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Le Notre

noun

French landscape gardener who designed many formal gardens including the parks of Versailles (1613-1700). Synonym: Andre Le Notre.

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... during the reign of Francis 1st. Among the number are Azay le Rideau, Chenonceaux, and Chaumont. Blois and Amboise are also absorbingly interesting, but belong partly to an earlier time. The chateau region in Touraine is a treasure land of architectural beauty. In the time of Louis XIV Le Notre changed many of these old chateaux from their fortified state to the more open form made possible by a ...

— Furnishing the Home of Good Taste • Lucy Abbot Throop

... a seignorial garden in the first French style which preceded Le Notre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by globes which resemble cannon-balls of stone. Forty-three balusters can still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

Words linked to "Le Notre" : landscape architect, landscape gardener, Andre Le Notre, landscapist, landscaper