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Animals in their garden : the architect Jacques Molinos and the Menagerie of the Museum of Natural History in Paris (1795-1827). The plan to set up a menagerie in the Museum of Natural History was on foot during the French Revolution, but carried out by the architect Jacques Molinos from 1795 to 1827. The idea was to create a new kind of establishment, the zoological garden for which Lacépède gave a detailed program. The history of the successive plans reveals to what point resorting to the landscape model was dependent on the revolutionary context, as well as on the sensualist theories of the Enlightment. The Western part of the Jardin des plantes was to be arranged as a tree garden with picturesque fabriques scattered here and there to house the animals. The different programs given to the architect in the following years show how, along with the evolution of scientific ideas and of physiology, the landscape model gave place to the gallery system. The setting of the Menagerie concerned as a public establishment, devoted to exhibitions and scientific research, appeared as a model for all the zoological gardens built in the first half of the 19th century.

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