From Marie-Antoinette's Garden An Eighteenth-Century Horticultural Album |
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| Author:
| De Feudeau, Elisabeth |
| Editor:
| Baraton, Alain |
| Foreword by:
| Pegard, Catherine |
| ISBN: | 978-2-08-020312-0 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2017 |
| Publisher: | Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Flammarion |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $17.98 |
Book Description:
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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:...
More 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, and anemones in the French Gardens, via winding paths in the Anglo-Chinese Gardens, through the conifers of the Belvedere Gardens--where fabulous nocturnal parties were hosted--past the entrancing aromas of the shrubs surrounding the Temple of Love, to the wildflowers of the Garden of Solitude.