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The green arched doors (behind the single green garbage can) lead to a walled garden and several buildings; my studio is in one of the buildings.

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An arched door leading to a courtyard and buildings....very common architectural feature in Paris.

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Luxembourg Gardens...huge set of gardens attached to a magnificent (house? castle?...palace.)....

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The park is the garden of the French Senate, which is itself housed in the Luxembourg Palace. It is the second-largest public park in Paris

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In 1611, Marie de Medicis, the widow of Henry IV and the regent for the King Louis XIII decided to...

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She commissioned Salomon de Brosse to build the palace and a fountain, which still exists. In 1612...

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n 1630 she bought additional land and enlarged the garden to thirty hectares, and entrusted the work...

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Statues of queens, duchesses, muses and poets everywhere.

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During and after the July Monarchy of 1848, the park became the home of a large population of...

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Later monarchs largely neglected the garden. In 1780, the Comte de Provence, the future Louis XVIII,...

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Amazing tree bark

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