The French formal garden, also called the jardin à la française (French for 'garden in the French manner'), is a style of "landscape" garden based on symmetry...

A formal garden is a garden with a clear structure, geometric shapes and in most cases a symmetrical layout. Its origin goes back to the gardens which...

French garden. The French formal garden (French: jardin à la française) contrasted with the design principles of the English landscape garden (French:...

Italy. The style was brought to France and expressed in the gardens of the French Renaissance. Some of the earliest formal parterres of clipped evergreens...

"landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical French formal garden which...

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The Tuileries Garden (French: Jardin des Tuileries, IPA: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ de tɥilʁi]) is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the...

French landscape garden (French: jardin anglais, jardin à l'anglaise, jardin paysager, jardin pittoresque, jardin anglo-chinois) is a style of garden...

gardens in Europe, which greatly influenced other countries, especially the French formal garden and Dutch gardens and, mostly through these, gardens...

update the large French formal garden. He also became an avid collector of furniture and royal art objects dispersed after the French Revolution. Since...

west of the palace, the gardens cover some 800 hectares of land, much of which is landscaped in the classic French formal garden style perfected here by...

Europe; the Palace of Versailles and the French formal garden were copied by other courts all over Europe. French Classicism was, from the beginning, an...

parterre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A parterre is a part of a formal garden constructed on a level substrate, consisting of symmetrical patterns...

became known as the jardin à la française or French formal garden. The grandest example is found in the Gardens of Versailles designed during the 17th century...

In the French formal garden, a bosquet (French, from Italian bosco, "grove, wood") is a formal plantation of trees in a wide variety of forms, some open...

the East Garden. Mellon created a space with a more defined central lawn, bordered by flower beds that were planted in a French formal garden style while...

parks and large gardens have been more influenced by the Italian garden, French formal garden, and even the English landscape garden. Spain has a variety...

Gardens of the French Renaissance were initially inspired by the Italian Renaissance garden, which evolved later into the grander and more formal jardin...

the Palace of Versailles; his work represents the height of the French formal garden style, or jardin à la française. Prior to working on Versailles,...

The traditional kitchen garden, vegetable garden, also known as a potager (from the French jardin potager) or in Scotland a kailyaird, is a space separate...

throughout Europe, influencing the gardens of the French Renaissance, the English knot garden, and the French formal garden style developed in the 17th century...

1754 but it was forced to sell after the French Revolution but re-bought it later. The French formal garden was created from 1992 by a new owner, interior...

garden. The gardens of Het Loo Palace, laid out by a pupil of Le Notre under William III, were the largest Dutch version of the French formal garden,...

Neoclassical-style château with several French formal gardens, a rose garden and an orangerie. It is set on 59 acres of grounds in French landscape style within the...

trees on either side, and flowerbeds in the symmetrical style of the French formal garden. The new boulevard was called the "Grand Cours", or "Grand Promenade"...

The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [ʃato də vo lə vikɔ̃t]) is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 kilometres...

series, Great Gardens of Italy, was also published. Around the World in 80 Gardens Monty Don's French Gardens Monty Don's Paradise Gardens "Monty Don's...

were among a half-dozen gardens introducing the Italian garden style to France that laid the groundwork for the French formal garden. Unlike the parterres...

and gardens; he commissioned André Le Nôtre and Louis Le Vau to redesign the large parterre into a French formal garden. He removed the hanging garden which...

illustrated by Runar Strandberg, "The French formal garden after Le Nostre", in The French Formal Garden, Elizabeth B. MacDougall and F. Hamilton Hazlehurst...