Tuileries reconstruction project

The Tuileries Palace as part of the architectural ensemble of the Louvre (around 1857)

The Galerie de la Paix

Louis XIV Salon

The Tuileries Reconstruction Project (originally French le projet de reconstruction des Tuileries ) is a project run by the Paris Académie du Second Empire to rebuild the Palais des Tuileries , which burned down in 1871 and demolished in 1883 .

history

The palace built in 1564, in which Napoleon III was the last . resided, fell victim to the flames during the Paris Commune . Jules Ferry , the culture minister of the French Third Republic , had initially promised to rebuild the burnt-out building as a museum , but then had it demolished.

Since 2002 a “Comité national pour la reconstruction des Tuileries” has been agitating for the restoration of the palace and collecting donations. The estimated cost is 350 million euros. A ministerial commission headed by Maurice Druon issued a positive report on the project in February 2007. Ieoh Ming Pei supports the project with regard to the closedness of the palace complex which is then restored. Supporters include the champagne maker Jean Taittinger, the former President of the National Assembly Philippe Séguin and Michel Carmona , director of the Sorbonne's Urban Development Institute . However, the project also mobilized many dissenting voices and was criticized as a weak imitation (pastiche), among other things. In addition, some would regret the obstruction of the now open perspective towards the Arc de Triomphe . On January 19, 2009, the French Art Historians' Association turned a unanimously passed resolution against the reconstruction project.

An essential factor for the official goodwill towards the project is that the valuable inner-city terrain of the Tuileries has remained undeveloped and could offer space for a further expansion of the Louvre .

Several photographs exist showing the interior of the palace.

literature

Robert Schediwy : Reconstruction: Regained Legacy or Useless Kitsch? , Lit-Verlag, Vienna a. a. 2011, pp. 119–121.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b le projet de reconstruction des Tuileries. With resolution text of the Art Historians Association. La tribune de l'art, January 30, 2009, accessed January 21, 2017 .
↑ Alain Boumier, President of the Académie du Second Empire is quoted by the BBC according to the web link as follows: "Some rooms will be recreated as they were in the 19th century. These include the chapel and theater, used by Mozart, Haydn, Voltaire and Beaumarchais . The major part will be put at the disposal of the Louvre and could become a museum dedicated to events at the Tuileries and the people who lived there. "

[lart-1] A ^b le projet de reconstruction des Tuileries. With resolution text of the Art Historians Association. La tribune de l'art, January 30, 2009, accessed January 21, 2017 .

[2] Alain Boumier, President of the Académie du Second Empire is quoted by the BBC according to the web link as follows: "Some rooms will be recreated as they were in the 19th century. These include the chapel and theater, used by Mozart, Haydn, Voltaire and Beaumarchais . The major part will be put at the disposal of the Louvre and could become a museum dedicated to events at the Tuileries and the people who lived there. "