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10 unusual facts about Bois de Boulogne


Chrétien Urhan

On another occasion, while walking in the Bois de Boulogne, a voice came into his mind and instructed him to write down a tune.

Hotel Russell

It is distinctively clad in decorative thé-au-lait ("tea with milk") terracotta, and was based on the Château de Madrid on the Bois de Boulogne in Paris.

Jacques Ignace Hittorff

Hittorff also designed the Circus of the Empress, the Rotunda of the panoramas, the Gare du Nord (1861–63), many cafés and restaurants on the Champs-Élysées, the facades forming the circle round the Arc de Triomphe in Place de l'Étoile, besides many embellishments in the Bois de Boulogne and other places.

Jean Gimpel

Gimpel was brought up in luxury in a house in the Bois de Boulogne, though he went on to be educated in both France and Britain.

Notre Paradis

Later that night he finds an unconscious teenager in the Bois de Boulogne (a cruising park) who was apparently also hustling and has been beaten and robbed.

O'Higgins Park

In 1870, the government gave the northern portion of the terrain to the rich heir and philanthropist Luis Cousiño, who inspired by the parks he saw in Europe —like Hyde Park in London or the Bois de Boulogne in Paris— decided to give one to his own city.

Prix du Bois

It takes its name from the Bois de Boulogne, the location of its former home, and the Avenue du Bois (now the Avenue Foch), which leads towards the racecourse.

Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford

Lord Hertford lived mostly in Paris, in a large apartment in the city and, from 1848, the Château de Bagatelle, a small country house in the Bois de Boulogne on the outskirts.

Ruth Klüger – Aliav

In October 1945, David Ben-Gurion arrived in Paris and, to avoid eavesdroppers, he and Klüger Aliav went for a four-hour walk in the Bois de Boulogne.

Tout-Paris

Le Tout-Paris was associated with particular fashionable places in the city, such as the restaurant (Maxim's, the large urban forest the Bois de Boulogne, Deauville, and so on, defining trends, giving an artist or writer their blessing, making or unmaking the reputation of a politician.


Élisabeth, Countess Greffulhe

Gabriel Fauré dedicated to her his Pavane, which received its first full performance, with the optional chorus, at a garden party she held in the Bois de Boulogne.

Gabriel Poulain

He made several attempts to achieve human-powered flight and in July 1921 won a prize of 10,000 francs awarded by Peugeot for a flight of ten metres at a height of one metre, on a bicycle with two wing planes in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris.

Georges Bouton

Georges Bouton was the nominal winner of the 'world's first motor race' on 28 April 1887, when he drove a de Dion-Bouton vehicle 2 kilometers from Neuilly Bridge to the Bois de Boulogne.

Longchamps, Buenos Aires

The city owes its name to the race track of the same name located on the Route des Tribunes in the Bois de Boulogne at Paris, France, in which the Sociedad Hípica de Lomas de Zamora (Hipic Society of Lomas de Zamora) inspired to name the city's racecourse.

Standard Athletic Club

In its early days, the Club was simply a loose association of young Britons who wanted to play sport together in the bois de Boulogne, but gradually grew to a size where playing fields were rented in 1906 at the Val d’Or in Suresnes.