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5.0 out of 5 stars
VERSAILLES,
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This review is from: Versailles: A Garden in Four Seasons (Hardcover)
This is a wonderfully realized book on a most deserving subject. The gardens of Le Notre, at Versailles, are the most spectaular in the world and the apex of French classical garden design, Louis XIV was heavily envoled in their creation, and the Sun King took most of the credit, but it was mostly the great Le Notre. This book has some spectacular images and the palace and grounds are just breathtaking, it really is hard to wrap your mind around this much splendor. If you have any interest at all amazing landscape architecture or just appreciate opulance then you will love this book. Thank goodness the palace was not pulled down during the Revolution, it was said because it was so vast it would be too much work to destroy so they let it languish in glorious decay, to this day France is trying to restore it to its apex during the ancient regime, this book lets us in on some of that opulance reflected in the splendid gardens. Highly recommended.
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Versailles: A Garden in Four Seasons by Jacques Dubois (Hardcover - November 1, 2005)
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