Jardin des Plantes, Paris, France

Detail of the relief behind the statue of Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck, known as Lamarck, depicting an elderly Lamarck sitting beside his standing daughter, one hand on his shoulder, trees and tropical foliage carved in the background of the scene, created by Leon Fagel in 1908 and located at the entrance of Carr»s de la perpective (the plots of Perspective), Valhubert Place, in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Detail of the relief behind the statue of Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck, known as Lamarck, depicting an elderly Lamarck sitting beside his standing daughter, one hand on his shoulder, trees and tropical foliage carved in the background of the scene, created by Leon Fagel in 1908 and located at the entrance of Carr»s de la perpective (the plots of Perspective), Valhubert Place, in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen