The Sun King's garden : Louis XIV, Andre Le Nôtre, and the creation of the gardens of Versailles

by Ian H. Thompson

Paper Book, 2006

Status

Withdrawn

Call number

SB470.L4T46 2006

Collection

General

Publication

New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006.

Description

"Warmonger, womaniser and autocrat, Louis XIV, France's self-styled 'Sun King', was also history's most fanatical gardener. At Versailles, twelve miles outside Paris, he created not only Europe's most lavish palace, but the most extensive gardens the Western world has ever seen. The domain of Versailles now covers 1,890 acres (about twice the size of New York's Central Park), but in its heyday under Louis, the Grand Parc covered an astounding 19,800 acres."--BOOK JACKET.