ABSTRACT
Buttes-Chaumont is the justifiably acclaimed product of the design team directed by engineer Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (1817–91) and supported by horticulturist Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps (1824– 75), architect Gabriel Davioud (1824–81) and land-scape architect Edouard François André (1840–1911). Alphand and his team were responsible for reshaping the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes; for articulating the Champs-Elysées; for creating the Parc Montsouris and the gardens of the Champs de Mars, and for twenty-four other gardens and squares across Paris. These parks were part of the dramatic remodelling of Paris instigated by Napoléon III (1808–73 – Emperor 1852–70) and implemented under the direction of Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809–91), Préfet of the Seine (1853–1860) and Minister for Paris (1860–69).
