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Parc Monceau

Address: Entrances on Bd. de Courcelles, Av. Velasquez, Av. Ruysdaël, Av. van Dyck, Parc Monceau, Paris | Map It

Category: Parks
Location: Les Grands Boulevards

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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.

Metro: Monceau

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Reviewed by bachslunch from US on 11/9/08
A charming small park in Paris in an attractive neighborhood, lovingly laid out, with lots of fine garden areas, statues, a rotunda, and some charming ersatz ruins. A must to seek out.