Parc Monceau
Limited to the north by the Boulevard de Courcelles, Monceau Park is surrounded by several streets or avenues, the piercing is funded by the Pereire brothers, and lined with luxury mansions, some of which face the park. Most of these roads are named after great painters of the seventeenth century: Velasquez Avenue, Ruysdael Avenue, Van Dyck Avenue, Rembrandt Street, Murillo Street. The park is crossed by Ferdousi Avenue, the Michel-Berger alley and the Comtesse-de-Ségur alley.
The park includes a rotunda, former pavilion, directed by Claude Nicolas Ledoux, wall Farmers General.
A few steps away is the Naumachie, an oval basin bordered by a Corinthian colonnade that comes from a church of Saint-Denis destroyed in 1719. Nearby stands a large arcade Renaissance style, relic of the City Hall of Paris burned in 1871 (there are also fragments of columns) 1.
Marble statues of writers and musicians are at the bends of the groves; they represent Maupassant, work of Verlet, Chopin by Froment-Meurice, Gounod and Musset by Mercié, Ambroise Thomas by Alexandre Falguière or Édouard Pailleron by Bernstamm. The park is surrounded by luxury buildings and mansions