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The marvel of the gardens of Versailles – then as now – is the fountains. Yet, the very element that animates the gardens, water, has proven to be the affliction of the gardens since the time of Louis XIV. The gardens of Louis XIII required water and local ponds provided an adequate supply. However, once Louis XIV began expanding the ...
The Potager du roi (Kitchen Garden of the King), near the Palace of Versailles, produced fresh vegetables and fruits for the table of the court of Louis XIV. It was created between 1678 and 1683 by Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie , the director of the royal fruit and vegetable gardens.
The gardens remained largely unchanged from the time of Louis XIV; the completion of the Bassin de Neptune between 1738 and 1741 was the most important legacy Louis XV made to the gardens. [ 45 ] Towards the end of his reign, Louis XV, under the advice of Ange-Jacques Gabriel , began to remodel the courtyard façades of the palace.
Louis XIV had hunted at Versailles in the 1650s, [15] [18] but did not take any special interest in Versailles until 1661. [27] On 17 August 1661, [28] Louis XIV was a guest at a sumptuous festival hosted by Nicolas Fouquet, the Superintendent of Finances, at his palatial residence, the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte.
André Le Nôtre was born in Paris,a family of gardeners.Pierre Le Nôtre, who was in charge of the Tuileries Garden in 1572, may have been his grandfather. [3] André's father Jean Le Nôtre was also responsible for sections of the Tuileries gardens, initially under Claude Mollet, and later as head gardener, during the reign of Louis XIII.
Gardens of Versailles The Bassin d'Apollon in the Gardens of Versailles Parterre of the Versailles Orangerie Gardens of the Grand Trianon at the Palace of Versailles. The French formal garden, also called the jardin à la française (French for 'garden in the French manner'), is a style of "landscape" garden based on symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature.
The mansion was modeled after King Louis XIV's Grand Trianon. During the Gilded Age , Rosecliff in Newport, Rhode Island, was the summer home of Theresa "Tessie" Fair Oelrichs, a silver heiress.
From May 1682, when Louis XIV moved the court and government permanently to Versailles, until his death in September 1715, Versailles was the unofficial capital of the kingdom of France. For the next seven years, during the Régence of Philippe d' Orléans , the royal court of the young King Louis XV was the first in Paris, while the Regent ...