Jean-Charles Alphand

Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand , born in 1817 and deceased in 1891, was an engineer of the Ponts and Chaussées. Under Napoleon III, Alphand took part in the restoration of Paris directed by the Baron Haussmann between 1852 and 1870, in company of the engineer Eugene Belgrand and the gardener Jean-Pierre Barrel-Deschamps.

Jean-Charles Alphand arranged in particular:

the Public garden of the Temple,
the avenue of the Observatory
gardens of the Fields-Élysées,
the Park Heap,
the boulevard Richard-Lenoir,
the Wood of Vincennes,
the Park Montsouris,
the Bois de Boulogne
the Park of Hillock-Chaumont.
the Public garden of Batignolles

After the reference of Haussmann, its successor Leon Say entrusts to Alphand the management works. He continues the work of Haussmann for this reason. He directs even the service of Water to died of Belgrand in 1878. He occupies himself in particular:

of the fortifications of Paris and the advanced forts,
of the Garden of Trocadéro, carried out for the World Fair of 1878,
of the preparation of the World Fair of 1889.

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