En Avril A Paris

It was back in the 1600s that the incredible landscape designer called Andre Le Notre was commissioned to design a walk with a tree lined avenue that... more

by Iryna Goodall

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En Avril A Paris

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Iryna Goodall

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Photograph

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It was back in the 1600s that the incredible landscape designer called Andre Le Notre was commissioned to design a walk with a tree lined avenue that became known as the Avenue des Champs-Elysees along with a garden area that would serve as an extension to the Tuileries Gardens and the Palais du Louvre Palace, which is now home to the Musee du Louvre.

The garden area became known as the Jardins des Champs-Elysees and the garden became a very popular destination in Paris toward the end of the 1700s, and when the guillotine was erected at the Place de la Concorde during the French Revolution, this attracted even more people to this famous avenue.

However, at the fall of the Empire, Russian and Prussian troops camped within the Champs Elysees gardens and unfortunately many of the original trees and plants were completely destroyed.

But through the efforts of Jacques Ignace Hittorf who was instrumental in the improvements and reconstruction of Paris, the city regained much of its past prestige.

Yet only a few years later, the Jardins des Champs-Elysees were redesigned in an English style by Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand under the orders of Baron Haussmann. And apart from the fact that the gardens were reduced in size to make way for Grand Palais and the Petit Palais for the 1900 World Fair, they remain in the same style today.

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December 1st, 2021