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Terms and conditions applyMarie-Antoinette and the Last Garden at Versailles
Christian Duvernois
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Format: Book
Pages: 224
Publisher: Rizzoli
Date Published: Oct 2008
Stock Code: 65776
Binding: Hardback
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Marie-Antoinette has been idolised as the height of eighteenth-century French style and vilified as the spark that ignited the French Revolution. This book departs from such traditional interpretations of the infamous queens reign and chooses to reflect on the humanistic aspects of her private realm. To escape the formalities and royal obligations of Louis XVIs court, Marie-Antoinette created a private realm of pleasure for herself at the Petit Trianon and Hameau, where she planted the first Anglo-Chinese garden; created a trysting grotto; a working farm; and revolutionised architecture and gardening trends for the century to come. Marie-Antoinettes entire private domain and its story are told in beautiful photographic detail by Franois Halard for the first time since its recent restoration and accompanied by well-researched texts by garden expert Christian Duvernois.
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