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    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...
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    garden (jardin à la française). Even during the lifetime of Louis XIV and his gardens of Versailles, the formal, symmetrical jardin à la française was criticized...
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    Felipe V. The palace is in a restrained Baroque style, surrounded by extensive gardens in the formal Jardin à la française style with sculptural fountains...
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    The Nemours Estate is a 200-acre (81 ha) country estate with jardin à la française formal gardens and a French neoclassical mansion in Wilmington, Delaware...
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    Tivoli, and then spread to France, where it became known as the jardin à la française or French formal garden. The grandest example is found in the Gardens...
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    work represents the height of the French formal garden style, or jardin à la française. Prior to working on Versailles, Le Nôtre collaborated with Louis...
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  • carefully arranged, shaped and continually maintained. A French formal garden or jardin à la française, is a specific kind of formal garden, laid out in the...
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    embellished with a jardin à la française. In 1853 the landscape architect the Count of Choulot [fr] redesigned the gardens, adding a landscape garden...
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    Renaissance garden, which evolved later into the grander and more formal jardin à la française during the reign of Louis XIV, by the middle of the 17th century...
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    reconstructed in the 17th century, and embellished with a garden à la française (jardin à la française). In 1853, the gardens were redone by the celebrated...
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    Jean had also been a gardener at the Tuileries. He immediately began transforming the Tuileries into a formal jardin à la française, a style he had first...
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    18th-century château with a jardin à la française. Clos de Villeneuve in Valensole. 18th-century Provençal bastide with a garden à la française. Conservatoire botanique...
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    enduring and popular forms of the Louis XIV style is the jardin à la française or French formal garden, a style based on symmetry and the principle of imposing...
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    and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical jardin à la française of the 17th century as the principal style for large parks and gardens...
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    son Louis XIV, wanted by Mme de Choisy. The jardin à la française is made up of boxwood floor carvings and a flanked terrasse of two pavillons. The castle...
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    Baroque (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    unknown architect, unknown date The Baroque garden, also known as the jardin à la française or French formal garden, first appeared in Rome in the 16th century...
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    particular a bathroom covered with painted wood panels and sculptures from 1662, The château has a jardin à la française, redone in 1936–1939, featuring a terrace...
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    formal garden (French: jardin à la française) contrasted with the design principles of the English landscape garden (French: jardin à l'anglaise) namely,...
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    formal garden à la française, and he laid out a series of squares along an east–west alley closed at the east end by the Medici Fountain, and a rectangle...
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    Carnesse, the Tuileries Garden was redesigned in 1664 by Le Nôtre as a jardin à la française, which emphasized symmetry, order, and long perspectives. His formal...
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    however, was not achieved as the topology of the gardens favored the jardin à la française over an English-style garden. Then, in 1860, much of the old growth...
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    André Le Nôtre, the French jardin à la française landscape architect. He became both "rich and honoured and had 'improved' a greater acreage of ground...
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    Spain." The palace is set in extensive gardens designed in the Jardin à la française style, whose epitome is the Gardens of Versailles, and beyond those...
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    in France French architecture category French landscape garden Jardin à la française Gardens of the French Renaissance List of French architects Paris...
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    de Marie-Antoinette. "Les Jardins à la française". chateauversailles.fr (in French). Retrieved 2 May 2013.. "Notice de la base biographique". Centre...
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    mid-17th century, under Louis XIV, the French formal garden, or Jardin à la française, gradually replaced the Renaissance style garden; it was more formal...
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    regarding the Shroud of Turin. Emmanuel Philibert created a wide park in the jardin à la française style that opens for the castle's northwards view. It was...
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  • Lemgo, Germany Les calligraphies du vent - 2005, Shanghai, China Jardin à la française - 2005, Hangzhou, China Innocence - 2005, Brive, France Poème en...
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    of the symmetrical and geometrically planned Baroque garden (aka jardin à la française). Russian Revival - Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow, Russia...
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    français de la Culture. (in French) Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, tr.,The memoirs of François René Châteaubriant 1902:238 "Jardin à la française Chateau de...
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