French formal garden
Like other Paris parks of the 1930s, Most of the park was built as a modern version of the French formal garden of the 18th century, rather than the picturesque style of the parks of the Second Empire and the Third Republic. The Eastman Institute, at one end of the park, played the rôle of the château with which the central alley and rows of trees were aligned. Like a French formal garden, it had broad lawns and a large basin of water with fountains. The edges of the park were given more natural groves of trees, winding paths and a small stream, in the more traditional Second Empire style.