Landscape Architect. He became famous for the parks and gardens that he designed and build during Emperor Napoleon III's renewal of Paris, France. Working under Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann , he and Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand carried out numerous schemes for laying out straight avenues, and designed many public gardens and parks, including those of the Bois de Boulogne in 1854; Bois de Vincennes in 1860; Monceau in 1862; Buttes-Chaumont from 1864 to 1869; and Montsouris in 1869. Of these, Buttes-Chaumont was the most elaborate, with a lake, streams, a waterfall, and artificial grottoes. He was given the title of "Chief Gardener of the Promenades and Plantations Department of the City of Paris". His work mimicked English gardens with rolling lawns and sinuous forms of alleys and lakes Born in a part of France with rich soil, he, like his father before him, started as a simple gardener. He learned gardening not only with a spade in hand, but studying during his evenings. At the age of sixteen, he was hired as a gardening instructor at the penal colony of Mettray. Five years later, he left and headed for Paris to study at the Museum of Natural History. In July 1847, he married Marie Pauline Aimee Deschamps, daughter of a Bordeaux horticulturist. At his point, he added the surname Deschamps to his name, but his name is not documented on his grave marker. Living in Bordeaux, he started a very successful business with his father-in-law growing exotic plants such as banana trees, arums, bamboo leave like hotcakes. Palm trees, cannas and begonias. By chance, the future Napoleon III came to hothouse in the spring of 1852 and was impressed with his plants. When Napoleon III issued the order to renew Paris, he wanted Barillet-Deschamps to be part of this great task. The first mission for Barillet-Deschamps was to resume the development of the Bois de Boulogne and Vincennes. He intervenes on the Champs-Elysées, the Monceau Park, creates the square of the Temple and that of Batignolles. After the annexation by Paris of the villages of Belleville and Menilmontant, he began in 1864, his great work, Buttes-Chaumont. With the architect Gabriel Davioudm for the pavilions and engineers Eugène Belgrandm for the hydraulics, and Jean Darcel for the cliff, the cave, and the waterfalls he created a masterpiece. He soon acquired a worldwide reputation for his beautiful gardens. The Emperor of Austria asked him for opinions for Prater Park and the King of the Belgians the castle of Laeken. In Cairo, the Khedive of Egypt even named him, in 1870, "director general of the Promenades". He lived in Egypt for three years. In the summer of 1873, engaged on a project in Constantinople, he contracted a pulmonary disease and died, alone. He authored his own book in 1869 with four editions, "Thoughts: History, Culture, Multiplication, and Employment". A profession journal article, "Gardens in Cairo Designed by Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps" was written by Alix Wilkinson for "This Garden History Society" in the summer of 2010. The Italian biographer Lusia Limido published her 2002 paperback, "The Art of Gardening in the Second Empire: Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps, 1824-1873". In Alphan's book "Walks in Paris", he mentioned Barillet-Deschamps only once in a footnote. Although a talented gardener, the pedigree of a "badly born" peasant's son, along with a short life, kept him from being more recognized in history.