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. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Boulogne-Billancourt (often colloquially called simply Boulogne or Boulbi) is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France.

The Bois de Boulogne has an area of 8. 459 km² (3. 266 sq. miles, or 2,090 acres), which is 2. 5 times larger than Central Park in New York, and 3. Central Park is a large public Urban park in New York City, with about twenty-five million visitors annually The City of New York 3 times larger than Hyde Park in London. Hyde Park is one of the largest Parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.

At night time, the area welcomes a different scene, and becomes one of Paris' most prominent red-light districts. A red-light district is a neighborhood where Prostitution and other businesses in the Sex industry flourish

The northern part of the Bois is occupied by the Jardin d'Acclimatation, a kind of amusement park with a menagerie and other attractions. The Jardin d'Acclimatation (20 hectares 49 acres is a children's amusement park with a Menagerie, the Exploradome museum and other attractions located in the northern 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.

Contents 1 History 2 Notes 3 See also 4 References

History

These "Boulogne Woods" are a remnant of the ancient oak forest of Rouvray,^[1] which was first mentioned in 717, in the charter of Compiègne. Compiègne is a commune in the Oise département of France, of which it is a Sous-préfecture. The lands were given by Childeric II to the powerful Abbey of Saint-Denis, which founded a number of monasteries in the woodlands. Childeric II (c 653 &ndash 675 was the king of Austrasia from 662 and of Neustria and Burgundy from 673 until his death making him sole King of The Basilica of Saint Denis ( French: Basilique de Saint-Denis, or simply Basilique Saint-Denis) is the burial site of almost all the French 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. Philip II Augustus (Philippe Auguste ( 21 August[[ 165]] &ndash 14 July 1223) was the King of France from 1180 until his death In 1256, Isabelle de France, sister of Saint-Louis, founded Longchamp. Saint Isabel of France (March 1225– 23 February 1270) was the daughter of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile.

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. The Hundred Years' War (Guerre de Cent Ans was a prolonged conflict lasting from 1337 to 1453 between two royal houses for the French throne vacant with the extinction of the senior Louis XI ( July 3, 1423 – August 30, 1483) called the Prudent (le Prudent and the Universal Spider ( Middle

After François I built the Château de Madrid (completed 1526) in the Bois de Boulogne, the woodlands became a site of festivities, though highwaymen could make the roads that led through it dangerous: the intrepid voyager Pierre Belon was murdered by thieves in the Bois de Boulogne in 1564. Francis I (September 12 1494 &ndash March 31 1547 was crowned King of France in 1515 in the cathedral at Reims and reigned until 1547 The Château de Madrid was a significant Renaissance building in France. Pierre Belon (1517‑1564 was a French naturalist. He is sometimes known as Pierre Belon du Mans, or in Latin translations of his works as Petrus ^[2] The hunting park was enclosed by walls under Henri II and Henri III, with eight gates. Henry II (Henri II (31 March 1519 &ndash 10 July 1559 of the House of Valois and the son and successor of Francis I, was King of France from 31 Henry III of France (Henri III Henryk ( September 19 1551 – August 2, 1589) Henri IV planted 15000 mulberry trees, with the hope of instigating a local silk industry. Henry IV (Henri IV ( 13 December 1553 &ndash 14 May 1610) ruled as King of France from 1589 to 1610 and as Henry III His repudiated wife Marguerite de Valois retired to her refuge in the Château de la Muette, in the Bois. Marguerite de Valois ( May 14, 1553 &ndash May 27, 1615) " Queen Margot " ( La reine Margot) was Queen of The Château de la Muette is a Château located on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, near the Porte 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 manned flight in a hot-air balloon built by the Montgolfier brothers. Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier was a French Chemistry and Physics teacher and one of the first pioneers of Aviation. François Laurent Marquis d'Arlandes ( 1742 - May 1, 1809) was a pioneer of Hot air ballooning along with Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier Joseph-Michel Montgolfier ( 26 August 1740 – 26 June 1810) and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier ( 6 January 1745

In the Bois the Comte d'Artois, Louis XVI's brother,built the Château de Bagatelle. Charles X (9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836 ruled as King of France and Navarre from 20 May 1824 until the French Revolution of 1830, when he abdicated Louis XVI ( 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) Louis-Auguste de France, ruled as King of France and Navarre The Château de Bagatelle is a small Château in the Bois de Boulogne in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris. 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,^[3] 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. Napoléon III, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (full name Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte) (20 April 1808 9 January 1873 was the first President Neuilly-sur-Seine (nœji syʀ sɛn in French) is a commune bordering the western limit of the city of Paris, France. Georges-Eugène Haussmann ( March 27, 1809 &ndash January 11, 1891) who called himself Baron Haussmann, was a French Plants in the genus Carpinus ( Cár-pi-nus) are commonly called Hornbeams. For the babyfood see Beech-Nut. Beech ( Fagus) is a genus of ten Species of Deciduous Trees in the Cedar ( Cedrus) is a genus of Coniferous Trees in the Plant family Pinaceae. Chestnut ( Castanea) (including some chinkapin or Chinquapin) is a Genus of eight or nine Species of Deciduous Elms are Deciduous and Semi-deciduous Trees comprising the genus Ulmus, family Ulmaceae, found Some aspects of the transformmations 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". ^[4]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. Traditionally an avenue is a straight road with a line of Trees or large Shrubs running along each side which is used as its French source venir ("to 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. The Longchamp Racecourse ( Hippodrome de Longchamp) is a 57 hectare Horse-racing facility located on the Route des Tribunes in the Bois de Boulogne at

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 Bois de Vincennes is a park in the English landscape manner to the east of Paris. )

Notes

See also

• Château de Bagatelle
• Bois de Vincennes
• Bois de Boulogne: city in mountain region of Lebanon (Arabic: Ghābat Būlūnyā), 33 km from Beirut

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

The Château de Bagatelle is a small Château in the Bois de Boulogne in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris. The Bois de Vincennes is a park in the English landscape manner to the east of Paris.

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