Parc de Sceaux
The park currently covers 151 ha, 11 km south of Paris, in the department of Hauts-de-Seine, straddling the municipalities of Sceaux Chatenay-Malabry and Antony. It was created in the 1670s by André Le Nôtrefor Jean Baptiste Colbert. The Marquis de Seignelay, Colbert's son, inherited the domain in 1683 and continued the development of the park with the green carpet and the Grand Canal, 1140 feet long, then planted with elms. After the occupation of the area by Bavarian troops in 1870 and French in 1914, the owners, ruined, can not maintain the park that invades fallow. This one is rented and the trees are cut. In 1923, the Department of the Seine (Paris and Ile-de-France) buys and renovates. Poplars were planted along the Grand Canal (they have all been renewed since the storm of 1999) and the park is reopened to the public in 1930. It was not until the 1970s that the green returns to its original appearance. For further >>> idée et conception de Pierre-Yves Landouer |
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