André Le Nôtre: Gardener to the Sun King
by Erik Orsenna
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Clothbound
ISBN: 978-0-8076-1487-
$22.00 (Can: $33.00)
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André le Nôtre, chief landscape gardener at Versailles, enjoyed a thirty-five-year relationship with his patron, Louis XIV, the Sun King. This book recounts the life and achievements of Le Nôtre, who was considered to be a genius thanks to his innovative use of perspective and reflective water surfaces, in a distillation of facts and musings. Focusing on Versailles, the book explores the unlikely relationship between "the most powerful of monarchs, to those who will bend to anything" and a master gardener who never for a moment claimed to be anything else.
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