Please answer a question about the following article about Montevideo:

Parque Rodo is both a barrio (neighbourhood) of Montevideo and a park which lies mostly outside the limits of the neighbourhood itself and belongs to Punta Carretas. The name "Rodo" commemorates Jose Enrique Rodo, an important Uruguayan writer whose monument is in the southern side of the main park. The park was conceived as a French-style city park. Apart from the main park area which is delimited by Sarmiento Avenue to the south, Parque Rodo includes an amusement park; the Estadio Luis Franzini, belonging to Defensor Sporting; the front lawn of the Faculty of Engineering and a strip west of the Club de Golf de Punta Carretas that includes the Canteras ("quarry") del Parque Rodo, the Teatro de Verano ("summer theatre") and the Lago ("lake") del Parque Rodo.

Parque Rodo was originally conceived as what?
a French-style city park