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The garden created in 1617 by "Boyeau de La Bareaudière", first theorist of the French garden, on Marie de Médicis's initiative, organized itself around a central flowerbed crowned with terraces. Two thousand elms aligned in square framed the perspective which stumbled in the South over the wall of the enclosure of the Carthusian monks. The monks refusing to give up a thumb of ground, the extension southward was realized only at the end of the 18th century, after the disappearance of the convent during the revolution. Luxemburg was reshaped under the First Empire by Chalgrin, who widens and prolonged the central perspective and created a garden in the southwest. Of this time the balustrades date which overhang the central flowerbed and the pond. Under the Second Empire, the percement of streets and the neighbouring avenues the surface reduced, but the configuration was not questioned.
Paris Monument by Thirza Vallois
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