Andre Le Notre: Gardener to the Sun King

by Érik Orsenna

Andre Le Notre, chief landscape gardener at Versailles, enjoyed a thirty-five-year relationship with his patron, Louis XIV, the Sun-King. Born in Paris, grandson and son of gardeners, he grew up in the Tuileries and amid the flourishing of the decorative artssculpture, gardening, painting, architecturein the nearby workshops of the Louvre. This book recounts his life and achievements in a distillation of facts and musings. Le Notre was recognized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807614874
• ISBN13: 9780807614877
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"