From Marie Antoinette's garden : an eighteenth century horticultural album / Élisabeth de Feydeau ; foreword by Catherine Pégard ; translated from the French by Louise Rogers Lalaurie.
Material type: TextPublisher: Paris : Flammarion, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: English language editionDescription: 239 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 32 cmISBN:- 9782080201423
- 2080201425 (hc.)
- L'Herbier de Marie-Antoinette. English
- Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793
- Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Versailles
- Hameau de la reine (Versailles, France)
- Petit Trianon (Versailles, France)
- Petit Trianon (Versailles, France)
- Hameau de la reine (Versailles, France)
- Petit Trianon (Versailles, France)
- Hameau de la reine (Versailles, France)
- Architecture and Planning
- Architecture and Planning
- Homes
- Botanical specimens
- Botany
- Gardens, French -- History
- Gardens -- France -- Versailles -- History
- Botanical specimens -- France -- Versailles -- History -- Pictorial works
- Botany -- France -- Versailles -- History -- Pictorial works
- Gardens, French -- History -- Pictorial works
- Gardens, French
- France -- Versailles -- Parc de Versailles
- Parc de Versailles (Versailles, France) -- History
- France -- Versailles
- Parc de Versailles (Versailles, France) -- Pictorial works
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | State Botanical Collection | RBG | 712.609443663 FRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | RBG00010687 |
Originally published in French as: L'Herbier de Marie-Antoinette. Paris : Flammarion, c2012.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-237) and index.
The Petit Trianon : Marie-Antoinette's private domain -- The French garden -- The belvedere -- The English garden -- The wood of solitude -- The queen's hamlet -- The temple of love -- Lines on the gardens of the Petit Trianon / by the Chevalier Bertin -- Descriptive inventory of exotic seed-bearing trees in the gardens of the Petit Trianon (1795).
A horticultural tour of Marie-Antoinette's domain, the lavishly constructed gardens at Versailles, accompanied by eighteenth-century archival illustrations.
Translated from the French.
RBG copy donated by the Estate of Anne Marie MacArthur, January 2019.