Château de Bagatelle (Paris) | castle

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The Château de Bagatelle is a small neoclassical château with a French landscape garden in the Bois de Boulogne in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris. The château, actually a maison de plaisance intended for brief stays while hunting in the Bois in a party atmosphere, was initially built as a small hunting lodge for the Maréchal d'Estrées in 1720.

The formal garden spaces surrounding the château, which was linked to its dependencies by underground tunnels, was expanded with a surrounding park in the naturalistic English landscape style by the Scottish garden-designer Thomas Blaikie, and dotted with sham ruins, an obelisk, a pagoda, primitive hermits' huts and grottoes.
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Coordinates:   48°52'18"N   2°14'50"E
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