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The great palace of Catharine de Medici, the home of three dynasties, is simply the Tuileries, the Tile-fields. You cannot make people call the White House the Executive Mansion. A merchant named Pitti built a palace in Florence, and though kings and grand dukes have inhabited it since, it is still the Pitti. There is nothing so democratic as language.
The very name of the place must have sounded home-like in the ears of Palissy, for Tuileries means nothing more than 'tile-fields, and for a long while this part of Paris had been the workshop of brick-makers and potters outside the walls of the old city.
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