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THE GREAT PARTERRE AT THE CHATEAU DE GAILLON, FROM DU CERCEAU. 



ings of the Seine about thirty miles south-east of Rouen, was erected between 

 1497 and 1 5 10 and was the most sumptuous private residence in France. 

 "In the eighteenth century people said of a fine country seat *C'est un petit 

 Versailles ' ; in the sixteenth the saying was : — ' C'est un petit Gaillon.' 

 Its creator was George of Amboise, Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen and 

 Prime Minister to Louis XII, the chief of a group of enlightened prelates 

 who did much to spread Renaissance culture in France." 



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THE CHATEAU DE BLOIS. 



