Jardins de l'avenue Foch, Urban park in 16th arrondissement, France.
The jardins de l'Avenue-Foch are the planted side lanes running along both sides of Avenue Foch in the 16th arrondissement, separating the building fronts from the wide central roadway. Adolphe Alphand laid them out in 1854 together with the avenue itself. About 600 trees remain of some 4,000 planted, among them a horse chestnut from 1852 and a Siberian elm with a 4.15-metre circumference.
The park was created in 1854 under Napoleon III as part of the Second Empire's urban renewal of Paris. This initiative aimed to increase green spaces throughout the expanding city.
Sections of the lawns are named after figures linked to the avenue: resistance fighter Pierre Brossolette, who died nearby, actresses Ingrid Bergman, Marie-France Pisier and Jean Seberg, journalist Isabelle Eberhardt and writer Nina Berberova. In 2024 a path was added honouring Samuel Pisar, one of the youngest Holocaust survivors, later an international lawyer and adviser to President Kennedy.
The gardens are not fenced and stay open around the clock. They lie on both sides of the avenue's central roadway, separated from the buildings by a side lane on each side, and are served by metro lines 2, 1 and 6, RER C at Avenue Foch station and RER A at Charles-de-Gaulle - Étoile. A drinking-water point, a picnic table and two children's play areas are on site.
Among the roughly 600 trees still standing, one Siberian elm is the largest in Paris, with a trunk circumference of 4.15 metres. A horse chestnut and two plane trees date from 1852 and 1853, planted when the gardens were laid out.
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