Édouard François André (17 July 1840 – 25 October 1911) was a French

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, as well as a leading

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of the late 19th century, famous for designing city

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s and

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s in

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and

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Biography

Born into a family of nurserymen in

Bourges Bourges () is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre. It is the capital of the department of Cher, and also was the capital city of the former province of Berry. History The name of the commune derives either from the Bituriges, t ...

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, Édouard André assisted

Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps (7 June 1824 at Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher – 12 September 1873 at Vichy) was a French horticulturist and landscape architect. He was the chief gardener of Paris during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III, and wa ...

in 1860, at the age of twenty, and participated in the redesign of the city of

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in cooperation with

Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (; 26 October 1817 – 6 December 1891) was a French engineer of the Corps of Bridges and Roads. As a close associate of Baron Haussmann and later as Director of Public Works at Paris City Hall from 1871, he was inst ...

and

Georges-Eugène Haussmann Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann (; 27 March 180911 January 1891), was a French official who served as Prefect (France), prefect of Seine (department), Seine (1853–1870), chosen by Emperor Napoleon III to carry out ...

. Eventually he was appointed Head Gardener (''Jardinier Principal'') of Paris. During eight years of

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he designed and planted many public spaces, including the

Parc des Buttes Chaumont The Parc des Buttes Chaumont () is a public park situated in northeastern Paris, France, in the 19th arrondissement. Occupying , it is the fifth-largest park in Paris, after the Bois de Vincennes, Bois de Boulogne, Parc de la Villette and Tuile ...

and

Tuileries Gardens The Tuileries Garden (french: Jardin des Tuileries, ) is a public garden located between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Created by Catherine de' Medici as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in ...

. His international career was launched in 1866, when he won the competition to design

Sefton Park Sefton Park is a public park in south Liverpool, England. The park is in a district of the same name, located roughly within the historic bounds of the large area of Toxteth Park. Neighbouring districts include modern-day Toxteth, Aigburth, ...

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. During his life André designed around a hundred

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and private landscape parks, mainly in

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: the

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, the

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and

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(the Euxinograd palace park). Among the most famous of them in addition to Sefton Park, Liverpool, are the

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Park,

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Garden in

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, Weldham Castle Garden in

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, public park of

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and the

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, the major public park in

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. His experience in designing public parks was distilled in ''Traité général de la composition des parcs et jardins,'' (Masson, Paris) 1879. The private parks designed by André include four landscape parks in

established in

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nobles' residences:

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, Trakų Vokė (now in Paneriai elderate of

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), Užutrakis (near

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) and the most beautiful park in Lithuania, the Palanga Botanical Park. These parks have many distinctive features used by André in his parks: harmonious placement and pleasing arrangement of artificial

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es,

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, mountain-style stone structures, employment of natural

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and

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s. Édouard André succeeded

Charles Antoine Lemaire Charles Antoine Lemaire (1 November 1800, in Paris – 22 June 1871, in Paris), was a French botanist and botanical author, noted for his publications on Cactaceae. Education Born the son of Antoine Charles Lemaire and Marie Jeanne Davio, he ha ...

as editor of ''L'Illustration Horticole'' in 1870. He undertook a botanising trip in the foothills of the

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in 1875–76 that resulted in the introduction of numerous hardy and tender plants new to European cultivation; his researches resulted in a volume on

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s, ''Bromeliaceae Andreanae. Description et Histoire des Bromeliacées récoltées dans la Colombie, l'Ecuador et la Venezuela,'' Librairie Agricole, Paris, 1889.It was reprinted by Big Bridge Press, Berkeley CA, 1983. His pupil and assistant, Charles or Carlos Thays went to

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in 1889 and was responsible for the planning of tree-lined boulevards and public gardens, resulting in the French atmosphere often noted in that city. Édouard André died in

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, and was interred in

Montmartre Cemetery The Cemetery of Montmartre (french: link=no, Cimetière de Montmartre) is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France, that dates to the early 19th century. Officially known as the Cimetière du Nord, it is the third largest necropolis ...

Bibliography

*''Bromeliaceae Andreanae. Description et Histoire des Bromeliacées, récoltées dans la Colombie, l'Ecuador et la Venezuela''. Paris: Librairie Agricole, 1889. Nachdruck: Berkeley CA, USA: Big Bridge Press, 1983 *''L' art des jardins: traité général de la composition des parcs et jardins''. Paris: Masson, 1879. Nachdruck: Marseille: Lafitte Reprints, 1983,

References

External links

Palanga Botanical Park website

About Sefton Park

Weldham Castle website

Roseraie du Val-de-Marne Website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Andre, Edouard 1840 births 1911 deaths People from Bourges 19th-century French people French landscape and garden designers French horticulturists French garden writers Burials at Montmartre Cemetery French male non-fiction writers