TEC4728202: The desert of Retz to Chambourcy (Parc et jardin de Chambourcy) Desert de Retz, les Yvelines, Ile de France (Ile-de-France), France. The Desert de Retz, created between 1774 and 1789 by Monsieur de Monville, with pavilions of manure or factories of rare species to achieve the absolute of grace of that period. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4734131: Parc de Bagatelle, Paris 75016. The result of a bet between Marie-Antoinette and the Comte d'Artois, who had acquired the estate in 1775, this trifle miraculously emerged from the earth in sixty-four days! The park was designed by Belanger and realized by Thomas Blaikie, in a typical Anglo-Chinese style of that period. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4734154: Parc de Bagatelle, Paris 75016. The result of a bet between Marie-Antoinette and the Comte d'Artois, who had acquired the estate in 1775, this trifle miraculously emerged from the earth in sixty-four days! The park was designed by Belanger and realized by Thomas Blaikie, in a typical Anglo-Chinese style of that period. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4594763: Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8th arrondissement. It was Jean Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste) Colbert (1619-1683) who had Andre Le Notre (1613-1700) opened in 1667 an avenue starting from the Tuileries to reach a hill, today called L'Etoile. There's nothing left from that time. Only nineteenth century witnesses remain on the Champs Elysees. Bernard Huet was asked in 1994 to bring back the Champs Elysees in order to restore its prestige to the avenue: the cars were driven from the allees, an underground car park created, the floor covered with grey granite slabs. The promenade aspect was reinforced by the planting of a second row of plane trees and new constraints were defined for signs and windows. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4594788: Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8th arrondissement. It was Jean Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste) Colbert (1619-1683) who had Andre Le Notre (1613-1700) opened in 1667 an avenue starting from the Tuileries to reach a hill, today called L'Etoile. There's nothing left from that time. Only nineteenth century witnesses remain on the Champs Elysees. Bernard Huet was asked in 1994 to bring back the Champs Elysees in order to restore its prestige to the avenue: the cars were driven from the allees, an underground car park created, the floor covered with grey granite slabs. The promenade aspect was reinforced by the planting of a second row of plane trees and new constraints were defined for signs and windows. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4594836: Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8th arrondissement. It was Jean Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste) Colbert (1619-1683) who had Andre Le Notre (1613-1700) opened in 1667 an avenue starting from the Tuileries to reach a hill, today called L'Etoile. There's nothing left from that time. Only nineteenth century witnesses remain on the Champs Elysees. Bernard Huet was asked in 1994 to bring back the Champs Elysees in order to restore its prestige to the avenue: the cars were driven from the allees, an underground car park created, the floor covered with grey granite slabs. The promenade aspect was reinforced by the planting of a second row of plane trees and new constraints were defined for signs and display cases. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595266: Boulevard Malesherbes with the church Saint Augustin, Paris 8th arrondissement. The largest church built in Paris in the 19th century. Its structure is entirely metal and the stone walls are just an envelope. Construction 1860-1871, architect Victor Balard (1805-1874). / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595367: Atonomous chapel, Square Louis XVI, Paris 8th arrondissement, raised at the request of Louis XVIII (1755-1824) on the site of the cemetery of the Madeleine, where the bodies of Louis XVI (1754-1893), Marie Antoinette of Austria (1755-1793), the Swiss guards and numerous guillotines of the Place de la Revolution were deposited. Architect Pierre Francois leonard Fontaine (1762-1853), construction 1816-1826. / Bridgeman Images