Jardins des Champs-Élysées

Le Notre planned a wide promenade between the palace and the modern Rond Point, lined with two rows of elm trees on either side, and flowerbeds in the symmetrical style of the French formal garden.

Following the French Revolution, two equestrian statues, made in 1745 by Nicolas and Tuillaume Coustou, were transferred from the former royal palace at Marly-le-Roi and placed at the beginning of the boulevard and park.

After the downfall of Napoleon and the restoration of the French monarchy, the gardens had to be replanted, because the occupation armies of the Russians, English and Prussians had camped in the park and used the trees for firewood.

That building became the Palais de Glace, or ice palace, in 1893, and then, after World War II, became a dramatic theater, the Théatre du Rond-Point, which specialized in new French plays.

[2] The modern park is divided by one of the busiest boulevards in Paris, the Champs-Élysées, but it still manages to provide quiet corners for calm, reflection and appreciation of nature.

[3] One of the most recent monuments in the park is a statue of fashion designer Pierre Cardin by the sculptor Andrei Kovalchuk, placed near the Carré des Ambassadeurs in 2011.

Plan of the Jardins des Champs-Élysées
The Fontaine du Cirque (1840) in the Jardin des Champs-Élysées
The Fontaine des Ambassadeurs, also known as the Fountain of Venus, one of the three original monumental fountains remaining from the reconstruction of the garden by Jacques Ignace Hittorff in 1840.
A view of the Jardin des Champs-Élysées in the 1860s, looking from the Rond-Point toward the Place de la Concorde
The Palace of Industry, built for the 1855 Paris Exposition, was designed to be bigger than The Crystal Palace in London. It stood until 1897, when it was demolished to make room for the Grand Palais .
A new "Chalet of Necessity" or public toilet in the Parc des Champs-Élysées photographed by Charles Marville in 1865.
The Jardin de la Vallée Suisse, a quiet corner in the southwest corner of the park
"The dream of the poet", (1910) a monument to the French poet Alfred de Musset in the Vallée Suisse garden.
The Theatre Marigny , designed in 1883 by Charles Garnier , architect of the Paris Opera .
The fountain of the water mirror, in the Square Jean Perrin.