cirque d'eté (1841), a large hall for popular theater, musical and circus performances. He also placed several ornamental fountains around the park, of which three are still in place. In 1855 Emperor Napoleon III chose the park as the site of the first great international exposition to be held in Paris, the Exposition Universelle. The park was the location of the Palace of Industry, a giant exhibit hall which covered thirty thousand square meters, where the Grand Palais is today. In 1858, following the Exposition, the Emperor's prefect of Paris, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, had the gardens transformed from a formal French garden into a picturesque English style garden, with groves of trees, flowerbeds and winding paths. The rows of elm trees, which were in poor health, were replaced by rows of chestnut trees. The garden was one of the first parks in Paris to have monumental and sanitary public toilets. They were designed especially for the park by city architect Gabriel Davioud, and were called Chalets de Toilette et de Necessités publiques, or "chalets of toilets and public necessities" One was photographed by pioneer urban photographer Charles Marville in 1865. The park served again as an exposition site during the Universal Exposition of 1900; it became the home of the Grand Palais and Petit Palais. It also became the home of a new panorama theater, designed by Gabriel Davioud, the chief architect of Napoleon III, in 1858, to display large 360-degree historical paintings. That building became the Palais de Glace, or ice palace, in 1893, and then, after World War II, became a dramatic theater, the Théatre du Rond-Point, which specialized in new French plays. The Théatre Marigny was built by Charles Garnier, architect of the Paris Opera, in 1883, was also originally designed to display panorama paintings. It was turned into a musical theater in 1894. The park played a memorable role in French literature; in the novels of Marcel Proust, it was the place where the young narrator met with his first love, Gilberte. Description The modern park is divided by one of the busiest boulevards in Paris, the Champs-Élysée, but it still manages to provide quiet corners for calm, reflection and appreciation of nature. The most remote and quiet corner of the park lies in the southwest, along Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt and between the Grand Palais and the Cours-la-Reine. This section of the park is called the