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:''Not to be confused with the Château de la Tournelle.'' The hôtel des Tournelles was a now-demolished collection of buildings in Paris built from the 14th century onwards, north of what is now place des Vosges. It is named after its many 'tournelles' or little towers.〔J-A Dulaure, ''Histoire de Paris'', Gabriel Roux, Paris, 1853, p. 189〕〔''Le Magasin Pittoresque'', 1851, p.96〕 It was long owned by the kings of France, though they did not often live there. Henry II of France died there in 1559 of wounds received in a joust. After his death, his widow Catherine de Médici abandoned the building (by then old-fashioned) and it was turned into a gunpowder magazine, then sold to finance the construction of a palace in the Italian style, which became known as the Tuileries. ==Site and description== At the start of the 15th century, the whole district around it formed a huge rectangle marked out by rue Saint-Antoine, rue des Tournelles, rue de Turenne and rue Saint-Gilles, which was broken from within by the royal estate's park. During the English occupation of Paris from 1420 to 1436, the Duke of Bedford extended it by purchasing eight and a half acres from the nuns of Sainte-Catherine for 200 livres 16 sous, thus extending the property as far as the fortified wall of Paris, then situated on the site of what is now boulevard Richard Lenoir. This extension was annulled in 1437 after the English defeat. The main entrance to the hôtel was at the bottom of what is now impasse Guéménée. It was said to be able to support 6,000 people. Like the Hôtel Saint-Pol, the hôtel des Tournelles was made up of a collection of buildings spread over an estate of more than , including twenty chapels, several pleasure grounds, ovens and twelve galleries housing the Duke of Bedford's famous ''galerie des courges'' (so-called due to the painted green squashes or ''courges'' decoarting its walls – under its tiled roof his arms, devices and heraldry were shown). It also included a maze called 'Dedalus', two parks planted with trees, six kitchen gardens and a ploughed field. The council chamber was notable for the magnificence of its decoration. Three other rooms bore the names ''salle des Écossais, salle de brique'' and ''salle pavée''. One part of the hôtel des Tournelles with the name ''Logis du Roi'' had an entrance decorated with the French coat of arms, painted by Jean de Boulogne, known as Jean de Paris. In 1464, Louis XI built a gallery there which connected the house to the Hôtel-Neuf of madame d'Étampes, across rue Saint-Antoine. He also built an observatory for his doctor Jacques Coitier. Meangeries based on those at the hôtel Saint-Paul were later added to house some of the animals previously held at the hôtel Saint-Paul. New specimens were imported from Africa, such as lions, giving the enclosures their name ''d’hôtel des lions du Roi''. No remains survive of the hôtel besides a copy of one of its gates, which forms the south gate of église Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, and some caves buried below buildings in the district. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hôtel des Tournelles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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