Parc Montsouris

The Parc Montsouris is a 15 -acre public park in the same name, located in the south of Paris quarters (districts ), which belongs to the 14th arrondissement. The design of this English landscape parks of the 19th century wore on, the then prefect, Baron Georges- Eugène Haussmann his collaborator Jean -Charles Alphand.

History

The creation of the Parc Montsouris was decided by Hausmann 1860. The Ingénieur Alphand had with the transformation of the former, temporarily serving as burial quarries significant problems. Among other things, this had to be reburied several hundred corpses. But the main problem was the future park by crossing railway lines. Work on the park began in 1867 and lasted, despite the recent opening in 1869 until 1878. On the opening day, among other things, the artificial lake to be drained away, the responsible engineer had then committed suicide.

Structures

A central architectural attraction of the park was formerly the Palais du Bardo, a former World's Fair Pavilion of 1867 in the Moorish style, which burned down after long years of neglect shortly before the planned renovation on 5 March 1991. 1872, a meteorological observatory was created in the Park of Montsouris. The Park Restaurant Le pavillon Montsouris exists since 1889 and was attended by many famous guests, such as from WI Lenin and Leon Trotsky, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre, and Marcel Carné Paul Jouvet. The Cité Universitaire station is now served by the RER B line. There is a built in 1840 former station of the Ligne de Sceaux. Since 2006 there is also a station of the new tramway line 3 Ligne de Petite Ceinture Also, a 1934 abandoned circular railway line to Paris, once crossed the park, for the most part ( 1 km) as a tunnel.