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What is Paris famous for? Louvre Museum, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe. But there is a “landmark” in Paris that is not written about in guidebooks. This is the Red Man – a ghost roaming the alleys Tuileries Garden. For 300 years, he was the next night to the French king, to predict that imminent death.
Royal ghost palace
In 1564, the Dowager Queen Catherine de Medici commissioned to the famous architect Philibert Delorme near the Louvre to build for myself, my beloved, the palace and set up a park with it. The palace received the name of the Tuileries, acquired a servant, furnishings, and soon, thanks to all the same Catherine de Medici, and her own ghost.
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Catherine de Medici remained influential until the last days of her life on the political life of France. Alternately reigning Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III were strongly influenced by their mother, according to important political decisions were made to her advice; allies identified opponents.
Not everyone had such a kings failure, no wonder the dowager queen had enemies. Catherine dragged them to his side by bribery, blackmail, and for the most intractable she had Jean-Flayer.
Secret Agent of the French Queen
Regarded as a royal butcher, Jean part-time carried out secret orders of Catherine de Medici. Usually a queen lured her unwanted face into the Tuileries Palace for confidential conversations, and upon exiting, in the park, the poor fellow was waiting for Jean-Flayer. Only the butcher and the marble statues of the Tuileries Garden knew where that or Queen’s guest.
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But the time came when Catherine considered that Jean already knew too much and “ordered” himself. Queen’s new secret agent not yet filled his hand, and bleeding Jean-Flayer, before die, managed to say: “I’ll be back!” He is back, and very soon.
Return
The killer was the first to see the ghost. This happened the very next day, and then the ghost of Jean-Flayer began to appear regularly in hallways of the palace and in the adjacent park. Bloodthirsty Ghost they began to call the “Red Man”. In 1570 he appeared cosmos Rugieri, the court astrologer, and said that the queen would “die near Saint Germain. ”
The astrologer warned the queen, and she began to avoid everything that had a relationship to Saint Germain. Cities, villages, parks, rivers and She bypassed the lakes with the same name as the tenth road. She never I didn’t attend the royal residence in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and myself Tuileries Palace became forgotten, as it was located on the territory Parish of Saint-Germain l’Oxerrois.
Of the ten children of the Queen, three died in infancy. Subsequently, Catherine survived the death of three more sons and two daughters. Before the death of each of them, a queen visited the queen and warned of imminent misfortune. In 1589, 69-year-old in Blois Catherine felt the approach of death. Usually accompanying her chaplain was not near, and the servants called the first caught the eye of a monk. This church minister was called Julien de Saint Germain.
Curse of the kings of France
After the death of Catherine de Medici, the Red Man disappeared from the castle. He returned after 20 years to become a messenger for the kings of France of death. In 1610, on the night of May 13-14, he “visited” Henry IV Bourbon. The next day, the king of France was killed.
In 1792, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette lived in Tuileries on rights of prisoners. Once the queen saw in the mirror standing her behind the bloodied man. She turned around screaming – standing to say that there was nobody in the room but the ladies of the court? On the the next day, the royal family was transported to Temple. Louis ascended to the scaffold on January 21, 1793, and his wife on October 16 of the same of the year.
Napoleon, becoming First Consul, made the Tuileries official residence. Before going to Russia, the Red Man appeared Napoleon predicted that the campaign would end in defeat. But Bonaparte believed more in his military genius than in spirits and did not cancel the trip. Soon he had to repent of his recklessness.
In 1820, the Red Man warned of the imminent death of the Duke Berry, son of the future king Charles X, and in 1824 “pleased visit of Louis XVIII, who soon died of gout.
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Ghost of the Tuileries Park
In 1871, supporters of the Paris Commune set fire to the palace, Tuileries burned down. Today in its place is a public park with an area of 25.5 ha. But the ghost has not gone anywhere. Park officials say that many of them saw Red Man late at night in the desert alleys. And although the ghost did not predict any ambulance death, none of those who met him expressed a desire to meet Red Man repeatedly.
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