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1. 1. The Sun King's Garden

   Louis XIV, André Le Nôtre and the creation of the gardens of Versailles

   

   A richly detailed portrait of André Le Nôtre and the rise of the French formal garden, tracing how his designs for grand parterres, axial vistas, waterworks and clipped geometry at Versailles and other courts became instruments of power, taste and landscape engineering; the book combines biography, technical explanation and cultural history to show how artistic ambition, royal patronage and advances in horticulture and hydraulics transformed the French countryside and exported a controlling vision of nature across Europe, while revealing the personal, political and aesthetic forces that shaped his work and his enduring legacy.