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Pleasure Palace.(Marie-Antoinette and the Last Garden at Versailles )(Brief article)(Book review)
Byline: LIESL SCHILLINGER editor: Valerie Steiker
Versailles, Louis XIV's baroque showcase, serves up opulence overload with its gilded, chandeliered salons and its resplendent Hall of Mirrors. But as you leave the palace and stroll through Andre Le Notre's formal gardens, you approach a place of wilder beauty: the pleasure gardens of Marie Antoinette. Beginning at the age of eighteen, the young queen created this refuge to escape the formality of court life. Moving to the jewel-box chateau of the Petit Trianon, she ordered the construction of an Anglo-Chinese garden, a lake and rivers, a grotto, and an alpine hillside complete with fir trees, a footbridge, and a towering boulder called "The Rock."
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