The Fire of the Tuilery Palace

With the tuilerie palace increasingly indefensible, the commander of the guard there ordered that it be doused in gasoline and any other flammable liquid they could find. The burning of the tuileri was just the first of the great acts of destructive arson that accompanied the fall of the paris commune. And this arson became one of the commune's longest lasting legacies. Louis the fourteenth and fifteenth accepted its gutted black husk would sit as a monument to the destructive wrath of thecommune until it was all finally torn down in 18 83.