Jardin des Champs-Élysées

The Jardin des Champs-Élysées is a public park located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It occupies 13.7 hectares, and is located on both sides of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées between the Place de la Concorde on the east and the Rond-point des Champs-Élysées on the west and between Avenue Gabriel to the north and the Seine to the south. It includes within its boundaries the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, as well as a theater and other buildings. It was one of the first parks in the city, laid out by André Le Notre in 1667, and was the site of the Paris International Exposition of 1855 and an important part of the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900, for which the Grand Palais and Petit Palais were created.

The gardens were originally designed in 1667 by André Le Notre as an extension of the Jardin des Tuileries, the gardens of the Tuileries Palace. Le Notre planned a wide promenade between the palace and the modern Rond Point, lined with two rows of elm trees on either side, and flowerbeds in the symmetrical style of the French formal garden. The garden was remade in 1765 in the same style by Abel François Poisson, the marquis de Marigny, the brother of Madame Pompadour and Director-General of the King's Buildings. The avenue itself was extended as far as Place d'Etoile in 1710, and then extended again in 1774 by Marigny as far as the modern porte Maillot.

Following the French Revolution, two equestrian statues, made in 1745 by Nicolas and Tuillaume Coustou, were transferred from the former royal palace at Marly-le-Roi and placed at the beginning of the boulevard and park. After the downfall of Napoleon and the restoration of the French monarchy, the gardens had to be replanted, because the occupation armies of the Russians, English and Prussians had camped in the park and used the trees for firewood.

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