The Sun King's Garden: Louis XIV, Andre le Notre and the Creation of the Gardens of Versailles by Ian Thompson

The Sun King's Garden: Louis XIV, Andre le Notre and the Creation of the Gardens of Versailles

Ian Thompson

304 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative inspiring slow-paced
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Warmonger, womanizer, and autocrat, Louis XIV may also have been history's most fanatical gardener. At Versailles, twelve miles outside Paris, France's self-styled "Sun King" created not only Europe's most lavish palace, but, beginning in 1661, th...

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