No Evergreens...The trees in Paris are mostly the Horse-Chestnut. The french are meticulous with having pollarded trees throughout the city. One idea I have for Detroit as a possible tourist place would be a sculptured garden. Might as well turn a lot of empty land into the world's largest sculptured garden rivaling the Versailles or the Schloss Schönbrunn in Austria.
Here are the ways trees look in Paris:
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