page_title: Square des Batignolles
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Square des Batignolles / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Square des Batignolles (Paris, France). Français&#160;: Square des Batignolles (Paris, France).
context_page_description: The Square des Batignolles, which covers 16,615 square metres of land, is the largest green space in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. Designed in the naturalistic English-garden style, it lies in the district of Batignolles, near the new Parc Clichy-Batignolles.
context_section_description: Until the early nineteenth century, the area was largely deserted countryside with a few scattered farms.  The square was established under the Second Empire, at the request of Baron Haussmann, who fulfilled the desire of Napoleon III to establish several English-style gardens in the capital.  Napoleon III had acquired a taste for the English garden during his exile in England, prior to 1848.
  The Square des Batignolles was created by Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, assisted by the engineer, Jean Darcel, the architect, Gabriel Davioud, and the horticulturist, Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps, on a tract of land that had been described as "a vast wasteland".  This was the same team that had been assembled to design and execute the Bois de Boulogne on the western edge of Paris.
  In 1860, Napoleon III annexed the district of Batignolles to Paris. In 1862, Alphand designed and created the Square des Batignolles. Alphand was the engineer for most of the parks built at this time, including the Parc des Buttes Chaumont, Parc Montsouris, and others.
  Currently, the mayor of Paris is trying to maintain the Square des Batignolles in the pure Haussmann-Alphand style.  This style is most visible in small bridges, concrete designs with plant motifs, and faux rocks with the appearance of stratification (as at Parc des Buttes-Chaumont).
caption: Vulture statue
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