Title: The Sun King's garden
First published: 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.
Subjects: 17th century, Design, French Gardens, Gardens, Gardens, French, History, Influence, Gardening, france, Gardens, france
Places: France, France) Parc de Versailles (Versailles, Parc de Versailles (Versailles, France)
People: André Le Nôtre (1613-1700), Louis XIV King of France (1638-1715)
Time periods: 17th century
LC classification: SB470.L4 T46 2006