Grille du parc de Monceau

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Grande portes du parc de Monceau, M. Davioud architecte. Paris VIIIe. Circa 1864.Sprava in the frame - Orthodox church of Alexander Nevsky, the construction is finished in 1861 g.Tsentralnaya alley of the park, on which the photographer, named in honor of the Countess de Segur, nee bore the Russian name Sophia Fedorovna Rostopchina - the daughter of the governor of Moscow (remember 1812 !). Raised in suburban estate Raven, who married the Comte de Segur, in Paris, she has earned a reputation as a famous French writer, and a writer of children's - its name is well known and now everything is walking in the park Monceau babysitting and mothers with prams. It is noteworthy that a monument to her in the park Monceau is not (and here in the Luxembourg Gardens is a monument: it was opened in 1910, in the 36-th anniversary of the death of the Countess).For grid went off boulevard Monceau, later renamed Avenue of Queen Hortense (today Osh Avenue).