"Madame, I see from day to day with an increasing pleasure the interest that your Majesty takes in architecture. The palace which you have built at Paris near the Pont Neuf and the Louvre is, according to its disposition, excellent and admirable to the extent that it pleases me beyond measure." After Delorme considerable changes were made and successfully carried out under the architects Ducerceau, Duperac, Levau and Dorbay. A distinct feature of the work of Delorme was his use of the column ornamented throughout its length, which, as he says in his written works, he first employed in the "_Palais de la Majeste de la Royne-Mere a Paris_." Of the ability of Delorme there is no diversity of opinion to-day, nor was there in his time. Besides the Tuileries he has to his credit the Chateau d'Anet, the Chateau de Saint Maur, that of Meudon--built for the Cardinal de Lorraine,--and his important additions to the Chateau de la Muette and the Chateaux of Saint Germain, Madrid and Fontainebleau. As might be supposed Catherine de Medici professed a great admiration for Delorme and recompensed his talents with a royal generosity, even nominating him as Abbe of the Convent of Saint Eloi de Noyon, a fact which caused the poet Ronsard to evolve a political satire: "La Truelle Crossee." At the same time that she was building the Tuileries Catherine de Medici caused additions to be made to the Louvre; at least she undertook the completion of the unfinished portion, which had been left for other hands to do. The first historic souvenir which stands out prominently with regard to the Palais des Tuileries is the fete given four days before the fateful Saint Bartholomew's night. It was the marriage fete of the gallant Henri de Bearn, King of Navarre, and the wise and witty Marguerite de Valois. Henri IV, coming to the throne a quarter of a century after the admirable first year's work on the Tuileries had been completed, found that little had been done towards making it a really habitable place. It had been hurriedly finished off to the second story, and had served well enough for a temporary residence, or as an overflow establishment where balls and fetes might be given without crowding, but to the ambitious Henri IV nothing would do but that the pavilions should be bound together with a more imposing ligature, and that the Pavillon de Flore should in turn be linked up with the Louvre by a gallery. Under Louis XIII this latter really came to a conclusion according to the plans of the architect Ducerceau, but the inspiration of making the Louvre and the Tuileries one was due to Henri IV.