Buttes Chaumont

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The Buttes Chaumont are an island of greenery in the middle of the urban environment.

The Buttes Chaumont is a public park in Paris, in France.

It is in the north-eastern part of the city, on the site of a former gypsum quarry used for the construction of the Parisian buildings (in the central districts). The park is built on largest of these quarries.

It was created by Baron Haussmann in 1867 and later landscaped by Adolphe Alphand and Badrillet.

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• City of Paris official website: Buttes Chaumont
• Photographs in high definition of the Park

• Les Buttes Chaumont- current photographs and of the years 1900

[edit] Bibliography

• Downie, David (2005), Paris, Paris, Fort Bragg: Transatlantic Press, ISBN 0976925109: "Montsouris and Buttes-Chaumont: the art of the faux", pp. 34-41

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