jardin de l'Abbé-Lemire

The Jardin de l'Abbé-Lemire features a dense, quiet grove of trees tucked behind the high walls of the fourteenth arrondissement. It honors Jules Lemire, a priest and politician who spent his career fighting for worker rights and garden allotments for the urban poor. During the early twentieth century, Lemire spent his own money to buy plots of land, turning them into communal vegetable gardens. This park preserves his focus on accessible green space within the crowded city streets of Paris.