Jardin de l'hotel de Lamoignon

The Jardin de l'Hotel de Lamoignon sits behind a high, weathered stone wall, accessible through a small gate on Rue des Francs-Bourgeois. This garden serves as the quiet courtyard for a seventeenth-century private mansion built for Diane de France, the legitimized daughter of King Henri the Second. While the mansion now houses the city's historical library, its garden remains a rare, shaded pocket of silence where Diane once kept her own menagerie, including a collection of hunting dogs and exotic birds.