The garden as it appears in the engraving ( illustration ) was designed by Le Nôtre's nephew, Claude Desgotz.

André Le Nôtre's main axis at Versailles, continued by the canal, runs up to the horizon.

Le Nôtre's were designed to be seen from above, from a building or terrace.

André Le Nôtre | Le Nôtre's central axis of the Tuileries ' parterre s in a late 17th-century engraving

During the third stage of the reconstruction of the palace the geometric garden parterres were replaced with embroidered parterres à la française inspired by André Le Nôtre's treaties.

Although originally a country retreat used for special festivities — and known more for André Le Nôtre's gardens and fountains — Versailles eventually became the permanent home of the king.

* Le Bois des Moutiers A Lutyens & Gertrude Jekyll country house & garden in France 1898

When Fouquet became King Louis XIV's superintendent of finances ( Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry ( France )) in 1657, he commissioned Le Vau, Le Brun and Le Nôtre to renovate his estate and garden to match his grand ambition.

Le Nôtre employed an optical illusion called anamorphosis abscondita ( which might be roughly translated as ' hidden distortion ') in his garden design in order to establish decelerated perspective.

Once the canal and grottos have been passed, the large sloping lawn is reached and the garden is viewed from the initial viewpoint ’ s vanishing point, thus completing the circuit as intended by Le Nôtre.

Closer to the house were a series of more formal gardens, including canal ponds bordered by plantations containing symmetrical walks resembling the " rond-points " ( circular clearings in a garden from which straight paths radiate ) introduced by the landscape gardener André Le Nôtre.

He had spent enormous sums in building a magnificent château on his estate of Vaux-le-Vicomte, which in extent, magnificence and splendour of decoration was a forerunner of Versailles, and where he brought together three artists that the King would later take up for Versailles: the architect Louis Le Vau, the painter Charles Le Brun, and the garden designer André le Nôtre.

* Le remède de fortune (" The Cure of Ill Fortune ") ( c. 1340s, before 1357 ) – The narrator is asked by his lady if the poem she has found is by him ; the narrator flees from her and comes to a garden where " Hope " consoles him and teaches him how to be a good lover ; he returns to his lady.

* 2000 The Garden History Society's Le Nôtre Garden, and Piet Oudolf's winning ' Evolution ' garden

In 1664, Colbert, the superintendent of buildings of the King, commissioned the landscape architect André Le Nôtre, to redesign the entire garden.

Le Notre wanted his grand perspective from the palace to the western end of the garden to continue outside the garden.

Le Nôtre and his hundreds of masons, gardeners and earth-movers worked on the garden from 1666 to 1672.

In town is the Cathedral of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, a 19th century building which has a notable grey stone highlighted by white statues ; many other colonial buildings ; La place du Champ d ' Arbaud, the main square and Le Jardin Pichon, the park adjoining to the south & the Zoological and Botanical Park lies on a hilltop garden on the banks of La Rivière-aux-Herbes.

The French Classical garden style, or Garden à la française, climaxed during the reign of Louis XIV of France ( 1638 – 1715 ) and his head gardener of Gardens of Versailles, André Le Nôtre ( 1613 – 1700 ).

" A younger Gossamer appeared in an episode of Baby Looney Tunes as a helper in Pepe Le Pew's garden.

Menton is famous for its gardens, including the Jardin Serre de la Madone, the Jardin botanique exotique de Menton (" Le Val Rahmeh "), the Fontana Rosa, and the Maria Serena garden.

Indebted to Le Corbusier's New Architecture, Janco theorized that Bucharest had the " luck " of not yet being systematized or built-up, and that it could be easily turned into a garden city, without ever repeating the West's " chain of mistakes ".

The garden had a scenery enclosed by clipped hedging, even as the Belvedere was building, in the formal French manner with gravelled walks and jeux d ' eau by Dominique Girard, who had trained in the gardens of Versailles as a pupil of André Le Nôtre.

Reclus reading " Le Cri du Peuple " in the garden of his home in Brussels, ca.

Sydney Le Blanc, age 15, Staten Island, N.Y., showing a Doberman Pinscher, was 2nd.

In Canada, Jesuit missionaries such as Fathers LeClercq, Le Jeune and Sagard, in the 17th century, provide the oldest ethnographic records of native tribes in what was then the Dominion of Canada.

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.

It was in the age of absolute monarchy launched by Louix XIV in the 17th century that the likes of Poussin and Le Brun put France in the forefront of European art.

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

Braudel was editor of Annales from 1956 to 1968, followed by the medievalist Jacques Le Goff.

However, Braudel's informal successor as head of the school was Le Roy Ladurie, who was unable to maintain a consistent focus.

An eminent member of this school, Georges Duby, wrote in the foreword of his book Le dimanche de Bouvines that the history he taught relegated the sensational to the sidelines and was reluctant to give a simple accounting of events, but strived on the contrary to pose and solve problems and, neglecting surface disturbances, to observe the long and medium-term evolution of economy, society and civilisation.

The most important was the study of the Peasants of Languedoc by Braudel's star pupil and successor Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.

This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel and made into the setting of his 2001 novel Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul.

It was during this time that he followed closely the work of the main driving force behind the new modernism, Le Corbusier, and visited him in his Paris office several times in the following years.

It could be said that Aalto's international reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition ( 1949 ), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier.

Weil returned to France via Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was detained at Le Havre in January 1940.

He was charged with failure to report for duty, and was imprisoned in Le Havre and then Rouen.

In 1939 Grothendieck went to France and lived in various camps for displaced persons with his mother, first at the Camp de Rieucros, and subsequently lived for the remainder of the war in the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he was sheltered and hidden in local boarding-houses or pensions.

The word ansible was coined by Ursula K. Le Guin in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World.

Le Guin's ansible was said to communicate " instantaneously ", but other authors have adopted the name for devices only capable of finite-speed communication, although still faster than light.

In the middle and late 19th century, several renowned Mesoamerican scholars, starting with Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, and including Edward Herbert Thompson and Augustus Le Plongeon proposed that Atlantis was somehow related to Mayan and Aztec culture.

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.

The castle was built between 1864 and 1879 on a cliff by the Atlantic ocean, and was designed by Viollet Le Duc in the Neo Gothic style.