Odéon in Paris in Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France — Western Europe
Le Jardin du Luxembourg
Senat
Photographed by J. Makali Bruton, June 13, 2024
1. Le Jardin du Luxembourg Marker
Senat
Au lendemain de l'assassinat du roi Henri IV, en 1610, la reine Marie de Médicis décide de faire construire une nouvelle demeure dans le quartier champêtre du Luxembourg, à proximité de la porte Saint-Michel. Elle achète l'Hôtel de François de Luxembourg et son pc de 8 hectares, puis les propriétés voisines pour se …er un vaste domaine d'une vingtaine d'hectares qui s'étend d'Est en Ouest.
La reine, née à Florence, demande à Salomon de Brosse de s'inspirer du palais Pitti de son enfance, mais l'architecte emprunters ge à la tradition française qu'au modèle italien. Quant au jardin, limité au Sud par l'enclos des Chartreux, elle en confie la composition à Boyceau de la Barauderie pour les parterres et à Thomas Francine pour les terrasses et fontaines qui seront alimentées en eau grâce à la construction de l'aqueduc d'Arcueil.
Après la "Journée des Dupes", en novembre 1630, qui consacre le pouvoir de Richelieu, Louis XIII contraint sa mère à l'exil. Elle meurt à Cologne en 1642. Ce palais princier, transformé en prison sous la Révolution, accueille depuis deux siècles une assemblée parlementaire. Le Sénat de la République y siège depuis 1879.
Le jardin conservera sans grande modification son dessin initial jusqu'à la fin du XVIII' siècle, avant d'être amputé, à l'Ouest, d'une dizaine d'hectares, vendus par le Comte de Provence, futur Louis XVIII. La nationalisation des biens des Chartreux, pendant la Révolution, permettra son extension vers le Sud et l'ouverture de la grande perspective jusqu'à l'Observatoire. Lors des grands travaux d'Haussmann, sous le Second Empire, il sera à nouveau réduit par l'ouverture des rues Médicis et Auguste Comte et par la vente de 22 hectares situés de part et d'autre de l'avenue de l'Observatoire.
L'emprise du jardin du Luxembourg, réduite à 23 hectares, et son tracé général ne seront plus modifiés. Géré et entretenu par le Sénat, ce jardin frappe par sa diversité de style, associant des parterres à la française, dont la rigueur géométrique se trouve adoucie par la courbe des terrasses, un jardin anglais, qui invite à la réverie, et des plantations de marronniers et leurs quinconces ombragés.
The Luxembourg Gardens
Senate
The day after Henry IV was assassinated in 1610 the Queen, Maria de Medici, decided to have a new residence built in the rural district of Luxembourg near the Porte Saint-Michel. She purchased the Hôtel de François de Luxembourg and its 8 hectares of grounds, and then the neighbouring properties, thus becoming the possessor of some twenty hectares extending from east to west.
The Queen, who was born in Florence, asked the architect Salomon de Brosse to take as his model the Pitti Palace of her childhood, but he followed the French rather than the Italian style. As for the garden, bounded to the south by the Enclos des Chartreux (a Carthusian monastery), the Queen Boyceau de la Barnaderie design the flower-beds and Thomas Francine design the terraces and fountains which were to be supplied with water by the Arcueil Aqueduct.
After the “Tournée des Dupes”, in November 1630, which firmly established Richelieu's power, Louis XIII sent his mother into exile. She died in Cologne in 1642. For two centuries, this princely palace, which was converted into a prison under the Revolution, boused a parliamentary assembly. It has been the home of the French Senate since 1879. The gardens remained largely as they had been designed until the end of the 18th century, when they were reduced by about ten hectares, sold off by the Comte de Provence, the future King Louis XVIII. Nationalisation of the Carthusians' property during the Revolution extended the gardens southwards and opened up an imposing view all the way to the Observatory. During the period in which Baron Haussmann was engaged on his massive redevelopment programme, the gardens were further reduced when the rue Medicis and the rue Auguste Comte were opened and also by the sale of the 22 hectares lying either side of the avenue de l'Observatoire.
With the gardens managed and maintained by the Senate, visitors are struck by their rich diversity of styles, which combines French geometric discipline, softened by the curved terraces, with the less ordered, more dreamy English design, as well as a plantation of chestnut trees whose staggered rows provide welcome shade.
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Location. 48° 50.672′ N, 2° 20.188′ E. Marker is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département de Paris. It is in Odéon. It is at the intersection of Rue Auguste Comte and Avenue de l'Observatoire, on the right when traveling east on Rue Auguste Comte. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 12 Rue Auguste Comte, Paris, Île-de-France 75006, France. Touch for directions.
Regionally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, Europe, the European Union, Atlantic Europe, the Schengen Area, Western Europe, a coastal Mediterranean country, and the Western World. Historically, it finds itself in what was once a French colony and also the Roman Empire.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: A different marker also named Le Jardin du Luxembourg (within shouting distance of this marker); L'Ecole Coloniale (within shouting distance of this marker); Lieutenant Martinet (about 180 meters away, measured in a direct line); Jean de la Revers (about 180 meters
Photographed by J. Makali Bruton, June 13, 2024
2. Le Jardin du Luxembourg Marker
The marker is attached to a small kiosk which also includes a map of the gardens.
Credits. This page was last revised on September 20, 2024. It was originally submitted on September 20, 2024, by J. Makali Bruton of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 118 times since then and 15 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on September 20, 2024, by J. Makali Bruton of Washington, District of Columbia.
