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A private park and garden of 75 hectares, surrounding the château. The French garden was begun in the 17th century, an English park added in the 18th century, and the French garden was redesigned in 1895 by the owner, Henri de Breteuil, and the landscape architect Achille Duchêne. Major features, including a labyrinth, were added since 1990 ...
Gardens of Versailles The Bassin d'Apollon in the Gardens of Versailles Parterre of the Versailles Orangerie Gardens of the Grand Trianon at the Palace of Versailles. The French formal garden, also called the jardin à la française (French for 'garden in the French manner'), is a style of "landscape" garden based on symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature.
The Château de Courances (pronounced [ʃɑto də kuʁɑ̃s]) at Courances, Essonne is a French château built in approximately 1630. The house and gardens are open to the public. The house and gardens are open to the public.
Journal of Garden History vol. 8, no. 1 (January–March 1988): 1–30. Friedman, Ann. "Charles Le Brun as Landscape Architect: His Designs for the First Parterre d'eau at Versailles." Eighteenth Century Life vol. 17, n.s., 2 (May 1993): 24–35. Girard, Jacques. Versailles gardens: sculpture and mythology. Preface by Pierre Lemoine.
The Tuileries Garden (French: Jardin des Tuileries, IPA: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ de tɥilʁi]) is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Created by Catherine de' Medici as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was opened to the public in 1667 and became a public park after the ...
The façade facing west, the French Garden, is the richest: it is adorned with a forecourt of four isolated columns [62] in the Corinthian style surmounted by capitals. [63] [note 7] On the south courtyard side, the ground floor is embossed horizontally, [note 8] while the main floor and attic are punctuated with Corinthian pilasters. [64]
La Louve is a private French contemporary garden, open to the public, in the town of Bonnieux in the Vaucluse department of France. It was created beginning in 1986 by Nicole de Vésian, textile designer for the Paris fashion house of Hermès. It is classified by the French Ministry of Culture as one of the Remarkable Gardens of France.
North wing of Louvre facing main courtyard. The Louvre Palace (French: Palais du Louvre, [palɛ dy luvʁ]), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, occupying a vast expanse of land between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois.