The next few posts will be celebrating the release of the fourth Brandon Scandal 'The Wandering Widow' with a few gratuitious pictures to illustrate the notes from the back of the book.
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| this is the pergola on a hill that Leo speculated might have been a mound of rubbish that couldn't be got rid of it, so they made a garden feature of it |
The Botanical
Gardens in the 5th Arrondissment were set up under the direction of
Louis XIII for the study of medicinal plants by doctors. The gardens are large and cover many types of
plants. The director of the gardens in
1815, Jean-Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck is the founder of the theory
of inheritance of acquired traits on which Charles Darwin built his theory of
evolution; indeed, Lamark can be said to be the father of the theory of
evolution. He survived the revolution by
changing the name of the gardens from Jardin du Roi to Jardin Des Plantes. A previous administrator and naturalist,
George-Louis Declerc, Comte de Buffon, is commemorated by the pergola on the
hill of the labyrinth which the characters visited.
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| Plan of the gardens. Our heroes were staying on the Rue Geoffroy St-Hilaire |
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| A French fashion plate. The pergola here isn't raised on an eminence, but I wonder if the artist was inspired by the Jardin Botanique? |
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| and here we find Leo and Letty in a Paris which still has narrow streets with medieval buildings, before the redesign of the city in 1848 after the year of revolutions |
