Parc Monceau : 8th
arrondissement.
Métro : Courcelles.
This chic and elegant
park of the
Parisian West area is one of rare place where one can rest
with
same the grass at the days of summer. A true harmony and haven of peace
in privileged district a as well by the opulence of the middle-class
residences as by the presence close to many museums of quality,
Cernuschi, Camondo, Jacquemart-Andre. Nowadays it is appreciated by the
joggers of the district which thread turns like as many rings sanded
and by the battalions of children leaving the schools, the Park Monceau
has several proud entries worthy of the Stanislas Place of Nancy so
much his wrought iron gates are prestigious. Its origin starts in 1787
when the Duke of Chartres, father of Louis-Philippe, made draw close to
the village of Monceau, then apart from Paris, an exotic garden. The
landscape designers Carmontelle and Blaikie imagined then a strange
greenery, filled up artificially restored reliefs naturalness : rivers,
rocks, caves. Nowadays a basin surrounded by columns in ruin still
remains, the ancient colonnade of Naumachie. In 1793, the Park joined
the building of Granting of the farmers general. This rotunda
néo-antique was a true toll to recover the taxes of the
products
which penetrated in the capital. In 1860, the village of Monceau was
attached with Paris. The investors, whose Pereire brothers, seized this
virgin and wooded plain and undertook in a few years a residential
urbanization in the wake of Paris Haussmanien.
