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Benefiting from exceptional credits voted in 1833, the Muséum national d’Hstoire naturelle de Paris had the opportunity to modernize the garden that houses it and was one with it: the Jardin des Plantes. The young architect Charles Rohault de Fleury (1801-1875), appointed a year earlier chief architect of the Museum, thus inherited the responsibility of designing new buildings and decorations that reflect the scientific ambition attached to this place: to preserve and exhibit all the natural productions of the globe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]