The "Parisian Garden" project is part of the modern wing of the legendary Sainte-Geneviève library renovation - a 19th century historic monument designed by Henri Labrouste, located in the Latin Quarter in Paris. It was born out of the project architects' will to clad the main walls of the new researchers' room, deprived of outside views. The goal was to create a cocoon to study while limiting the closure effect and giving light to the room.

The reference to the vegetal paintings adorning the entrance hall walls, made by the painter Alexandre Desgoffe, inspired a panoramic decor of 12 trompe l'oeil bays opening on an outdoor landscape. The graphic and contemporary language is assumed in contrast with the place historical ornaments. The fictitious panorama, which offers a view overlooking Paris from the heights of the Sainte-Geneviève mountain, is built on three successive plans:

- the background drawing the skyline of the city ;

- an intermediate plan punctuated by remarkable monuments and buildings located around the Library (such as Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, the Sorbonne Observatory or the Notre-Dame-du-Mont church);

- a foreground creating a plant filter composed of local tree species (such as poplars, plane trees or ash trees) and inhabited by birds (local avifauna : bullfinches, tree sparrows, little owls, melodious linnets and others).