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Premier Regent's Garden Paris Tourism

Category:	Garden Tourism
Title:	Premier Regent's Garden Paris Tourism
Listing URL:	http://www.hotel-regent-garden-paris.federal-hotel.com
Description:	In 1769, the Duke of Chartres, future Duke of Orleans, made build close to the village of Heap a "folie". The drauwer and author of Carmontelle comedies, helped of a landscape designer Thomas Blaikie, created an imaginary garden with false Gothic ruins, a Dutch mill, a Tartar tent, a pagoda, an Egyptian pyramid... The garden was a place of curiosities in the open air revealing the attractions of nature and civilization. October 22, 1797, it is in this park that the first parachutist of the history, A. Garnerin sprang since a montgolfier. In 1860, at the time of the fastening of the village of Heap in Paris, half of the park was sold to the Péreire brothers by the town of Paris in order to build private mansions. Second half was refitted in landscaped garden by Alphand on behalf of the Haussmann prefect, and was issued park. Along the its quiet alleys, the park preserved beautiful statues, its Egyptian pyramid - work of Carmontelle -, its Naumachie... The park also has many infrastructures for young people: swings, toboggans, vats with sand, cycle tracks...
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