page_title: Jardin des Champs-Élysées
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Jardin des Champs-Élysées / Description
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le Rêve du Poète. Monument à Alfre de Musset (1910) par Alphonse Moncel dans le Jardin de la vallée suisse, Place du Canada à Paris
context_page_description: The Jardin des Champs-Élysées is a public park located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It occupies 13.7 hectares, and is located on both sides of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées between the Place de la Concorde on the east and the Rond-point des Champs-Élysées on the west and between Avenue Gabriel to the north and the Seine to the south. It includes within its boundaries the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, as well as a theater and other buildings. It was one of the first parks in the city, laid out by André Le Notre in 1667, and was the site of the Paris International Exposition of 1855 and an important part of the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900, for which the Grand Palais and Petit Palais were created.
context_section_description: The modern park is divided by one of the busiest boulevards in Paris, the Champs-Élysée, but it still manages to provide quiet corners for calm, reflection and appreciation of nature.   The most remote and quiet corner of the park lies in the southwest,  along Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt and between the Grand Palais and the Cours-la-Reine.  This section of the park is called the Vallée Suisse, or Swiss valley, and features a stream which passes under a weeping willow tree, and offers a selection of old and exotic trees.
  Another quiet small garden with a fountain, Square Jean Perrin is found just north of the Grand Palais and the Palais de la Decouverte, next to Avenue du General Eisenhower.
  The buildings within the park include: 
  The Théâtre du Rond-Point.  Originally built as the National Panorama to display large-scale historical paintings by architect Gabriel Davioud, it became the Palais de Glace, or ice palace, in 1893, then a dramatic theater after World War II.
  The Grand Palais and Palais de la Decouverte, within the same building
  The Petit Palais
  The Restaurant Ledoyen
  The Restaurant Laurent
  The Theatre Marigny,  built in 1883 by architect Charles Garnier to display large-scale historical panorama paintings, then converted to a musical theater in 1894.
  The Espace Cardin, a theater opened in 1971.
  The park contains many statues and monuments, including a statue to the poet/writer Alfred de Musset  by Alphonse Moncel (1910);  to Alphonse Daudet, by Saint-Marceaux (1902);  to the explorer Jacques Cartier;  to Georges Clemenceau, by François Cogné (1932); to Jean Moulin by George Jeanclos (1984); to Georges Pompidou by Louis Derbré (1984). and to Winston Churchill and Charles DeGaulle.  One of the most recent monuments in the park is a statue of fashion designer Pierre Cardin by the sculptor Andrei Kovalchuk, placed near the Carré des Ambassadeurs in 2011.
caption: "The dream of the poet", (1910) a monument to the French poet Alfred de Musset in the Vallée Suisse garden.
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