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A 23-hectare public garden in Paris's 6th arrondissement, laid out from 1612 for Marie de' Medici around the Luxembourg Palace, now the seat of the French Senate. Lawns, tree-lined walks, an octagonal pond with model sailboats and the 1620 Medici Fountain fill the grounds.

A public garden between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde in Paris's 1st arrondissement, laid out by Catherine de' Medici in 1564 as the grounds of the Tuileries Palace and opened to the public in 1667. Statues, fountains and two octagonal ponds line its formal, tree-bordered paths.