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The Belvédère du Petit Trianon, or Pavillon du Rocher, is a neoclassical garden built by Richard Mique between 1778 and 1781 for the French queen Marie-Antoinette within the Jardin anglais du Petit Trianon on the grounds of the Château de Versailles.
With the restoration of the Bourbons in 1814, the gardens of Versailles witnessed the first modifications since the Revolution. In 1817, Louis XVIII ordered the conversion of the Île du Roi and the Miroir d'Eau into an English-style garden – the Jardin du Roi.. [16]
The garden surroundings of the Petit Trianon, of which the hameau de la Reine is an extension, began their transformation from formal pattern gardens. Under Louis XV it had been an arboretum and the new arrangements eliminated this famous botanical garden, replacing it with a more informal "natural" garden of winding paths, curving canals and ...
Jacques-Louis Le Normand, the last member of the family to direct the Potager du roi, died in 1782, and the garden came under the direction of Alexandre Brown, of English origin, who was the gardener at the royal garden at Choisy. Brown renovated the garden, reducing the size of the pond in the center, and tearing down the walls between eleven ...
Castle Howard (1699–1712), a predecessor of the English garden modelled on the gardens of Versailles. The predecessors of the landscape garden in England were the great parks created by Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) and Nicholas Hawksmoor at Castle Howard (1699–1712), Blenheim Palace (1705–1722), and the Claremont Landscape Garden at Claremont House (1715–1727).
The William English House is a historic farmhouse in the far western portion of the U.S. state of Ohio.Located along State Route 47 northeast of the village of Versailles in the northeastern corner of Darke County, [1] the house was built in 1881 as the residence of William English, an astronomically-inclined farmer.
Versailles (/ v ər ˈ s eɪ l z / vər-SAYLZ [3]) is a village in Darke County, Ohio, United States. It is the only village in Wayne Township . The population was 2,692 at the 2020 census .
The Versailles Orangerie (French: L'orangerie du château de Versailles) was built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart between 1684 and 1686, before work on the Château de Versailles had even begun. The Orangerie, which replaced Louis Le Vau 's earlier design from 1663, is an example of many such prestigious extensions of grand gardens in Europe ...