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    Paris today has more than 421 municipal parks and gardens, covering more than three thousand hectares and containing more than 250,000 trees.[verification...
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    the Luxembourg Garden, colloquially referred to as the Jardin du Sénat (Senate Garden), is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. The creation...
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    straddling either side of Blackfriars Road. It originated as the manor of Paris Garden in the parish of St Margaret, Southwark. The parish of St Margaret was...
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    Paris today has more than 421 municipal parks and gardens, covering more than three thousand hectares and containing more than 250,000 trees.[verification...
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    de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Created by Catherine de' Medici as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was opened...
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    botanical garden in Paris, created in 1626. Between 1853 and 1870, Emperor Napoleon III and the city's first director of parks and gardens, Jean-Charles...
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    identifying even the wildest wild garden is control. The garden can incorporate both natural and artificial materials. Gardens often have design features including...
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    The Jardin des Plantes (French for "Garden of the Plants"), also known as the Jardin des Plantes de Paris (French: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ dɛ plɑ̃t də paʁi]) when distinguished...
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    2016. p. 4. "The Carrousel & Tuileries Gardens". Louvre Museum. "Les Tuileries Gardens. Facts. Information". Paris Digest. 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2018...
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    Bear-baiting (redirect from Bear-garden)
    after animals or people. For a long time, the main bear-garden in London was the Paris Garden, a section of the Bankside lying to the west of The Clink...
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    Luxembourg Gardens, Paris is an oil painting completed in 1887 by the Finnish artist Albert Edelfelt depicting a scene in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris, France...
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    The Grand Mosque of Paris (French: Grande Mosquée de Paris), also known as the Great Mosque of Paris or simply the Paris Mosque, is located in the 5th...
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    the entrance to the Tuileries Garden, and remained there for thirteen months. Of the 2,498 persons guillotined in Paris during the Revolution, 1,119 were...
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    2021, the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, announced that the city would transform the Champs-Élysées into an "extraordinary garden" which will reduce the...
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    arrondissement, called Luxembourg in a reference to the seat of the Senate and its garden, is situated on the Rive Gauche of the River Seine. It includes educational...
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    The Square du Temple is a garden in Paris, France in the 3rd arrondissement, established in 1857. It is one of 24 city squares planned and created by...
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    (pronounced [tʁɔkadeʁo] ), site of the Palais de Chaillot, is an area of Paris, France, in the 16th arrondissement, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower...
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    River from the City of London. It was at the northeast corner of the Paris Garden estate nearest to London Bridge that Francis Langley had purchased in...
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    once said, "When in Paris the only reason not to stay at the Ritz is if you can't afford it". In 1904 and 1908, the Ritz garden café was painted by the...
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    ceremonies began at the Tuileries Garden with Zaho de Sagazan and the Haendel-Hendrix Academy Choir singing "Sous le ciel de Paris", originally sung by Jean Bretonnière...
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    The Tivoli gardens of Paris were amusement parks located near the current site of the Saint-Lazare station, named after the gardens of the Villa d'Este...
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    The Paris Commune (French: Commune de Paris, pronounced [kɔ.myn də pa.ʁi]) was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris from 18 March...
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    Commune de Paris, replantation of the garden did not get underway until 1883 (Thompson, 2006). The most recent replantations of the gardens were precipitated...
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    French Academy of Sciences and the first botanical garden in Paris, which also became the first park in Paris open to the public. The first permanent theater...
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    The Château de Bagatelle in Paris is a small Neoclassical-style château with several French formal gardens, a rose garden and an orangerie. It is set...
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    accidentally knocked down a brick or stone wall, either that of a Paris garden or part of the Paris Arsenal walls, in perhaps the first known automobile accident...
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    into the network of Paris municipal libraries, and houses the city's historical research service. The public access to its garden named Hôtel-Lamoignon...
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    woodlands rich in Herb Paris colonies. "Paris quadrifolia". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Prof. Dr. Otto...
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    Monet done in 1900, now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. It is one of many works by the artist of his garden at Giverny over the last thirty years of his life...
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    The Parc floral de Paris is a public park and botanical garden located within the Bois de Vincennes in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. Created in 1969...
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