Lac Daumesnil holds a dense cluster of islands, connected by rustic wooden bridges and shaded by towering, mature trees. Baron Haussmann ordered the lake excavated during the eighteen sixties as part of his massive transformation of Paris. Workers carved the basin out of the former Vincennes plateau to provide a leisure escape for city residents. Napoleon the Third insisted on the project to mimic the landscape parks he admired in London. Today, rowboats still drift across the water beneath the hanging willow branches.
Lac Daumesnil
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