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Wednesday, September 8, 2010 • Paris, France

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It isn't a day I would have chosen to wander around the Jardin des Plantes, with gray skies and rain drizzling down, but it was this very morning that the Director of the Jardin des Plantes, Eric Joly, and the principal players in the renovation of the glasshouses of the Jardin des Plantes, chose to give a tour to the press of this newly renovated part of the Museum of Natural History.

It was an intimate group huddled together under the thick foliage of the exotic plants that stand many meters tall under the glass and iron structure. We listened intently to Denis Larpin, the scientist responsible for the tropical collections and Dario de Franceschi, research specialist of the paleobotanist department of the Natural History Museum as we wandered around the representative rainforest.

It took several years to restore and renovate the glass houses to be re-opened to the public, having begun in June of 2005. Before the works began, the public had access only to two. Now, there are the four to visit: tropical rainforest, desert and arid land, New Caledonia and plant history. The first glasshouse was built in 1714. Two were built by Rohault de Fleury in the 19th-century and were named after him in his honor. The biggest and highest was built in the 1930s by René Berger. It was called The Winter Garden and is known today as the Tropical Rainforest Glasshouse.

The glasshouses are quite sensitive to temperature and humidity and require regular maintenance. In the process of renovation, all the plants had to be removed, with the exception of the largest of the plants which were forced to withstand the harsh elements of the reconstruction. Six gardeners tend them. The plants come from every part of the globe that has an equatorial and humid tropical climate and the collection of plants from the New Caledonia rainforest is the largest in the world. (Three-thousand-seven-hundred species exist there.) Every type of plant is represented in the glasshouses and some of the largest ones, such as the Bermuda Palm, banana trees and large ficus, are as old as 30 years.

The Jardin des Plantes sadly may not be as well known by visitors as its neighbor the Jardin du Luxembourg, but it boasts of four galleries of the Natural History Museum: the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, the Mineralogy Museum, the Paleontology Museum and the Entomology Museum. There is also a small zoo, founded in 1795 by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre from animals of the royal menagerie at Versailles. The garden, founded in 1626, was planted in 1635 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, as a medicinal herb garden. It was opened to the public in 1640 and was originally known as the "Jardin du Roi" -- the "King's Garden."

Today, it may no longer be the King's garden, but it's clearly on the road to becoming one of Paris' most illustrious treasures to be enjoyed by all ages.

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Jardin des Plantes
57, rue Cuvier, Paris 5th
http://www.mnhn.fr
+33 (0) 1.40.79.54.79
Open daily except Tuesdays and May 1st6 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. winter, 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. summer
5€ / 3€ entry
Guided tours by reservation: +33 (0) 1.40.79.36.00

P.S. Don't forget to mark your calendar for Tuesday, September 14th when "Parler Paris Après Midi" meets up again after the summer hiatus. This is the monthly coffee gathering designed for you readers to get to know one another. It's free and it's unstructured -- don't worry -- there's no pressure to speak any French! Just show up anytime between 3 and 5 p.m. to say hello and stay as long as you like. Again, it's a great way to meet people, particularly Anglophones living in the City of Light, or of course, visitors who love the city as much as we all do. Visit /parlerparis/apresmidi.html for more information.

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