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Le Désert de Retz : a late eighteenth-century French folly garden : the artful landscape of Monsieur de Monville

Title
Le Désert de Retz : a late eighteenth-century French folly garden : the artful landscape of Monsieur de Monville / Diana Ketcham.
Author
Ketcham, Diana.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1994.

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135 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 x 28 cm
Subject
  • Monville, François Nicolas Henri Racine de, 1734-1797 > Homes and haunts > Chambourcy
  • Gardens, English > Chambourcy
  • Désert de Retz (Chambourcy, France)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-132) and index.
Contents
Le Desert de Retz -- The Construction of the Desert de Retz, 1774-1789 -- Sect. 2. Models from Antiquity and Analogs in Contemporary Gardens -- Sect. 3. The Desert in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Sect. 4. The Restoration of the Desert de Retz, 1972-1993 -- Sect. 5. Plates from Le Rouge, Jardins anglo-chinois, 1785 -- Afterword / Olivier Choppin de Janvry.
ISBN
0262111861
LCCN
93050749
OCLC
ocm29668238
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries