Parc de Bagatelle

Visited this beautiful garden inside Bois de Boulogne which is nice to do on a weekend.

Brief History of Bagatelle

In the eighteenth century the west part of the 'Bois de Boulogne', near Paris, was an area where several members of the royal family and their favourites used for the building of discreet and rural hideouts, away from the court.

In 1720 The Duke of Estree built the original house for his wife, this house was sold in 1772 to the Comte of Artois, brother of Louis XVI, The King of France. By 1860 the domain was surrounded by the public part of the 'Bois de Boulogne', a forest landscaped between 1853 and 1860 as a 'public promenade. After some difficult negotiations the City of Paris bought the domain in 1905.

Paris established a plan wanting to create a park as

- A witness of the history and styles of the garden history of the 18th and 19th centuries
- A garden to demonstrate gardening technics
- A garden to present the newly created plants.














These sculptures must be art nouveau














a wildcat...