The Yuan Ming Yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness, also known as yuanmingyuan remains park) now sits isolated from the main Summer Palace, but was a grand collection of palaces by the Qing Qianlong emperor in the mid-18th century. He commissioned Jesuits at his court to design and construct a set of European-style buildings in one corner, which they likened to Versailles. Unfortunately, Yungmingyuan was destroyed by British and French troops during the Second Opium War in 1860 and again by eight allied foreign forces in 1900.