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Parc Monceau Review
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Parc Monceau
Parks, Parc Monceau
Fodor's Review:
This exquisitely landscaped park began in 1778 as the Duc de Chartres's private garden. Though some of the parkland was sold off under the Second Empire (creating the exclusive real estate that now borders the park), the refined atmosphere and some of the fanciful faux-ruins have survived. Immaculately dressed children play, watched by their nannies, while lovers picnic on the grassy lawns. In 1797 André Garnerin, the world's first-recorded parachutist, staged a landing in the park. The rotunda -- known as the Chartres Pavilion -- is surely the city's grandest public restroom; it started life as a tollhouse.
INFO
- Address: Entrances on bd. de Courcelles, av. Velasquez, av. Ruysdael, av. van Dyck, Parc Monceau, Paris
- Metro: Monceau.
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