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Paris has far grander gardens and far larger gardens, but those ones are going to be full of people. In the Jardin de la Vallee Suisse you’re sharing the landscaped pond and waterfall, maples, ivy, bamboo and lilacs with only a very few. The waterfall helps mask the noise coming from the Champs Elysees and though the water’s come in from the Seine and isn’t quite crystal clear, the koi don’t seem to mind.
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“Hidden Gardens of Paris”
By Elaine Sciolino for The New York Times Published: June 29, 2008 Next to the Palais de la Découverte, just off the Champs-Élysées, is a flight-of-fancy sculpture of the 19th-century poet Alfred de Musset daydreaming about his former lovers. As art g… Read more...
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