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The Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden
Botanical garden

Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes. Botanists and horticulturalists tend the flora and maintain the garden's library and herbarium of dried and documented plant material....
 in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
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The Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden
Botanical garden

Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes. Botanists and horticulturalists tend the flora and maintain the garden's library and herbarium of dried and documented plant material....
 in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. It is one of seven departments of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

The Mus?um national d'Histoire naturelle is the France national museum of natural history....
. It is situated in the 5ème arrondissement, Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, on the left bank
Rive Gauche

La Rive Gauche is the southern bank of the river Seine in Paris. Here, the river flows roughly westwards, cutting the city into two: the Rive Droite , to the north and the Rive Gauche , to the south....
 of the river Seine
Seine

The Seine is a slow flowing major river and commercial waterway within Regions of France of ?le-de-France and Haute-Normandie in France and famous as a romantic backdrop in photographs of Paris, France....
 and covers 28 hectares (280,000 m²).

Garden plan

The grounds of the Jardin des Plantes includes four galleries of the Muséum: the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution
Evolution

In biology, evolution is change in the heritability trait of a population of organisms from one generation to the next. These changes are caused by a combination of three main processes: variation, reproduction, and selection....
, the Mineralogy
Mineralogy

Mineralogy is an Earth Science focused around the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical properties of minerals. Specific studies within mineralogy include the processes of mineral origin and formation, classification of minerals, their geographical distribution, as well as their utilization....
 Museum, the Paleontology
Paleontology

File:Geological time spiral - sharper.pngPaleontology from Greek: pa?a??? "old, ancient", ??, ??t- "being, creature", and ????? "speech, thought" is the study of prehistory life, including organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments ....
 Museum and the Entomology
Entomology

Entomology is the science study of insects. At some 1.3 million described species, insects account for more than two-thirds of all known organisms,date back some 400 million years, and have many kinds of interactions with humans and other forms of life on earth....
 Museum. In addition to the gardens there is also an aquarium
Aquarium

An aquarium is a vivarium consisting of at least one transparent side in which water-dwelling plants or animals are kept. fishkeeping use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, marine mammals, turtles, and aquatic plants....
 and a small zoo
Zoo

A Zoology garden, abbreviated to zoo, is an institution in which living animals are exhibited in captivity. In addition to their status as tourist attractions and recreational facilities, modern zoos may engage in captive breeding programs, conservation study, and educational outreach....
, founded in 1795 by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre from animals of the royal menagerie
Menagerie

Menagerie is the term for a historical form of keeping calm and exotic animals in human captivity and therefore a predecessor of the modern zoological garden....
 at Versailles
Versailles

Versailles , formerly de facto capital of the kingdom of France, is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and is still an important administrative and judicial centre....
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The Jardin des Plantes maintains a botanical school, which trains botanists
Botany

Botany, plant science, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of biology and is the Scientific method of plant life and development....
, constructs demonstration gardens, and exchanges seeds to maintain biotic diversity. About 4500 plants are arranged by family on a one hectare (10,000 m²) plot.

Three hectares are devoted to horticultural
Horticulture

'Horticulture' is the industry and science of plant cultivation. Horticulturists work and conduct research in the disciplines of plant propagation and cultivation, Crop , plant breeding and genetic engineering, plant biochemistry, and plant physiology....
 displays of decorative plants. An Alpine
Alpine climate

Alpine climate is the average weather for a region above the tree line. The climate becomes colder at high elevations—this characteristic is described by the adiabatic lapse rate of air: air tends to get colder as it rises, since it expands....
 garden has 3000 species with world-wide representation. Specialized buildings, such as a large Art Deco
Art Deco

Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film....
 wintergarden, and Mexican and Australian hothouse
Greenhouse

A greenhouse is a building where plants are cultivated.A greenhouse is a structure with a glass or plastic roof and frequently glass or plastic walls; it heats up because incoming solar radiation from the sun warms plants, soil, and other things inside the building....
s display regional plants, not native to France. The Rose Garden, created in 1990, has hundreds of species of rose
Rose

A rose is a perennial plant flower shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, that contains over 100 species and comes in a variety of colors....
s and rose trees.

History

Jardin Des Plantes
The garden was originally planted by Guy de La Brosse
Guy de La Brosse

Guy de La Brosse , was a French botanist, doctor, and pharmacist. A physician to Louis XIII of France, he is also notable for the creation of a major botanical garden of Herbalism, which was commissioned by the king....
, Louis XIII
Louis XIII of France

Louis XIII reigned as List of French monarchs and List of Navarrese monarchs from 1610 to 1643....
's physician, in 1626 as a medicinal herb garden. It was originally known as the Jardin du Roi. In 1640 it opened to the public.

After a period of decline, Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Jean-Baptiste Colbert served as the Controller-General of Finances from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of Louis XIV of France. He was described by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de S?vign? as "Le Nord", because he was cold and unemotional....
 took administrative control of the gardens. Dr. Guy Crescent Fagon was appointed in 1693, and he surrounded himself with a team of brilliant botanists, including Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was a France botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants....
, Antoine de Jussieu
Antoine de Jussieu

Antoine de Jussieu was a France Natural history.Jussieu was born in Lyon, the son of Christophe de Jussieu , an apothecary of some repute, who published a Nouveau trait? de la theriaque ....
, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu was a France botanist, notable as the first to propose a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today....
 and his son Adrien-Henri
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu

Adrien-Henri de Jussieu was a France botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae....
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The Comte de Buffon
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a French Natural history, mathematician, cosmology and encyclopedic author. His collected information influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Cuvier....
 became the curator in 1739 and he expanded the gardens greatly, adding a maze
Maze

A maze is a complex tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage through which the solver must find a route. In everyday speech, both maze and labyrinth denote a complex and confusing series of pathways, but technically the maze is distinguished from the labyrinth....
, the Labyrinth, which remains today. In 1792 the Royal Menagerie was moved to the gardens from Versailles
Versailles

Versailles , formerly de facto capital of the kingdom of France, is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and is still an important administrative and judicial centre....
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Access

57, rue Cuvier, Paris, France Tel: +33 1 40 79 30 00

See also

  • List of botanical gardens in France
    List of botanical gardens in France

    This list of botanical gardens in France is intended to contain all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in France....


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