High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Jardin Turc ("Turkish Garden") in the boulevard du Temple, Paris, was a celebrated cafe and music garden that was a popular rendezvous in the city's Marais district from the time of the First French Empire throughout the nineteenth century. From four in the afternoon until eleven at night, one might enjoy its exotic decor with kiosks of coloured glass, hanging lanterns and a Chinese bridge, expressing a recurrent whimsical fad of turqueries, a sub-set of chinoiserie. Octave Uzanne recalled with only a trace of condescension its bourgeois clientele drawn from the world of business, its family groups and pomaded dandies promenading in its formal allees and enjoying foaming beer in the cabinets de verdure that were surrounded by well-clipped greenery, which one might reserve for a private party.Street entertainers were another draw for the Parisian middle classes: "Vaudeville and harlequinades are offered all over the garden," a...

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