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

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

Ian Thompson

370 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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War-monger, womanizer and autocrat, Louis XIV, Frances'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

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