Bois de Vincennes
In Bois de Vincennes once stood Paris’s largest public park, created between 1855 and 1866 on the orders of Emperor Napoleon III. With a total area of 995 hectares—slightly larger than the 846-hectare Bois de Boulogne—it occupied about ten percent of the city’s total area. The park’s layout reflected an English landscape garden with four lakes, alongside facilities such as a zoo, an arboretum, a botanical garden, and major sport venues including a velodrome and a hippodrome. Its story went further back than the imperial era. The grounds formed part of the ancient forest around Lutetia, when it was called Vilcena, the origin of the modern name. Around 1150, King Louis VII built a hunting lodge here, and King Louis IX later added a chapel to house a relic he believed to be the crown of thorns. …
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