Champs Elysées In Paris
Image by Stuck in Customs via Flickr The Champs-Elysees was initially fields and market gardens, until 1616, when Marie de Medici decided to expand the garden axis of the Palais des Tuileries by means of an street of trees. Guillaume de L’Isle’s map of The french capital shows that a small stretch of roads and fields in addition to market garden plots still separated the imposing axe of the Tuileries gardens from the planted “Avenue des Tuilleries” as late as [...]









