Clos Jouve, Urban park in Croix-Rousse district, Lyon, France

Clos Jouve is an urban park on the Croix-Rousse plateau, laid out between Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse and Rue Pierre-Dupont. Its central feature is a large rectangular bed of dark turned earth, bordered on two sides by low rust-brown steel plates set flush with pale concrete paving, where thin leafless saplings stand and a rectangular wooden framework of posts and beams occupies the left side. A paved path runs behind the bed past a line of trees toward pale multi-storey buildings with grey roofs.

The site lay within the Chartreuse du Lys Saint-Esprit, founded in 1585, whose lands were sold as national property in 1791. In the 19th century the Jouve family owned the vineyard here and sold it to the Ministry of War; from 1840 soldiers of Fort Saint-Jean drilled on the clos Jouve, where a small barracks stood. The first official boules society, also named Le Clos Jouve, was founded in 1850, and the ground became Lyon's largest boules terrain with sixteen courts before its 2019-2020 conversion into a public garden.

A spherical sculpture in the middle of the garden recalls Fanny, the figure a boules player had to kiss after finishing a game without scoring. Legend held that Fanny was a girl from the neighbourhood. The park replaced sixteen boules lyonnaise courts, and the first official boules club here, also named Le Clos Jouve, was founded in 1850.

The site lies between Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse and Rue Pierre-Dupont, with a further edge along Rue Anselme in the 4th arrondissement. TCL bus and trolleybus lines C13, C18, 2, 45 and S4 stop at Clos Jouve. The garden opened to the public in February 2020 after work begun in 2019.

Young trees in the park display burnt inscriptions on protective slats identifying species such as Burgundy Oak, Japanese Pagoda, Hornbeam, and Chinese Soapberry. These markings allow visitors to learn about the different tree types while walking through the grounds.