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colossal allegorical statue placed in the centre. Henri IV also added the 

 canals and planted avenues upon both sides. 



The splendid Chateau de Chenonceaux was another of the palaces of 

 Francois I. It passed into his hands in 1524, but he did not reside here 

 very much, and Henri II presented it to Diane de Poitiers, who, in 1556, 

 employed Philibert de I'Orme to remodel the building and lay out the 



gardens. In later 

 years Bernard 

 Palissy, whose work 

 we shall consider 

 presently, created a 

 garden, the descrip- 

 tion of which reads 

 like a fable. He 

 completely aban- 

 doned himself to 

 his exuberant fancy 

 for rockeries, basins, 

 and grotesque orna- 

 ments. 



About the year 

 1538 the Constable 

 Anne de Montmo- 

 rency began the 

 improvement and 

 rebuilding of the 

 Chateau de Chan- 

 tilly, near Paris. 

 The property had 

 passed into his 

 hands in 1522 and soon after this date, at a period when he was estranged 

 from the Court, he conceived the idea of converting the castle into a 

 rich and agreeable dwelling, surrounded with gardens and parterres, and 

 enlarging and planting the park. 



A most important addition to gardening literature appeared in 1545, 

 when Charles Estienne (i 504-1 564), a physician of Paris and member of a 



FONTAINEBLEAU IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY FROM THE PLAN 

 BY DU CERCEAU. 



