Le Notre

At Versailles, Le Notre utilizes his standard plan of a central axis with the palace as the focal point to transform the harsh landscape of the original hunting lodge.

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At Versailles, Le Notre utilizes his standard plan of a central axis with the palace as the focal point to transform the harsh landscape of the original hunting lodge.

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The designers of the famed Versailles, Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Le Notre, also designed Chateau de Villette, so this chateau is nicknamed "Le Petite Versailles."

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In fact, since Le Notre and Hardouin-Mansart designed both properties around the same time, Villette was dubbed, "Le Petit Versailles" or little Versailles.

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Its overloaded details of Italian architecture were brightened up a bit by the surroundings planned and executed by the landscapist Le Notre and the life of the court in its suburban retreat took on a real and genuine brilliance which under the restraint of the gloomy walls of the Louvre and Paris streets could hardly have been.

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This terrace, too, was the project and construction of Le Notre in 1672.

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Other artists have had the handling of this great domain since the days of Le Notre.

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By the end of the sixteenth century the Garden of the Tuileries, which was later to be entirely transformed by Le Notre, offered an interesting aspect of the _parquet_ at its best.

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Therese and Jacques saw before them the flower-beds designed by Le Notre, the green carpet, the fountain; then the grotto with its five rustic arcades crowned by the tall trees on which autumn had already begun to spread its golden mantle.

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This style of gardening was introduced into France by Le Notre, and some centuries must yet pass away before the French gardeners will acquire a more correct taste.

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