A garden of Metz with an area of 9,200 m2
This garden consists of two malls of linden trees and chestnut trees that surround the flowered central part and a circular pool with a jet of water. Several statues were made by artists of the School of Metz: that of Marshal Ney, the nymph of "The Source" of Charles Pêtre, the bronze horse of Christophe Fratin, a bust of Paul Verlaine and that of the Hairy liberator, placed in the former kiosk2 prior to 1861 (it already existed at the World Expo Metz), disappeared as a result of the development of the Esplanade parking lot in the 1960s (it most likely inspired that of the Parc du Cours at Épinal realized in 18633).
