A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . iE DE ... ^.V. .? /..../.. v/^.... .»,^ / . {Iercllc —Vli;\V FROM THE GARDENS. J. H, ArANSART (p. TQr)). LE DE A FtrW dt* r Mjr,rn^ ...,. \,l<rclk MARIA. NITAV FROM THK ENTRANCE (p. 1 99) I, TO FACK V. 199] JULES HARDOUIN MANSART 199 country houses that has ever been conceived. Saint-Simon assertsquite wrongly that the cost of it from first to last was nearly equal tothat of Versailles/ but everything had to be done; whole groves weretransplanted
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . iE DE ... ^.V. .? /..../.. v/^.... .»,^ / . {Iercllc —Vli;\V FROM THE GARDENS. J. H, ArANSART (p. TQr)). LE DE A FtrW dt* r Mjr,rn^ ...,. \,l<rclk MARIA. NITAV FROM THK ENTRANCE (p. 1 99) I, TO FACK V. 199] JULES HARDOUIN MANSART 199 country houses that has ever been conceived. Saint-Simon assertsquite wrongly that the cost of it from first to last was nearly equal tothat of Versailles/ but everything had to be done; whole groves weretransplanted from Compiegne and duly died, woods were turned intowater-pieces and again transformed into woods, and then there was the machine de Marly, built and maintained at great cost to pump waterto Marly and Versailles, imperfectly fulfilling its purpose, and neverceasing to produce an intolerable noise by the groaning and creakingof its machinery. Marly was begun in 1679 and was not finished in1695, by which date the total cost amounted to over 11 million Chateau itself, finished in 1684, was a relatively modest two-storeybuilding in nine bays, divided by Corinthian pilasters with the usualthree-bay frontispiece and
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