The upper lake, with rowboats

The Bois de Boulogne is a park located along the western edge of the 16^ème arrondissement of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 530 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1716 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 530 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1716 pixel, file size: 1. ... Appartment buildings in the 16th arrondissement of Paris The Stade Français rugby union fans at Parc des Princes. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) The Eiffel Tower in Paris, as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Boulogne-Billancourt is a city and commune in France, the sous-préfecture (=subprefecture) of the Hauts-de-Seine département in the ÃŽle-de-France région. ...

The Bois de Boulogne has an area of 8.459 km² (3.266 sq. miles, or 2,090 acres), which is smaller than Monsanto Park in Lisbon, but 2.5 times larger than Central Park in New York, and 3.3 times larger than Hyde Park in London. Monsanto Park was a 3. ... Location    - Country Portugal    - Region Lisboa  - Subregion Grande Lisboa  - District or A.R. Lisbon Mayor Carmona Rodrigues  - Party PSD Area 84. ... Central Park is a large public, urban park (843 acres or 3. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... “Hyde Park” redirects here. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

The northern part of the Bois is occupied by the Jardin d'Acclimatation, a kind of amusement park with a menagerie and other attractions. Inside the Jardin dAcclimatation The Jardin dAcclimatation is a kind of amusement park with a menagerie and other attractions located in the northern part of the Bois de Boulogne, in Paris. ... Menagerie is the term for a historical form of keeping wild and exotic animals in human captivity and therefore a predecessor of the modern zoological garden. ...

History

The Bois de Boulogne is a remnant of the ancient oak forest of Rouvray^[1], which was first mentioned in 717, in the charter of Compiègne. The lands were given by Childeric II to the powerful Abbey of Saint-Denis, which founded a number of monasteries. Philip Augustus bought back the main part of the forest from the monks of St Denis to create a royal hunting reserve on Crown lands. In 1256, Isabelle de France, sister of Saint-Louis, founded Longchamp During the Hundred Years War, the forest became the haunt of robbers; in 1416-17 troops of the Duke of Burgundy burned part of Rouvroy Forest; Under Louis XI, the estate, now called the Bois de Boulogne, was reforested and two roads were opened through it. There are communes that have the name Rouvray in France: Rouvray, in the Côte-dOr département Rouvray, in the Eure département Rouvray, in the Yonne département Related Rouvray-Catillon, in the Seine-Maritime département Rouvray-Saint-Denis, in the Eure-et-Loir département... Compiègne is a commune in the Oise département of France, of which it is a sous-préfecture. ... Childeric II (c. ... The Basilica of Saint Denis (in French, la Basilique de Saint-Denis), a famous burial site for French monarchs, is located in Saint Denis (near Paris). ... Philip II (French: Philippe II), called Philip Augustus (French: Philippe Auguste) (August 21, 1165 - July 14, 1223), was King of France from 1180 to 1223. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Louis XI the Prudent (French: Louis XI le Prudent) (July 3, 1423 – August 30, 1483), also informally nicknamed luniverselle aragne (old French for universal spider), or the Spider King, was King of France (1461–1483). ...

Inside the Jardin d'Acclimatation

After François I built the Château de Madrid (completed 1526) in the Bois de Boulogne, the woodlands became a site of festivities. The hunting park was enclosed by walls under Henri II and Henri III, with eight gates. Henri IV planted 15000 mulberry trees, with the hope of instigating a local silk industry. His repudiated wife Marguerite de Valois retired to her refuge in the Château de la Muette, in the Bois. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2592x1944, 2238 KB) Inside the Jardin dacclimatation, Paris Copyright © 2005 David Monniaux Template:Cc-by-sa-2. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2592x1944, 2238 KB) Inside the Jardin dacclimatation, Paris Copyright © 2005 David Monniaux Template:Cc-by-sa-2. ... Francis I of France - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Château de Madrid in an 18th century engraving by Jacques Rigaud. ... Henry II (French: Henri II) (March 31, 1519 – July 10, 1559), a member of the Valois Dynasty, was King of France from March 31, 1547, until his death. ... Henry III (French: Henri III; September 19, 1551 – August 2, 1589), born Alexandre-Édouard, was a member of the Valois Dynasty, King of France from May 30, 1574 until his death. ... Henry IV of France, also Henry III of Navarre (13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), ruled as King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. ... Species See text. ... Marguerite de Valois [1] [2] (May 14, 1553 – May 27, 1615), Queen Margot (La reine Margot) was Queen of France and Navarre. ... Marguerite de Valois, an early resident of the Château de la Muette. ...

In November 1783, from the grounds of the Château de la Muette, Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes made the first successful flight in a hot-air balloon built by the Montgolfier brothers. Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wikisource. ... The Montgolfier brothers, Joseph Michel Montgolfier (August 26, 1740 – June 26, 1810) and Jacques Étienne Montgolfier (January 6, 1745 – August 2, 1799), inventors of the montgolfière hot air balloon. ...

Édouard Manet: Racecourse in the Bois de Boulogne (1864)

The site was made into a park by Napoleon III in 1852; in the following years it was informally landscaped with open lawns and woodlands of hornbeam, beech, linden, cedar, chestnut and elm trees and hardy exotic species, like redwoods. All the formal allées, with the exceptions of the Allée Reine Marguerite and the Avenue Longchamp were made serpentine: there are thirty-five kilometres of footpaths, eight kilometres of cycle paths and twenty-nine kilometres of riding tracks. The upper and lower lakes, connected by a waterfall, were created; the excavated earth was used to create the Butte Mortemart. Between 1855 and 1858, the Hippodrome de Longchamp was built on the plain of the same name. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2536x2011, 561 KB) Description:  Title: de: Rennen im Bois de Boulogne Technique: de: Öl auf Leinwand Dimensions: de: 73 × 92 cm Country of origin: de: Frankreich Current location (city): de: New York Current location (gallery): de: Sammlung J. H. Whitney Other... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2536x2011, 561 KB) Description:  Title: de: Rennen im Bois de Boulogne Technique: de: Öl auf Leinwand Dimensions: de: 73 × 92 cm Country of origin: de: Frankreich Current location (city): de: New York Current location (gallery): de: Sammlung J. H. Whitney Other... Articles with similar titles include Claude Monet, another painter of the same era. ... Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (April 20, 1808 - January 9, 1873) was the son of King Louis Bonaparte and Queen Hortense de Beauharnais; both monarchs of the French puppet state, the Kingdom of Holland. ... An avenue at Alexandra Park, London. ... Races at Lonchamp - Édouard Manet, 1867 The Hippodrome de Longchamp, commonly referred to as Longchamp, is a 57 hectare horse-racing facility located on the Route des Tribunes in the Bois de Boulogne at Paris, France. ...

The Bois de Boulogne was officially annexed by the city of Paris in 1929, and was incorporated into the 16^ème arrondissement. (Like the Bois de Vincennes, it is however generally not counted as part of Paris proper, since it only consists of public land with no population except for custodians.) The lake Hippodrome de Vincennes The Bois de Vincennes is a park in the English landscape manner to the east of Paris. ...

Notes

1. ^ Its name is commemorated in the communes of Rouvray-Catillon and Rouvray-St-Denis.

See also

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Bois de Boulogne

• Château de Bagatelle
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Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... The Wikimedia Commons (also called Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ... The Château de Bagatelle is a small château in the Bois de Boulogne in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris. ... The lake Hippodrome de Vincennes The Bois de Vincennes is a park in the English landscape manner to the east of Paris. ...

References

• Michael Oborne, "History of the Château de la Muette" in the Bois de Boulogne
• Jocelen Janon, "A Brief History of Bagatelle" in the Bois de Boulogne

Coordinates: 48°51′53″N, 2°15′03″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...