Jardin Du Luxembourg in Popular Culture
The gardens are featured prominently in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables. It is here that the principal love story of the novel unfolds, as the characters Marius Pontmercy and Cosette first meet. Henry James also uses the gardens, in The Ambassadors, as the place where his character Lambert Strether has an epiphany about his identity. The final scene of William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary is set in the gardens.
The gardens are also the subject for the cover of Tame Impala's 2012 album Lonerism.
It is also the title of a song by the band, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger.
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