A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . the policy of Louis XIV to encourage hiscourtiers to build and lay out gardens, because by so doing theyimpoverished themselves, and became more completely dependent onthe King. The sums expended on gardens by such men as Fouquet,Bordier, Pomponne, Conde, Colbert, or Louvois, must have beenenormous. Country life, in the real sense of the term, was out of These are shown and described in Perelles small views of Chantilly: DiversesVeues de Chantilly dessignez et gravees par Perelle. This deplorable
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . the policy of Louis XIV to encourage hiscourtiers to build and lay out gardens, because by so doing theyimpoverished themselves, and became more completely dependent onthe King. The sums expended on gardens by such men as Fouquet,Bordier, Pomponne, Conde, Colbert, or Louvois, must have beenenormous. Country life, in the real sense of the term, was out of These are shown and described in Perelles small views of Chantilly: DiversesVeues de Chantilly dessignez et gravees par Perelle. This deplorable effort was the work of the architect Dubois in 1820, but thelandscape gardener had appeared at Chantilly fifty years before—about 1770. LeHanieau et le jardin anglais qui Ientoure sortirent un beau jour de rimagination deLouis Joseph de Bourbon dent la pensee fut hereusement rendue par son architecteLeroy (M. Macon, Chantilly). Unfortunately the revolution spared the jardinanglais, and wrecked the formal garden, under some confused idea that the latter waspart of the feudal system. Pi. LXIV. L£ CRAUD PARTERRE DEAU ETLE CAt^Al. <U Ckaibil,. ^ , C^.^M^^.^r,^ --,.^..M a U Wrfw., J.« P^...l,^^ J. /t„ CHANTILLV- THFi WATKK PAKTKRRK AND CAWI,. LK NUTRK (see pp. I 75. I 76) [
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