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Winding roads and paths were built throughout the park. Davioud designed and built picturesque gatehouses, pavilions, a theatre, bandstand and a cafe to fit into the landscape. Barillet-Deschamps planted hundreds of trees and bushes, and laid out sloping lawns and flowerbeds. Every feature of the park was designed to create an idealized natural landscape, with space for both relaxation and recreation, which could be enjoyed by all classes of Parisians. The park was officially dedicated in 1869, but work on the park continued until 1878.
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that an influential 13th-century writer declared to be the burial place of "Ysoré", a defeated giant of popular legend. No matter the veracity of the story, many of the area's landmarks had taken the 'tombe Issoire' name by the 18th century, and if 'Issoire' emerged from 'Ysoré', 'Montsouris' could be a 'mont Ysoré' that evolved over time.
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According to the official website of the Park and other sources, the name of the park came from an old windmill, called the Moulin de Moque-Souris, which in the 18th century stood not far from the park site at the crossroads of rue d'Alesia and rue de la Tomb-Issoire. Moque-Souris ("mocks-the-mice")
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According to a park legend, on the day of the park official opening someone made a mistake with the plumbing, and the water in the artificial lake drained away in a single day. According to the legend, the park engineer was so distraught that he committed suicide. It is recorded that the lake did in
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Another possible origin of 'Montsouris' is common with the name of a former principal roadway, today's rue de la Tombe Issoire: after leaving the city to the south, it passed through a Roman-era cemetery that had fallen into disuse from the 4th century, and it may have been one these abandoned tombs
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Despite these difficulties, the work went ahead briskly. A one-hectare artificial lake was dug, fed by an artificial stream that passed over an artificial cascade made of rocks and cement. Stairways were constructed up the hills, with rustic-looking railings made of cement formed to resemble logs.
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Unlike the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes, the site for the future park did not have any trees or other vegetation. It was largely occupied by a large stone quarry, and to make the work more complicated, it was above a network of tunnels of abandoned mines, which were filled with human
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The main In the lower section of the park, an island in the middle of a tiny lake provides sanctuary to forty species of wild ducks, geese, herons, and other migratory birds. Some turtles imported from Florida, regularly sunbathe on the lake's stony shores.
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During World War II, a French soldier, Pierre Durand, was killed by a bomb in the park. A small monument near the lake remembers this event. In 1942, during the German occupation, one of the main monuments of the park, an 1893 allegorical statue of the
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A stone monument in the park indicates the location of the Meridian of Paris, an imaginary line that passes from north to south through the center of Paris. This line, first defined by French astronomers in 1667, was used as the zero point for
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The inscription on the stone marking the Paris Meridian, made in 1806, and originally placed in the garden of the Paris Observatory. The name of the Emperor Napoleon was erased from the monument after the Restoration of the
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was a common name for windmills in France at the time; it was a facetious name, suggesting that the miller dared the mice to find any grain inside. The name over time changed from moque-souris to Montsouris.
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The park contains a lake, a cascade, wide sloping lawns, as well as many notable varieties of trees, shrubs and flowers. It is also home to a meteorology station, a cafe and a
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sylvatica) trees on the upper lawn near at the entrance of Parc Montsouris. They are exceptionally large because they have been grafted onto horse-chestnut trees (
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railway line passes through Parc Montsouris. From 1852 to 1934, it ran inside the old city fortifications, and connected the five main railroad stations of Paris.
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The Palais du Bardo, a reduced-size replica of the Palace of the Bey of Tunis, was a landmark of the park until it burned down in 1991.
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The stone which originally marked the Meridian of Paris, the beginning point for measuring longitude for all French maps until 1884.
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For many decades the most famous structure in the park was the Palais du Bardo, a reduced-size replica of the palace of the Bey of
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Vie et histoire du XIV Arrondissement - Montsouris, Petit Montrouge, Plaisance: histoire, anecdotes, curiosities, monuments.
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theatre. The roads of the park are popular with joggers on weekends. Parc Montsouris is bounded to the south by
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A monument to the expedition of Colonel Paul Flatters, a French soldier and explorer, which was massacred by
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on all French maps until 1884, when France agreed, reluctantly, to use longitudes measured from
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The lake in Parc Montsouris is home to swans, ducks and a wide variety of other waterfowl.
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Les noms de lieu de la France, leur origin, leur signification, leur transformations
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skeletons. These tunnels were part of the ossuary of Paris, popularly known as the
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fact drain accidentally in one day in 1878, but there is no record of a suicide.
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Parc Montsouris is one of the four large urban public parks, along with the
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by sculptor Auguste Paris, was taken away and melted down for its bronze.
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is located in the southern part of Parc Montsouris, where it connects to
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Link to Parc Montsouris on the official site of the City of Paris
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Link to Parc Montsouris on the official site of the City of Paris
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Paris, the Early Roman City: The Saint-Jacques Necropolis
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Direction des Espaces Verts et de l'Environnement (DEVE)
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tortuosa) encircle the central lake of Parc Montsouris.
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The stone was originally located in the garden of the
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Les Légendes Epiques, Bedier, Joseph - excerpt from
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Urban park
14th arrondissement
Paris
Coordinates
48°49′20″N 2°20′18″E / 48.82222°N 2.33833°E / 48.82222; 2.33833 (Parc Montsouris)
RER station
Cité Universitaire
[paʁkmɔ̃suʁi]
Paris
France
14th arrondissement
Bois de Boulogne
Bois de Vincennes
Parc des Buttes Chaumont
Napoleon III
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
hectares
English landscape garden
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand
guignol
Boulevard Jourdan
Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
Cité Universitaire station
RER B
Île-de-France tramway Line 3a

Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
Gabriel Davioud

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