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# Bonsoir
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/bonsuar/
- Published: 2025-05-16T18:09:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:30:07.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Moscow, Observations, Paris, Pop Culture, Nature

Bonsoir. Thanks to this photograph of Audrey Hepburn we know that in the Paris of the 1960s, too, there was the ruinous practice of crown-topping trees, which is now applied everywhere in Moscow and within a couple of years destroys healthy, sturdy trees. But note that there, at least, the trunks were not sawn down to nothing, and the skeletal branches were left in place