The Japanese Garden of Maulévrier in France

Abstract

Very few Japanese gardens have been known to exist in France. The garden of Maulevrier is Japanese in style and has one of the longest history as a Japanese garden in European countries. It was constructed in the early 20th century by a French architect, Alexandre Marcel. He was known as a designer of Cinéma La Pagode (Japanese style architecture, 1897), in Paris, which had an admirable Japanese garden. And also he designed a Japanese style five storey pagoda at the Paris International Exposition in 1900, which made even Japanese people surprised. By reason of its comparatively large strolling garden style and its historical meanings, we concluded that the Japanese garden of Maulevrier is to be recorded in garden history.