skating at night in the bois de boulogne 1867 Ice skates sports frozen water lake
Bois de Boulogne is a park located along the western edge of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt. The Bois de Boulogne covers an area of km² ( sq. miles, or 2,090 acres), which is times larger than Central Park in New York, and times larger than Hyde Park in London. The northern part of the Bois de Boulogne is occupied by the Jardin d'Acclimatation, an amusement park with a menagerie and other attractions. At night time, the area becomes one of Paris's most prominent red-light districts, though in recent years the French government has sought to eliminate prostitution in the park. The site was made into a park by Napoleon III in 1852, and, financed by selling building lots along the north end of the Bois, in Neuilly, it was landscaped under the direction of the Baron Haussmann; 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. Some aspects of the transformations were clearly the result of Louis Napoléon's exile in London: '"we must have a stream here, as in Hyde Park," he observed while driving through the Bois, "to give life to this arid promenade". 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. Between 1855 and 1858, the Hippodrome de Longchamp was built on the plain of the same name.
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