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French formal garden information


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. Its epitome is generally considered to be the Gardens of Versailles designed during the 17th century by the landscape architect André Le Nôtre for Louis XIV and widely copied by other European courts.[1]

  1. ^ Éric Mension-Rigau, "Les jardins témoins de leur temps" in Historia, n° 7/8 (2000).

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