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Title Proper/Title Text
Gardens of the French Section - Horticulture française - Jardin de la Ville de Paris - "La Valetta" (general view)

Related Protagonists

• Comerio, Luca Fortunato

Inscription Language
French (Language)

Related Built Environment Objects

• Gardens of the French Section

View Type
Exterior Views

Descriptive Note Text

This is a general depiction of the gardens of the French section, which were designed by French landscape architect Jules Vacherot. Due to their picturesque morphology, the gardens were also called "La Valetta." [sic]  The Rapport Général de la Séction Française described the area with these words:

"Ils furent au nombre d'une vingtaine, mais, en leur désordre pittoresque et prémédité, si commodément groupés pour le visiteur! Regardez le plan. Les voici tous assemblés, serrés an menues taches bleues, sur les pentes de l'exquise Valetta et tout autour: à l'ombre de l'édifice exquis qui nos fit tant d'honneur, le pavillon de la Ville de Paris: à deux pas de ce restaurant français qui fut pendant six mois, sous les garnds arbres, au bord du fleuve, le rendez-vous de tous ceux de nos compatriotes qui trouvaient un peu trop éloignés de l'Exposition, aux heures où il leur plaisait de n'en point sortir encore, les fritures e les vins renommés du Cambio! (p. 402).

There were about twenty of them, but in their picturesque and premeditated disorder, so conveniently grouped for the visitor! Look at the plan. Here they are all assembled, huddled in tiny blue spots, on the slopes of the exquisite Valetta and all around. They are in the shadow of the exquisite building that did us so much honor, the pavilion of the City of Paris: a stone's throw from this French restaurant which was for six months, under the large trees, on the banks of the river, the meeting place for all those of our compatriots who found that the fried foods and renowned wines of the Restaurant Del Cambio [a historical restaurant in Turin, ndr] were a little too far from the Exhibition.

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Credit Line

 Exposition Internationale de Turin 1911. Section Française Catalogue Officiel p. 640.