Jardin Turc

L'entree du Jardin Turc, by Louis-Léopold Boilly, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum

The Jardin Turc ("Turkish Garden") in the boulevard du Temple, Paris, was a café and music garden that was a popular rendezvous in the city's Marais district from the time of the First French Empire throughout the 19th century. Its decor consisted of kiosks of coloured glass, hanging lanterns and a Chinese bridge,[1] expressing the fad of turqueries, a sub-set of chinoiserie.[2]

  1. ^ Carlson 1974, p. 28.
  2. ^ Locke 1998, p. 29f.