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    of Versailles (French: Jardins du château de Versailles [ʒaʁdɛ̃ dy ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj]) occupy part of what was once the Domaine royal de Versailles, the...
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    Ménagerie royale de Versailles (literal French for "Royal Menagerie of Versailles") was Louis XIV's first major project at Versailles. It was built even...
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    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...
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    Dominique (2001). Jardins et jardiniers de Versailles au grand siècle. Seyssel: Champ Vallon. ISBN 9782876733374. Hoog, Simone (1996). "Versailles". In Turner...
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    ISBN 978-2-84096-664-7. f. Jacquet, Nicolas (2013). Secrets et curiosités des jardins de Versailles. Paris: Parigramme. p. 192. ISBN 978-2-84096-814-6. g. 48°48′58″N...
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  • enflamme les jardins de Versailles". La Croix (in French). August 31, 2007. ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved November 3, 2021. "Les noces royales de louis xiv,...
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    Tourville, by French sculptor Joseph Charles Marin, formerly in the Jardin de Versailles, features prominently in the Village of Tourville-sur-Seine (Normandy...
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  • Unknown title (1978) Unknown title (1978) La manière de montrer les jardins de Versailles (1979) Un chien de saison (TV) (1980) IMDb Director: Bernard-Roland...
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    du Jardin des plantes, founded in 1795 by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre from animals of the ménagerie royale de Versailles, the menagerie at Versailles, which...
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    The Diana of Versailles or Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt (French: Artémis, déesse de la chasse) is a slightly over-lifesize marble statue of the Roman goddess...
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    Menagerie in Versailles (ménagerie royale) was dissolved and these animals were also transferred to the Jardin des Plantes. Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre...
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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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  • of Versailles have a historical relation with the history and evolution of the palace. Of these five structures – the Ménagerie, the Pavillon de la Lanterne...
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    King Louis Philippe I and previous chief of the Palace of Versailles' gardens. The Jardin Massey has been put on the list of the Remarkable Gardens of...
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    Boukie Banane, 2017, Fable 59 Catalogue des sculptures des jardins de Versailles et de Trianon, Le dauphin et le singe Le singe et le dauphin An engraving...
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    The Étretat Gardens (French: Les Jardins D'Étretat) is a cliff-top experimental garden with "living sculptures" in Étretat, Normandy, France. It surrounds...
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    Jardinier de Versailles, Paris, B. Grasset, 2006 Le Jardin de Versailles vu par Alain Baraton, Paris, Hugo image, 2007 La Véritable Histoire des jardins de Versailles...
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    129–130. Thacker, Christopher; Louis XIV (1972). ""La Manière de montrer les jardins de Versailles," by Louis XIV and Others". Garden History. 1 (1): 49–69...
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    Arboretum de Versailles-Chèvreloup (200 hectares) is a major arboretum located just north of the Palace of Versailles at 30, route de Versailles, Rocquencourt...
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    Histoire des Jardins de Versailles (The True History of the Gardens of Versailles), with Alain Baraton in 2007, Les Recettes Inratables de Jean-Pierre...
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    "Encelade de bronze dorée, accablé sous des rochers, et poussant en l'air un gros jet d'eau. / Dans les Jardins de Versailles. / Par Gaspar Mercy de Cambray...
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    The Hameau de la Reine (French pronunciation: [amo də la ʁɛn], The Queen's Hamlet) is a rustic retreat in the park of the Château de Versailles built for...
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    The Château de Chanteloup was an imposing 18th-century French château with elaborate gardens, compared by some contemporaries to Versailles. It was located...
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    of Versailles). During the period 1672-1673, as part of the design for his new Court of France, at what was then a royal hunting lodge at Versailles, Louis...
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    drawing by Pierre Mignard, Jardins de Versailles La Fourberie, following a drawing by Pierre Mignard, Jardins de Versailles Aurora, or daybreak, by Gaspard...
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    Jardin du Luxembourg (French pronunciation: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ dy lyksɑ̃buʁ]), known in English as the Luxembourg Garden, colloquially referred to as the Jardin...
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    parking lot managed by the city of Versailles. This has been in high demand since the temporary closure of the Versailles-Chantiers station parking lot in...
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    André Le Nôtre (category Architects from Versailles)
    Palace of Versailles; his work represents the height of the French formal garden style, or jardin à la française. Prior to working on Versailles, Le Nôtre...
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    The Palace of Versailles Research Centre (in French: Centre de recherche du château de Versailles - CRCV) is the first research centre established in...
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    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...
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