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From Marie-Antoinette's Garden

An Eighteenth-Century Horticultural Album

From Marie-Antoinette's Garden( )
Author: De Feudeau, Elisabeth
Editor: Baraton, Alain
Foreword by: Pegard, Catherine
ISBN:978-2-08-020142-3
Publication Date:Sep 2013
Publisher:Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Imprint:Flammarion
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $49.95
Book Description:

A horticultural tour of Marie-Antoinette's domain, the lavishly constructed gardens at Versailles, accompanied by eighteenth-century archival illustrations. Plants, flowers, and trees were Marie-Antoinette's passion; she transformed the Petit Trianon's gardens into an enchanted escape from the oppressive shackles of Versailles. Based on archival documents, this book meanders through Marie-Antoinette's estate as the queen herself would have walked it: traversing hyacinths, buttercups,...
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Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: Gardening / Regional / General
History / Europe / France
Travel / Europe / France
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):9.78 x 12.5 x 1.05 Inches
Book Weight:4.004 Pounds



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