. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. GARDENS OF THE LOUVRE AND THE TUILERIES. 9 best attempts in our so very much larger and busier London. The Gardens of the Louvre and the Tuileries. The Place du Carrousel, stretching between the Palaces of the Louvre and the Tuileries, is a large open paved square by no means attractive, but at its eastern end it merges into the narrower Place Napoleon III., to which I wish more par- ticularly to direct attention. The Place is
. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. GARDENS OF THE LOUVRE AND THE TUILERIES. 9 best attempts in our so very much larger and busier London. The Gardens of the Louvre and the Tuileries. The Place du Carrousel, stretching between the Palaces of the Louvre and the Tuileries, is a large open paved square by no means attractive, but at its eastern end it merges into the narrower Place Napoleon III., to which I wish more par- ticularly to direct attention. The Place is inclosed on three sides by the splendid buildings of the new Louvre, and is embellished with two little gardens surrounded by railings with gilt spears. The Place du Carrousel, surrounded by Palaces, is perfectly bare and without ornament, except the triumphal arch that stands at _ the main entrance of the court of the Tuileries, but looking to- wards the Louvre the eye is in- stantly refreshed by these little gardens, veritable oases in a wil- derness of paving stone. I know of no spot more capable of teach- ing some of the most valuable les- sons in city-gardening than this. Viewed externally from their immediate surroundings, or from the more distant Tuileries square, the gardens have a verv pretty rii , TT^T^T^TT D • . L Arc de Tnomplie du Carrousel. enect, and show at once the utility of such, not only for their own sakes, but also as an aid to architecture. On the one hand you have a space as devoid of vegetation as the desert—on the other, by the creation of the simplest types of garden, you relieve the sculptor's work in stone and the changeless lines of the great buildings by the living grace of vegetation, so as to make the scene of the most refreshing kind, and all by merely encroaching a little on the space that would other- wise be monopolized by paving stones. The gardens are very small and most simple in plan, a circle of grass, a walk, and a belt of hardy t
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