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GARDEN CRAFT IN EUROPE 



Marie Antoinette had always been fond of gardening, and whilst still 

 Dauphine had much wished to own a country house. Fired with envy at 

 the gardens which the Due de Chartres had laid out at Monceau, she deter- 

 mined to imitate him. The King therefore gave her Trianon, and an English 

 gardener, Richard, was employed to lay out the grounds. He accumu- 

 lated a variety of garden buildings, a pagoda, Chinese aviary, theatre. 

 Temple of Diana, Turkish fountains, dairy, farm. His work, however, did 

 not give satisfaction, and the Count de Caraman put before the Queen 



THE MILL AT THE HAMLET, PETIT TRIANON. 



another project, which was accepted. The works were at once begun, 

 but were stopped soon after for lack of funds. In 1776 the jeu de bague was 

 set up, then once again the plans were discarded and the architect Mique 

 elaborated an entirely new plan. Amongst his innovations were a hermitage, 

 a salon hydraidique, Chinese decorations, an ancient temple on a large 

 rock, and a belvedere. Between 1778 and 1782 further works were carried 

 out — a thatched cottage, a stone bridge and on a grassy island Le Temple 

 d' Amour was erected from the designs of the sculptor Deschamps. The next 

 year Mique also planned for the Queen a little_hamlet like that at Chantilly- 



