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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.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Paris : Flammarion, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: English language editionDescription: 239 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 32 cmISBN:
  • 9782080201423
  • 2080201425 (hc.)
Uniform titles:
  • L'Herbier de Marie-Antoinette. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 712.609443663 23
Contents:
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).
Summary: A horticultural tour of Marie-Antoinette's domain, the lavishly constructed gardens at Versailles, accompanied by eighteenth-century archival illustrations.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
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.

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