posted on 2017-06-30, 00:00authored byG. Massiot & cie
The public park is fifteen hectares in area, and it is styled as an English garden, a genre popular since the early 19th century. The park was ordained by Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann as part of a plan to add green areas to Paris. The water reservoir in the northeast portion of the park covers an historic entrance to the Paris catacombs. Jean-Claude Alphand (1817-1901), with the assistance of Edouard Andr\u00E9 (1827-1911), was in charge of laying out and improving the parks; the planting was left to Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps (1824-1873).
History
Alt Title
Parc Montsouris
Date Created
1910-01-01
Date Modified
2017-06-30
Spatial Coverage
Paris
+48.822222+2.338333
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Temporal Coverage
before or circa 1910
Cultural Context
['Nineteenth century', 'Second Empire']
Rights Statement
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