 Parc Monceau - Reviews from across the web
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paris - monuments - parc monceau
Although the Parc Monceau is not very large by Paris standards, it is one of the most charming parks in Paris, and only about a half hour's walk from the Place de l'Opera. It is a park of shady walks, of leafy bowers, of ponds, of imitation natural springs, in fact, of everything that makes for comp...
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Parc Monceau - Paris - Reviews of Parc Monceau - TripAdvisor
My husband and I had wanted to visit the Parc Monceau for 2 years now and hadn't gotten there until our last trip to Paris in April. We only had about a half an hour there, but it was en...
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Parc Monceau, Paris
The Duke hired Louis Carrogis Carmontelle to design the gardens in an English style. Such gardens are much less formal than the traditional French garden, which is what distinguished it from many other parks in Paris. Carmontelle added random sculpture of famous Frenchmen as well as small-scale arch...
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!Paris, le Parc Monceau, Paris, jardin, garden, www.parisrama.com
In 1860, the city of Paris bought the garden. The Pereire brothers carried out a vast real-estate operation in one half of the garden. The other half became a park thanks to the Haussmann prefect and his engineer Alphand. The garden was inaugurated in its current configuration by the emperor Napoleo...
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Park Monceau - Gardens - Visiting - Mairie de Paris
In 1769, the Duke of Chartres, the future Duke of Orleans, bought a hectare of land in the heart of the Monceau plain. This was to be the modest beginning of the Duke's folly. A pavilion was built in the center of a garden which the duke, who later became Philippe Egalité, was to expand by 12...
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