Paris Parks

With the daffodils at peak here in Sewanee, my mind keeps thinking of the outdoors in Paris in Spring. What parks to visit?

I love Jardin des Tuileries. You can find a chair, take off your shoes, and pull out a book, one with paper pages. (I’ll be taking Chris Bachelder’s Bear V. Shark and Thomas Lakeman’s Chillwater Cove.) I hope the kids can occupy themselves with a rereading of the Percy Jackson series. The great thing about Tuileries is that you can even study a map without feeling too foolish – it doesn’t matter, so many tourists are pouring out of the Louvre. Of course the more I study a map, the more lost I become.

I found a lovely park mentioned at saffronandblueberry.blogspot: the Albert Kahn Garden. Kahn was a banker/philanthropist in the early 1900s. After the invention of color photography, he sent photographers around the world from Paris to document cultures and monuments, and the Kahn Collection of color glass plate autochromes numbers over 75,000 plates.

What parks would you visit? And you Parisians, what parks do you intend to visit more often but never have the time?