The widowed queen Catherine de' Medici had…

The widowed queen Catherine de' Medici had planned a new palace after the death of Henry II of France in 1559.

Queen Mother of France since becoming regent for her young son Charles X in 1560, Catherine in 1564 commissions French master architect Philibert de l'Orme, in collaboration with Jean Brillant, to build a new palace on the right bank of the River Seine in Paris.

Called the Palace of the Tuileries, the name derives from the tile kilns, or tuileries, which had previously occupied the site.

The palace is to be formed by a range of long, narrow buildings with high roofs that enclose one major and two minor courtyards.