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From Marie Antoinette's garden, an eighteenth-century horticultural album, Élisabeth de Feydeau ; foreword by Catherine Pégard ; [translated from the French by Louise Rogers Lalaurie]

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From Marie Antoinette's garden, an eighteenth-century horticultural album, Élisabeth de Feydeau ; foreword by Catherine Pégard ; [translated from the French by Louise Rogers Lalaurie]

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-237) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

From Marie Antoinette's garden

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

862636604

Responsibility statement

Élisabeth de Feydeau ; foreword by Catherine Pégard ; [translated from the French by Louise Rogers Lalaurie]

Sub title

an eighteenth-century horticultural album

Summary

A horticultural tour of Marie-Antoinette's domain, the lavishly constructed gardens at Versailles, accompanied by eighteenth-century archival illustrations

Table Of Contents

The Petit Trianon : Marie-Antoinette's private domain -- The French garden -- The belvedere -- The English garden -- The wood of solitude -- The queen's hamlet -- The temple of love -- Lines on the gardens of the Petit Trianon / by the Chevalier Bertin -- Descriptive inventory of exotic seed-bearing trees in the gardens of the Petit Trianon (1795)

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