiffel TowerThe 300-metre iron tower Parisian artists petitioned against before it was even finished.
- Louvre MuseumThe world's most-visited museum lives inside a 12th-century fortress that became a royal palace.
- Notre-Dame de ParisThe spire fell on live TV in April 2019; since December 2024 you can walk back inside.
- Musée d'OrsayVan Gogh and Monet hung inside a Beaux-Arts station built for the Paris–Orléans railway.
- Champs-ÉlyséesA single 1.9-km straight line runs from the Concorde obelisk to the Arc de Triomphe — Paris's ceremonial spine on the Axe historique.
- Place de la BastilleThe prison that lit a revolution is gone — and the mob that stormed it on 14 July 1789 came for gunpowder, not the seven forgotten men inside.