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The Gardener of Versailles
Author | : Alain Baraton |
Publsiher | : Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2014-02-11 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9780847842704 |
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INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 Finalist For gardening aficionados and Francophiles, a love letter to the Versailles Palace and grounds, from the man who knows them best. In Alain Baraton's Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its grounds, and since 1982 he has devoted his life to the gardens, orchards, and fields that were loved by France's kings and queens as much as the palace itself. His memoir captures the essence of the connection between gardeners and the earth they tend, no matter how humble or grand. With the charm of a natural storyteller, Baraton weaves his own path as a gardener with the life of the Versailles grounds, and his role overseeing its team of eighty gardeners tending to 350,000 trees and thirty miles of walkways on 2,100 acres. He richly evokes this legendary place and the history it has witnessed but also its quieter side that he feels privileged to know. The same gardens that hosted the lavish lawn parties of Louis XIV and the momentous meeting between Marie Antoinette and the Cardinal de Rohan remain enchanted, private places where visitors try to get themselves locked in at night, lovers go looking for secluded hideaways, and elegant grandmothers secretly make cuttings to take back to their own gardens. A tremendous best seller in France, The Gardener of Versailles gives an unprecedentedly intimate view of one of the grandest places on earth. From the Hardcover edition.
The Sun King s Garden
Author | : Ian H. Thompson |
Publsiher | : PHP研究所 |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Gardens |
ISBN | : 0747576483 |
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Presents the story of the creation of one of the most dazzling and extensive gardens - the gardens of Versailles. This book also features the friendship between Louis XIV, the creator of the garden, and Andre Le Notre, the gardener.
Marie Antoinette and the Last Garden of Versailles
Author | : Christian Duvernois |
Publsiher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : UOM:39015077123449 |
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Marie-Antoinette has been idolized as the height of eighteenth-century French style and vilified as the spark that ignited the French Revolution. This book departs from such traditional interpretations of the infamous queen’s reign and chooses to reflect on the humanistic aspects of her private realm. To escape the formalities and royal obligations of Louis XVI’s court, Marie-Antoinette created a private realm of pleasure for herself at the Petit Trianon and Hameau, where she planted the first Anglo-Chinese garden; created a trysting grotto; a working farm; and revolutionized architecture and gardening trends for the century to come. Marie-Antoinette’s entire private domain and its story are told in beautiful photographic detail by François Halard for the first time since its recent restoration and accompanied by well-researched texts by garden expert Christian Duvernois.
The Sun King s Garden
Author | : Ian Thompson |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2006-10-31 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9781582346311 |
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Presents an illustrated account of the creation of one of the world's most dazzling and extensive gardens, the gardens at the palace of Versailles, noting the unique four-decade friendship between Louis XIV, the creator of the garden, and Andre Le Ntre, the gardener.
Gardener to the King
Author | : Frédéric Richaud |
Publsiher | : Arcade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1559705833 |
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"As gardener to His Majesty, Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie is master of his own domain, the royal fruit and vegetable garden. Louis' generals might proclaim the power of France abroad, but La Quintine's espaliers and vegetable plots assert nothing less than man's mastery over nature; a garden that can feed a thousand at a sitting, standards of pruning that in three hundred years have never been surpassed."--Jacket.
Andr Le N tre
Author | : Erik Orsenna |
Publsiher | : New York : G. Braziller |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Gardens |
ISBN | : UOM:39015053784164 |
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The gardensat Versailles, the most extravagant and influential gardens in European history, emerged from the long association of Louis XIV and his master gardener, Andr Le Ntre. Born in Paris, the son and grandson of gardeners, Le Ntre grew up in the
Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles
Author | : Chandra Mukerji |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1997-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521599598 |
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In seventeenth-century France, land took on new importance for the practice of politics and rituals of court life. In her major new book, Chandra Mukerji highlights the connections between the two seemingly disparate activities of engineering and garden design. She shows how, at Versailles in particular, the royal park showcased French skills in using nature and art to design a distinctively French landscape and create a naturalized political territoriality. She challenges the association of state power with social and legal structures alone and demonstrates the importance for Louis XIV and his state of a controlled physical site, a demarcated French territory within the wider European geo-political continent.
Versailles
Author | : Jean d'Ormesson,Pierre Arizzoli-Clementel |
Publsiher | : Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005-11-01 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 0810959917 |
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A photographic tour of the gardens of Versailles throughout the four seasons that emphasizes sculptures found on the grounds.