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Royal palaces and parks of France (1910)

Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 348

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orest which had sur-rounded the manor of Louis XIII, and extendedthe garden to the furthermost limits of his in-genuity. Modifications were rapid, and from1664 the parterres and the greensward took onentirely new forms and effects. The Parterredes Reservoirs became the Parterre du Nord,and an alley… … •^ ^ •s •^ ^ ■^ The Gardens of Versailles 265 on the homogeneity which it had hitherto lacked.The great Rondeau, as it was called, and whichbecame later the Bassin du Dragon, was exca-vated, and the Jardin Bas, or the Nouveau Par-terre, with an oval depression, was also planned. At one end of the…

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