So I'm here on the outskirts of Paris, standing in a garden, but it's not just any old

garden.

This garden is beautiful.

This garden has plant life from all over the world, right here in Paris.

And it's the story of how this diverse plant life got here that's a little complicated

and it reveals a very dark secret.

I decided while I was here in Paris, I might as well visit this garden and see its secrets

for myself.

My name is Baudelaire and this is Atlas Obscure.

A celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today I'm at Le Jardin de Granamey Tropicop, a garden of tropical agrarna.

I'm going to take a walk through the garden itself and a walk through the complicated

history.

More, after this.

And this place is beautiful when you walk into it, because you just hear birds chirping

and it's beautiful trees and there's people here, like a handful of people.

You know, kind of just walking around and I wonder how many of these people know about

the history of this place.

So the garden exists within a larger park called the Boit of Insan.

The park is right next to the Chateau de Vincent, which was home to Napoleon III and some

of the kings of France.

In the late 1890s, the College of Agronomy was granted this little corner of the park.

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