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The Poivre Avenue is not one of the streets of the town or cities of Mauritius Island. Poivre Avenue is one of the avenues in the Pamplemousses Botanical Gradens, each avenues of the garden has a name, the names are mostly the different names of the ancient governors of the Island or explorers who visited the island, Pierre Poivre to whom was dedicated this avenue was a famous French botanist and explorer who lived in the house which was constructed by Mahe de Labourdonnais who himself lived in this magnificent place previously. As Pierre Poivre was a botanist he had seeds from different part of the world which he planted in the garden. Pierre Poivre was the administrator of Ile de France, the ancient name of Mauritius during the French colonisation. Pierre Poivre is the who made the Pamplemousses Gardens what it is now and which still flourishing, the garden is now a huge garden of twenty five hectare who a large number of palm trees and other trees. Along the Poivre Avenue are huge royal palm trees as if guiding the visitors to the garden.
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