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Jardin des Plantes
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Definition:an enormous botanical garden in Paris on the Siene river.
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photo: by Benh Lieu Song, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
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Her eyes, especially, had an expression of mingled sensuality and fierceness which I had never seen in any other human glance. "Gipsy's eye, wolf's eye!" is a Spanish saying which denotes close observation. If my readers have no time to go to the "Jardin des Plantes" to study the wolf's expression, they will do well to watch the ordinary cat when it is lying in wait for a sparrow.
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But suddenly it turned with a dash across Quatremares, Sotteville, La Grande-Chaussee, the Rue d'Elbeuf, and made its third halt in front of the Jardin des Plantes.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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