LBY4733160: Parc Departemental de la Courneuve, Seine Saint Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), Ile de France (Ile-De-France). Photography 01/08/02. Created in 1956, this park is structured around a large circular lawn (intended to receive large-scale festive initiatives) and is accompanied by the origin of undergrowth and glades. It has grown successively to now count nearly 400 hectares, models by varying rhythms of valleys, lakes, belvederes and vast panoramas. On this large area there are playgrounds, picnic areas, catering kiosks, bike rentals, pedalos, maneges, carriage rides... The Maison du Parc, located on the banks of the great lake, will inform you about all these activities / Bridgeman Images
TEC4727166: The Musee Carnavalet, 23 rue de Sevigne, Paris 75003. Architect: Nicolas Dupuis in 1548-1560 and rehabilitated in 1660 by Francois Mansart. Dedicated to the history of Paris, this grand museum has occupied two adjoining hotels since 1991: Hotel Carnavalet, one of the most beautiful hotels of the Parisian Renaissance and Hotel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, built in the 18th century. In 1660, Francois Mansart was commissioned to expand and modernize it. In the foreground is the Victory Court with French gardens. Photograph 1992. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4728188: 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
TEC4728257: 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
ITR4729563: Parc d'Ermenonville “” Jean-Jacques Rousseau”, Oise, Picardie, France. From 1765 onwards, the Marquis Rene de Girardin created a park adorned with factories. Inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his vision of nature and with a moral intention, the Marquis surround himself with the advice of landscape architect Jean-Marie Morel, painter Hubert Robert, who later drew Mereville, Abbe Delille and Scottish gardeners. The park is treated in an English garden and the factories use both romantic style and maconic symbols. The ensemble stretched to the north and south of the castle over a hundred hectares and had about fifty factories of varying importance. / Bridgeman Images
ITR4729648: Parc d'Ermenonville “” Jean-Jacques Rousseau”, Oise, Picardie, France. From 1765 onwards, the Marquis Rene de Girardin created a park adorned with factories. Inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his vision of nature and with a moral intention, the Marquis surround himself with the advice of landscape architect Jean-Marie Morel, painter Hubert Robert, who later drew Mereville, Abbe Delille and Scottish gardeners. The park is treated in an English garden and the factories use both romantic style and maconic symbols. The ensemble stretched to the north and south of the castle over a hundred hectares and had about fifty factories of varying importance. / Bridgeman Images
ITR4729800: 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
ITR4729859: 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
ITR4729876: 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
ITR4755061: Le canal du Midi Book du Libron, Languedoc Roussillon (Languedoc-Roussillon), France. Photograph 2004. At 60 years old, under Louis XIV, engineer Pierre Paul Riquet embarks on an extraordinary adventure, connecting the Garonne to the Mediterranean with the technical and topographical means of the 18th century. The Midi Canal will take 15 years of work to dig and feed a 240 km long artificial stream. / Bridgeman Images
ITR4755454: Spanchoir of Argentdouble (Silver-Double or Silver Double) on the Canal du Midi, France. Photography 2002. The epanchoir was built in 1693 by the master macon biterrois David on the orders of Vauban. A surface reservoir allows to evacuate unnecessary water from the canal during the floods of the Argentdouble. / Bridgeman Images