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The Jardin du Luxembourg , known in English as the Luxembourg Garden, colloquially referred to as the Jardin du Sénat (Senate Garden), is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. The creation of the garden began in 1612 when Marie de' Medici, the widow of King Henry IV, constructed the Luxembourg Palace as her new residence. The garden today is owned by the French Senate, which meets in the Palace. It covers 23 hectares (56.8 acres) and is known for its lawns, tree-lined promenades, tennis courts, flowerbeds, model sailboats on its octagonal Grand Bassin, as well as picturesque Medici Fountain, built in 1620. The name Luxembourg comes from the Latin Mons Lucotitius, the name of the hill where the garden is located

The Luxembourg gardens as seen from the Montparnassse tower, Paris

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La rentrée vue par Anatole France

Je vais vous dire ce que me rappellent tous les ans, le ciel agité de l’automne, les premiers dîners à la lampe et les feuilles qui jaunissent dans les arbres qui frissonnent ; je vais vous dire ce que je vois quand je traverse le Luxembourg dans les premiers jours d’octobre, alors qu’il est un peu triste et plus beau que jamais ; car c’est le temps où les feuilles tombent une à une sur les blanches épaules des statues.

Ce que je vois alors dans ce jardin, c’est un petit bonhomme qui, les mains dans les poches et sa gibecière au dos, s’en va au collège en sautillant comme un moineau.

Ma pensée seule le voit ; car ce petit bonhomme est une ombre ; c’est l’ombre du moi que j’étais il y a vingt-cinq ans ; Vraiment, il m’intéresse, ce petit : quand il existait, je ne me souciais guère de lui ; mais, maintenant qu’il n’est plus, je l’aime bien.

Il valait mieux, en somme, que les autres moi que j’ai eus après avoir perdu celui-là. Il était bien étourdi; mais il n’était pas méchant, et je dois lui rendre cette justice qu’il ne m’a pas laissé un seul mauvais souvenir ; c’est un innocent que j’ai perdu : il est bien naturel que je le regrette ; il est bien naturel que je le voie en pensée et que mon esprit s’amuse à ranimer son souvenir.

Il y a vingt-cinq ans, à pareille époque, il traversait, avant huit heures, ce beau jardin pour aller en classe. Il avait le coeur un peu serré : c’était la rentrée.

Pourtant, il trottait, ses livres sur son dos, et sa toupie dans sa poche. L’idée de revoir ses camarades lui remettait de la joie au coeur. Il avait tant de choses à dire et à entendre! Ne lui fallait-il pas savoir si Laboriette avait chassé pour de bon dans la forêt de l’Aigle ? Ne lui fallait-il pas répondre qu’il avait, lui, monté à cheval dans les montagnes d’Auvergne ? Quand on fait une pareille chose, ce n’est pas pour la tenir cachée. Et puis c’est si bon de retrouver des camarades! Combien il lui tardait de revoir Fontanet, son ami, qui se moquait si gentiment de lui, Fontanet qui, pas plus gros qu’un rat et plus ingénieux qu’Ulysse, prenait partout la première place avec une grâce naturelle !

Il se sentait tout léger, à la pensée de revoir Fontanet.

C’est ainsi qu’il traversait le Luxembourg dans l’air frais du matin. Tout ce qu’il voyait alors, je le vois aujourd’hui.

C’est le même ciel et la même terre; les choses ont leur âme d’autrefois, leur âme qui m’égaye et m’attriste, et me trouble ; lui seul n’est plus.

C’est pourquoi, à mesure que je vieillis, je m’intéresse de plus en plus à la rentrée des classes.

Anatole France

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Anatole FRANCE (1844-1924).

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The Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, Oil On Canvas by Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905

Luxembourg Gardens. Paris. (1930)

Vue du bassin à l'automne

It is easy to be happy in Paris and if you go to the Luxembourg Gardens on a clear afternoon in early Autumn the sun will be shining into the lower branches of the almost leaf-fallen trees and people will be facing their chairs to feel its warmth.

Fin d'après midi d'automne

Parmi les statues aux blanches épaules, voici celle que je préfère: la belle Marguerite de Navarre.

The statue of the Greek goddess Artemis (Latin: Diana), with a deer, The statue is also known as Diana à la Biche, Diane Chasseresse ("Diana Huntress"), Artemis of the Chase, and Artemis with the Hind.

View of the Pantheon from the Luxembourg Palace

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The Panthéon (Latin: pantheon, from Greek πάνθειον (ἱερόν) '(temple) to all the gods') is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris. It was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve and to house the reliquary châsse containing her relics but, after many changes, now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens.
The inscription above the entrance reads AUX GRANDS HOMMES LA PATRIE RECONNAISSANTE ( "To great men, the grateful homeland").
Among those buried in its necropolis are Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Jean Moulin, Louis Braille, Jean Jaurès and Soufflot, its architect. In 1907 Marcellin Berthelot was buried with his wife Mme Sophie Berthelot, the first woman to be interred. Marie Curie was the first woman interred based on her own merits. Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz and Germaine Tillion, heroines of the French resistance, were interred in 2015.

Inside panoramic view of the Panthéon.

Le Panthéon national
The Panthéon
General information
Type	Mausoleum
Architectural style	Neoclassicism
Location	Paris, France
Construction started	1758
Completed	1790
Design and construction
Architect	Jacques-Germain Soufflot Jean-Baptiste Rondele

Beautiful autumn colours at the Jardin du Luxembourg

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Borders of annuals in August

Jardin du Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Palace, Paris

The Jardin du Luxembourg, or the Luxembourg Garden, located in the 6tharrondissement of Paris, was created beginning in 1612 by Marie de' Medici, the widow of King Henry IV of France, for a new residence she constructed, the Luxembourg Palace. The garden today is owned by the French Senate, which meets in the Palace. The park, which covers 23 hectares, is known for its lawns, tree-lined promenades, flowerbeds, the model sailboats on its circular basin, and for the picturesque Medici Fountain, built in 1620.

The Luxembourg gardens as seen from the Montparnassse tower, Paris

French Senate seen from Luxembourg Gardens

In 1611, Marie de' Medici, the widow of Henry IV and the regent for the King Louis XIII decided to build a palace in imitation of the Pitti Palace in her native Florence. She purchased the hotel du Luxembourg (today the Petit-Luxembourg palace) and began construction of the new palace. She commissioned Salomon de Brosse to build the palace and a fountain, which still exists. In 1612 she planted 2,000 elm trees, and directed a series of gardeners, most notably Tommaso Francini, to build a park in the style she had known as a child in Florence. Francini planned two terraces with balustrades and parterres laid out along the axis of the chateau, aligned around a circular basin. He also built the Medici Fountain to the east of the palace as a nympheum, an artificial grotto and fountain, without its present pond and statuary. The original garden was just eight hectares in size.

In 1630 she bought additional land and enlarged the garden to thirty hectares, and entrusted the work to Jacques Boyceau de la Barauderie, the independant of the royal gardens of Tuileries and the early garden of Versailles. He was one of the early theorists of the new and more formal garden à la française, and he laid out a series of squares along an east-west alley closed at the east end by the Medici Fountain, and a rectangle of parterres with broderies of flowers and hedges in front of the palace. In the center he placed an octagonal basin with a fountain, with a perspective toward what is now the Paris observatory.

Later monarchs largely neglected the garden. In 1780, the Comte de Provence, the future Louis XVIII, sold the eastern part of the garden for real estate development. Following the French Revolution, however, the leaders of the French Directory expanded the garden to forty hectares by confiscating the land of the neighboring religious order of the Carthusian monks. The architect Jean Chalgrin, the architect of the Arc de Triomphe, took on the task of restoring the garden. He remade the Medici Fountain and laid out a long perspective from the palace to the observatory. He preserved the famous pepiniere, or nursery garden of the Carthusian order, and the old vineyards, and kept the garden in a formal French style.

During and after the July Monarchy of 1848, the park became the home of a large population of statues; first the Queens and famous women of France, lined along the terraces; then, in 1880s and 1890s, monuments to writers and artists, a small-scale model by Bartholdi of his Statue of Libertyand one modern sculpture by Zadkine.

In 1865, during the reconstruction of Paris by Louis Napoleon, the rue de l'Abbé de l'Épée, (now rue Auguste-Comte) was extended into the park, cutting off about seven hectares, including a large part of the old nursery garden. The building of new streets next to the park also required moving and rebuilding the Medici Fountain to its present location. The long basin of the fountain was added at this time, along with the the statues at the foot of th efountain.

During this reconstruction, the director of parks and promenades of Paris, Gabriel Davioud, built new ornamental gates and fences around the park, and polychrome brick garden houses. He also transformed what remained of the old Chartreux nursery garden, at the south end of the park, into an English garden with winding paths, and planted a fruit garden in the southwest corner. He kept the regular geometric pattern of the paths and alleys, but did create one diagonal alley near the Medici fountain which opened a view of the Pantheon.

The garden in the late nineteenth century contained a marionette theater, a music kiosk. greenhouses, an apiary or bee-house; an orangerie also used for displaying sculpture and modern art (used until the 1930s); a rose garden, the fruit orchard, and about seventy works of sculpture.

The garden is largely devoted to a green parterre of gravel and lawn populated with statues and centred on a large octagonal basin of water, with a central jet of water; in it children sail model boats. The garden is famed for its calm atmosphere. Surrounding the bassin on the raised balustraded terraces are a series of statues of former French queens, saints and copies after the Antique. In the southwest corner, there is an orchard of apple and pear trees and the théâtre des marionnettes (puppet theatre). The gardens include a large fenced-in playground for young children and their parents and a vintage carousel. In addition, free musical performances are presented in a gazebo on the grounds and there is a small cafe restaurant nearby, under the trees, with both indoor and outdoor seating from which many people enjoy the music over a glass of wine. The orangerie displays art, photography and sculptures.

The École nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris and the Odéon theatre stand next to the Luxembourg Garden.

Fountain of the Observatory

The central axis of the garden is extended, beyond its wrought iron grill and gates opening to rue Auguste Comte, by the central esplanade of the rue de l'Observatoire, officially the Jardin Marco Polo, where sculptures of the four Times of Day alternate with columns and culminate at the southern end with the 1874 "Fountain of the Observatory", also known as the "Fontaine des Quatre-Parties-du-Monde" or the "Carpeaux Fountain", for its sculptures by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. It was installed as part of the development of the avenue de l'Observatoire by Gabriel Davioud in 1867.

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The bronze fountain represents the work of four sculptors: Louis Vuillemot carved the garlands and festoons around the pedestal,Pierre Legrain carved the armillary with interior globe and zodiac band; the animalier Emmanuel Fremiet designed the eight horses, marine turtles and spouting fish. Most importantly Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux sculpted the four nude women supporting the globe, representing the Four Continents of classical iconography.

Monument to Jean-Antoine Watteau, by Henri Désiré Gauquié, 1896
Henri Désiré Gauquié (Français, 1856-1943): Monument à Jean-Antoine Watteau (1896), composé du buste en étain représentant le peintre Antoine Watteau et d'une figure de la Jeunesse en marbre, Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg.

Gardens in front of the Palais du Luxembourg

Panoramic view of the Jardin du Luxembourg

Marie de Médicis' fountain, now with Polyphemus Surprising Acis and Galatea, by Auguste Ottin (1866)

The Fountain "Marie de Médicis", in the garden of Luxembourg, Paris. In the background, to the right side, the dome of the Pantheon of Paris. This panorama is made of three pictures stitched with Hugin.

Paris - Luxembourg Quarter: Jardin du Luxembourg - Fontaine de Médicis - Galatée dans des bras d'Acis le berger

Acis et Galatée, par Poussin (ca. 1627), National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin)

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Acis était un jeune berger de Sicile, fils du dieu Pan et de la nymphe Symaethis, et l'amant de Galatée, une des Néréides (nymphe marine), fille de Nérée et de Doris.

Mais Acis fut victime de la jalousie du cyclope Polyphème, également amoureux de Galatée mais disqualifié par ses traits monstrueux. Polyphème, ayant surpris les deux amants, arracha un rocher de l'Etna et le précipita sur Acis. Galatée, voyant des filets de sang sourdre sous le rocher, pria les dieux de le changer en un fleuve pour qu'il puisse rejoindre la mer. Cette version fut chantée par Théocrite dans sa onzième Idylle.

Une autre version de la légende, où Polyphème séduit finalement Galatée par son talent à jouer de la syrinx, aura moins de succès.

Dans sa grotte, Polyphène le cyclope, est amoureux de la nymphe Galatée

Le déplacement et le nouveau bassin donnèrent lieu à une nouvelle ornementation des niches de la fontaine. Les travaux de sculpture furent confiés à Auguste, Louis Ottin (1811-1890).

La niche centrale est occupée par un groupe en marbre représentant Acis et Galathée couchés sous un rocher au sommet duquel apparaît la figure colossale en bronze de Polyphème s’apprêtant à lancer sur son rival la pierre qui doit lui donner la mort.

Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire: Archidamas, Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg

A version of the Arrotino under a beech

Fontaine de l'Observatoire, Paris | by Monceau

Fontaine de l'Observatoire, at southern end Luxemburg Gardens

Original model of the Statue of Liberty

The Pool in front of the Palais de Luxembourg

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The Jardin du Luxembourg, or the Luxembourg Gardens, is the second largest public park in Paris (224,500 m² (22.5hectares) located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park is the garden of the French Senate, which is itself housed in the Luxembourg Palace.

In 1611, Marie de Medicis, the widow of Henry IV and the regent for the KingLouis XIII decided to build a palace in imitation of the Pitti Palace in her nativeFlorence. She purchased the hotel du Luxembourg (today the Petit-Luxembourg palace) and began construction of the new palace. She commissioned Salomon de Brosse to build the palace and a fountain, which still exists. In 1612 she planted 2,000 elm trees, and directed a series of gardeners, most notably Tommaso Francini, to build a park in the style she had known as a child in Florence. Francini planned two terraces with balustrades and parterres laid out along the axis of the chateau, aligned around a circular basin. He also built the Medici Fountain to the east of the palace as a nympheum, an artificial grotto and fountain, without its present pond and statuary. The original garden was just eight hectares in size.

In 1630 she bought additional land and enlarged the garden to thirty hectares, and entrusted the work to Jacques Boyceau de la Barauderie, the indendant of the royal gardens of Tuileries and the early garden of Versailles. He was one of the early theorists of the new and more formal garden à la française, and he laid out a series of squares along an east-west alley closed at the east end by the Medici Fountain, and a rectangle of parterres with broderies of flowers and hedges in front of the palace. In the center he placed an octagonal basin with a fountain, with a perspective toward what is now the Paris observatory.

Luxembourg Palace and Gardens

Marguerite de Navarre (French: Marguerite d'Angoulême, Marguerite d'Alençon; 11 April 1492 – 21 December 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was the wife of Henry II of Navarre. Her brother became King of France, asFrancis I and the two siblings were responsible for the celebrated intellectual and cultural court and salons of their day in France.

People relaxing in Luxembourg Gardens

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The Medici Fountain (La fontaine Médicis) was built in 1630 by Marie de' Medici, the widow of King Henry IV of France and regent of King Louis XIII of France. It was designed by Tomasso Francini, a Florentine fountain maker and hydraulic engineer who was brought from Florence to France by King Henry IV. It was in the form of a grotto, a popular feature of the Italian Renaissance garden.