Garden
Jardin des Plantes
75005 Paris
France's oldest botanical garden, home to a Natural History museum, zoo, and ten thousand plant species.
Jardin des Plantes in Paris tells the story of Zarafa, a giraffe who walked through these gates on 9 July 1827 after a journey that began in Sudan and included a barge trip down the Nile and a nine-hundred-kilometre walk from Marseille. The guide follows the sensation she caused, as a hundred thousand Parisians came to see her, giraffe-print fabric sold out, and writers like Flaubert and Balzac came just to look. Listen for how one animal's arrival reshaped Parisian fashion and imagination.
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