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Aditi Gang
Aditya Thakur
Melvin
varghese
neelesh Gupta
introduction
• The French gardens were
inspired by the “Italian
renaissance gardens”
• Symmetry and geometry are
the keywords when designing
such gardens
Planning by Andre
Planning by Jacques Mollet
Boyceau
COMPONENTS OF FRENCH GARDENS
PARTERRE:-
• A planting bed, usually square or
rectangle containing an
ornamental design made with
low closely clipped hedges,
coloured gravels, and sometimes
flowers.
• Parterres were usually laid out in
geometric patterns, divided by
gravel plants. • They were intended seen from above from
house or terrace.
• A parterre de gazon was made of turf with
pattern cut out and filled with gravel.
Topiary:-
• Trees or bushes trimmed into ornamental shapes. In French gardens, there were
usually trimmed into geometric shapes
Embroidery:-
• A very curling decorative
pattern within a parterre,
created with trimmed yew or
box or made by cutting the
pattern out of a lawn and filling
it with coloured gravel.
Bosquet:-
• A small group of trees,, usually some
distance from the house designed as
an ornamental backdrop
Goose foot
“patte
d’oie”:-
• Three or five
paths or which
spread outward
Allee:- from a single
A straight path, often lined with trees. point.
Principles of French gardens
• A terrace overlooking • A geometric plan using the Trees are planned in straight
the garden, allowing most recent discoveries of lines, and carefully trimmed at
the visitor to see all at
once the entire garden. perspective and optics. a set height
• Location Versailles,France
• Coordinates
48°48′29″N2°6′30″E
• Area 800ha.
Designer• AndréLeNôtre
• CharlesLeBrun
• LouisLeVau
• JulesHardouin-Mansart
PLANNING Grand Canal
Apollo Fountain
• Versailles is the most famous
garden in the world. The scale is
monumental and there is little
sense of enclosure. Groves and Royal Avenue
• Versailles was designed as a Gardens
palatial centre of government for
an absolute monarch, Louis XIV. It
is resplendent as the prime
example of the French Baroque Latona Fountain
style, but it is not a friendly place.
• Avenues project from Louis XIV's Neptune Fountain
palace towards distant horizons, Water Parterres
enfolding town, palace, garden and Dragon Fountain
forest. Swiss Lake
• There are imaculate parterres,
great basins, an orangery, a vast South Parterres
collection of outdoor sculpture and
some of the grandest fountains North Parterres
which have ever been made.
• The park and garden were
designed by Andre Le Nôtre
between 1661 and 1700. There
are magnificient features: huge
parterres, an orangery, famous
fountains , rich bosquets, a 1.8
km cruciform canal.
• The Grand Trianon, another
formal garden, was built on the
site of a former village. Versailles
also has later additions. The Petit
Trianon was given to Marie-
Antoinette in 1774.
Plants and Trees
• Plants 200,000trees
• 210,000flowers planted annually
• Features
• 50 fountains
• 620 waterjets (fed by 35km .
piping)
• 5.57km Grand Canal
(circumference; surface area 23ha.)
• Trees are planted in straight lines and clipped to keep a perfect shape and size