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Bois de Boulogne in Paris
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The Bois de Boulogne is one of the two green lungs of Paris, along with the Bois de Vincennes. It takes its name from the church of Notre-Dame-de-Boulogne-la-Petite (now located in Boulogne-Billancourt), built on the orders of Philip the Fair in 1330 following a pilgrimage to Boulogne-sur-Mer. Formerly the Rouvray forest and hunting ground of the French kings, the wood fell into disuse after the Revolution. In 1852, Napoleon III commissioned the engineer Adolphe Alphand (Parc Monceau) and the landscape architect Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps (Buttes-Chaumont) to restore it. With its 3.27 sq. miles (846 ha), it is larger than Hyde Park in London.
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