Édouard André

Édouard François André (French pronunciation: [edwaʁ fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃dʁe]; 17 July 1840 – 25 October 1911) was a French horticulturalist, landscape designer, as well as a leading landscape architect of the late 19th century, famous for designing city parks and public spaces in Lithuania, Monte Carlo and Montevideo.

Born into a family of nurserymen in Bourges, Cher, Édouard André assisted Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps in 1860, at the age of twenty, and participated in the redesign of the city of Paris in cooperation with Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand and Georges-Eugène Haussmann.

[1] His international career was launched in 1866, when he won the competition to design Sefton Park in Liverpool.

His experience in designing public parks was distilled in Traité général de la composition des parcs et jardins, (Masson, Paris) 1879.

[7] His pupil and assistant, Charles or Carlos Thays went to Buenos Aires in 1889 and was responsible for the planning of tree-lined boulevards and public gardens, resulting in the French atmosphere often noted in that city.