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    Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʃaʁl adɔlf alfɑ̃]; 26 October 1817 – 6 December 1891) was a French engineer of the Corps of Bridges...
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  • Alphand may refer to: Hervé Alphand (1907-1994), French diplomat Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (1817-1891), engineer of the Second Empire of France Luc...
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    regime of Napoleon III, it was built according to plans by Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, who created all the major parks for Haussmann's renovation of Paris...
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    palais and the Seine is set with gardens, designed by Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, and an array of fountains. Within its garden, the old palace contained...
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    appointed Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, the head of Haussmann's department of parks and plantations, as the director of works of Paris. Alphand respected the basic...
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    squares planned and created by Georges-Eugène Haussmann and Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand. The Square occupies the site of a medieval fortress in Paris, built...
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    forerunner of the Musée de l'Homme. The Trocadéro gardens were designed by Adolphe Alphand. From 1880, a popular observatory, founded by Léon Jaubert, was set...
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    Plantations, led by an engineer, Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, who was already at work on the Bois de Boulogne. Alphand was a master organizer, the builder of...
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  • composer and organist Marietta Alboni – Italian opera singer Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand – French civil engineer Émilie Ambre – French opera singer Elena Andreianova...
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    sent to the Minister of Works and Commissioner for the Exposition, Adolphe Alphand, and it was published by Le Temps on 14 February 1887: We, writers...
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    build on a much larger scale. Working with Haussmann and Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, the engineer who headed the new Service of Promenades and Plantations...
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    III and the city's first director of parks and gardens, Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, created the Bois de Boulogne, Bois de Vincennes, Parc Montsouris and...
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    masked compositionally and just shortly after technologically as in Adolphe Alphand's Parc des Buttes Chaumont and Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's...
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    26 October 1930) was a French landscape architect who trained with Adolphe Alphand and became conservator of the promenades of Paris. Forestier studied...
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    and promenades of Paris, Gabriel Davioud, under the leadership of Adolphe Alphand, built new ornamental gates and fences around the park, and polychrome...
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    experienced engineer from the corps of Bridges and Highways, Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, whom he had worked with in his previous assignment in Bordeaux, and...
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    Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III. The avenue was built by Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, the chief engineer of the Service of Promenades and Plantations of...
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    wanted to build on a much larger scale. Working with Haussmann and Adolphe Alphand, the engineer who headed the new Service of Promenades and Plantations...
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    Engineer Adolphe Alphand wears a topcoat or overcoat with a velvet collar, 1887....
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  • Almeda [es] (born 1946) Á.Löve – Áskell Löve (1916–1994) Alphand – Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (1817–1891) Alph.Wood – Alphonso Wood (1810–1881) Alpino...
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    hectares in area, designed as an English landscape garden by Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand. The park contains a lake, a cascade, wide sloping lawns, as well as...
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    formerly the garden of the original Trocadéro Palace, laid out by Adolphe Alphand for the 1878 Exposition Universelle. The present garden has an area...
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  • city’s parks and public spaces, where he worked with Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (e.g. on the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes). In November...
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    including Adolphe Bouguereau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet: a petition was sent to Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, the Minister...
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    acres) Invention(s) Phonograph Visitors 32,250,297 Organized by Charles Adolphe Alphand Participant(s) Countries 35 Business 61,722 Location Country France...
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    was in exile. Haussmann assembled a remarkable team: Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, the city's first Director of the new Service of Promenades and Plantations;...
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    landscape-designers including John Claudius Loudon, John Nash, Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, Hermann Ludwig Heinrich Pückler-Muskau and Frederick Law Olmsted....
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    Paris Squares in Paris Haussmann's renovation of Paris Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand Wallace fountain Place du 8 Février 1962 Place du 8 Novembre 1942 Place...
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    garden was created between 1867 and 1870 to designs by Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, who also designed Paris's Parc Monceau, Bois de Boulogne, and Bois...
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    III and the city's first director of parks and gardens, Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, created the Bois de Boulogne, the Bois de Vincennes, Parc Montsouris...
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