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History of Garden Art
FIG. 394. VERSAILLES—PLAN OF THE PETIT PARC
Also the plan drawn by Gomboust in 1652 of Paris and its environs shows Versailles
with only a few parterres and surrounded by an immense park.
Louis XIV. seems to have shared his father's affection for the place from the
beginning. Its interest turned on the hunting; and after he had his first hunt there as
a boy of twelve, he grew so fond of the simple, pretty little castle that it took him a long
time to decide on a new building. He never did make up his mind to pull the old one down,
but instead gave the builders the hard task of making new shells, one after another, round
the old kernel. And so it was the garden and not the beauty of the castle that first excited
his envy and sense of rivalry at Vaux-le-Vicomte.
History of Garden Art
FIG. 394. VERSAILLES—PLAN OF THE PETIT PARC
Also the plan drawn by Gomboust in 1652 of Paris and its environs shows Versailles
with only a few parterres and surrounded by an immense park.
Louis XIV. seems to have shared his father's affection for the place from the
beginning. Its interest turned on the hunting; and after he had his first hunt there as
a boy of twelve, he grew so fond of the simple, pretty little castle that it took him a long
time to decide on a new building. He never did make up his mind to pull the old one down,
but instead gave the builders the hard task of making new shells, one after another, round
the old kernel. And so it was the garden and not the beauty of the castle that first excited
his envy and sense of rivalry at Vaux-le-Vicomte.