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water called the Obelisque. Here water pipes were arranged to make an effect 

 of a regular obelisk three yards in diameter at its base, and twenty-seven 

 yards high ; owing to the careful adjustment of the pipes the colour of the 

 water as it fell was as white as snow. Among the green walks diverging 

 from the Bassin de Neptu7ie Le Notre planned the bosquet of the Theatre 

 (TEau (illus., p. 102). It took its name from the three cascades that met in a 



L OBELISQUE D EAU, FROM RIGAUD. 



central oval space ; the effects of the hundreds of water jets in the cool greenery 

 of the bosquet were unequalled, but nothing now remains of this marvellous 

 work, except engravings and paintings. The Theatre d''Eau disappeared 

 in the middle of the eighteenth century, and in its place is a large cup- 

 shaped hollow covered with turf. 



In addition to the Theatre d'Eau there was another theatre known as 



