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broderie, with here and there the wonderful vases of Le Brun. The 

 greatest feature of St. Cloud is the cascade (illus., pp.' 122 and 146), which 

 was designed upon the hillside overlooking the Seine, and which when fully 

 working, can hardly be matched in Europe The cascade shows the distinct 

 influence of those at the Villas Torlonia and Aldobrandini at Frascati ; it is 

 divided into two parts by a wide terrace; the upper part is an earlier work bv 



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Le Pautre, the lower was afterwards cleverly added by Mansart. The water, 

 spurting from an urn flanked on either side by recumbent figures of the Seine 

 and Loire, falls down a series of steps and water buffets, through masks, shells, 

 and dolphins into a big basin, and thence beneath the terrace to the second 

 cascade shaped in horseshoe form. The wonderful series of statues by 

 Coysevox and other great French sculptors has been removed, and now 

 only poor copies remain. There is still the delightfully cool allee cTeau 



