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TEC4613840: The Parc des Buttes Chaumont, Paris 19th arrondissement. On the will of Napoleon III (1808-1873) to offer the laborious classes green lungs, the park was brought to old gypsum quarries, which explains its topography. Adolphe Alphand (1817-1891), grand authorizer of Parisian parks with architect engineer Alfred Darcel (1818-1893) drew up the plan of the park. The landscape artist Pierre Barillet Deschamps (1824-1873) planted the park from 1866. Gabriel Davioud (1824-1881) built the restaurant, the guard house, the brewery and the Sibyl temple. Photography 2005. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4614019: Statue of Jean-Dominique Cassini in Paris - Giovanni Dominico Cassini Statue -Paris: View of the statue of Giovanni Dominico Cassini (1625-1712), in the courtyard Napoleon of the Louvre. At the request of Louis XIV, he became the first director of the Paris Observatory from 1671 / Bridgeman Images
MDA4614272: Rotunda by Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) Place Stalingrad, Paris 75019. It is one of the four remains of the enclosure of the Farmers Generaux with that of the Monceau parks, the Denfert Rochereau and the columns of the Trone. Built in 1786, this rotunda evokes the Rotonda de Palladio in Vicenze (Italy). This barrier served as a gendarmerie barracks from 1830 to 1860, and then as a storage room for salt. Restauree, it is now occupied by the Commission du Vieux Paris. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4614913: Mars and its satellites seen with an amateur telescope - Mars with its moons through an amateur telescope - Composite image of the planet Mars accompanied by its two moving satellites, Phobos (left) and Deimos (right). Image taken with a C14 and a webcam on August 28, 2003 in Namibia. Composite image of planet Mars with its moons. Image taken on August 28 2003 from Namibia with a C14 telescope and a webcam. Phobos is moving on the left of the image, Deimos at right / Bridgeman Images