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family of famous printers, published his treatise on agriculture. In 1570 

 he published in conjunction with his father-in-law, Jean Liebault, a work 

 entitled La Maison Rustiqtie. This book went through upwards of thirty 

 editions, and was translated into English in 1600 by Richard Surflet, and was 

 reprinted in 1616 byGervase Markham. " It is a commendable and seemely 

 thing," says the author," to behold out of a window manie acres of ground 

 well tilled and husbanded, whether it be a Medow, a Plot for planting of 



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Vernevl 



Fontaine pov^ le iardrin 



A FOUNTAIN AT THE CHATEAU DE VERNEUIL, FROM DU CERCEAU. J 



Willowes, or arable ground : but yet it is much more to behold faire and 

 comely Proportions, handsome and pleasant Arbors, and, as it were. Closets, 

 delightfuU borders of Lavender, Rosemarie, Boxe, and other such like." 

 In the middle of the sixteenth century, Androuet du Cerceau began 

 the wonderful series of surveys for his great work Les plus excellents Bastiments 

 de France, many of the original drawings for which are now preserved in 

 the British Museum. 



The work of Du Cerceau gives an excellent resume of French architecture 



