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Sign: Paris - Tuileries Gardens - direction sign - the central passage and the octagonal basin


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All. Centrale, 75001 Paris, France
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On the sign:
Grand Couvert

Allée centrale / Information / Cafés - restaurants / Grand Carré / Bassin rond / sortie Carrousela / Musée du Louvre

Bassin octogonal / Fer à cheval / Jeu de Paume / Musée de l’Orangerie / Cafés - restaurants / Information / Toilettes / (M) sortie Concorde

[Map]

[The other side]
Allée centrale et Bassin octogonal

La large allée centrale forme l’axe du jardin. Elle débouche à l’ouest vers le Bassin octogonal qu’encadre l’architecture théâtrale conçue par Le Nôtre.
Ces rampes en fer à cheval, reliées aux terrasses, ouvrent sur la longue perspective de l’axe parisien. Le décor statuaire qui encadrea le Bassin a été mis en place sous la minorité de Louis XV, vers 1716-1720.
On y remarque des marbres réalisés d’après l’antique sous Louis XIV à l’Académie de France à Rome. De part et d’autre de l’entrée, les groupes équestres de Mercure et de la Renommée sur Pégase ont été commandés à Antoine Coysevox (1700-1702) pour le parc de Marly (originaux au Louvre).
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The sign is one of those placed in the Tuileries Gardens, which provide directions to places in the garden. On the other side of the sign is usually information about the areas to which the sign points.

The places the sign refers to were photographed on the same day
The central passage Click for a larger image
The octagonal basin Click for a larger image

The other side of the sign Click for a larger image

The map that appears at the bottom of the sign Click for a larger image

Translation of the text on the sign:
Grand Couvert

Central aisle / Information / Cafés - restaurants / Grand Carré / Round pool / Carrousela exit / Louvre Museum

Octagonal pool / Horseshoe / Jeu de Paume / Musée de l’Orangerie / Cafés - restaurants / Information / Toilets / (M) Concorde exit

[Map]

[The other side]
Central aisle and octagonal basin

The wide central path forms the axis of the garden. It opens to the west towards the octagonal basin which is framed by the theatrical architecture designed by Le Nôtre.
These horseshoe ramps, connected to the terraces, open onto the long perspective of the Parisian axis. The statuary decoration which framed the Basin was put in place during the minority of Louis XV, around 1716-1720.
There we notice marbles made according to the antique under Louis XIV at the French Academy in Rome. On either side of the entrance, the equestrian groups of Mercury and Renommée on Pegasus were commissioned from Antoine Coysevox (1700-1702) for the Marly park (originals in the Louvre).



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