00:14This 400th anniversary of the creation of the Jardin du Roi
00:17reminds the Epopée of the Jardin des Plantes.
00:20It is now becoming a scientific centre of research.
00:24We are in Paris, in the 5th arrondissement,
00:27in a very fresh, very vegetal,
00:31which is the Jardin des Plantes
00:33of the National Museum of History Naturel.
00:36At the beginning, it was 400 years ago,
00:39we had a France, Louis XIII, who had a dream.
00:43It was a pedagogical garden
00:45in which the young pharmacists and the young doctors
00:48could learn to recognize the plants they care.
00:53And then, this garden will enrich the plants
00:57coming from the whole world.
00:58In the 18th century,
01:00under the impulsion of Buffon,
01:01it will double the surface
01:03until it becomes the core living
01:06of a research center and excellence
01:09worldwide known.
01:11Today, we have a 20 hectares
01:14with a Jardin des Iris,
01:16a large perspective,
01:17a ecological garden,
01:18a alpine garden,
01:20but also,
01:21there are large serfs
01:22with a tropical forest
01:23with a tropical forest,
01:25a large evolution
01:26and a mineralogy gallery,
01:29and researchers
01:30who work to improve the knowledge of the living.
01:33But this Jardin is also in service
01:36of the public
01:37with missions of diffusion
01:39and the mission of the museum,
01:41which is located here,
01:43is to be amazing
01:43to instruct and act.
01:46Thank you very much.
