André Le Nôtre: Gardener to the Sun King by Erik Orsenna 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. CL, ISBN: 0807614874 $22.00 (Can: $33.00)