FRENCH GARDENS : i6th AND EARLY 17TH CENTURIES 73 



The Chateau de Creil, which was commenced by Charles V and destroyed 

 by the Prince de Conde before the Revolution, was planned on a little island in 

 the river Oise in Picardy. The garden shown in Du Cerceau's plan is not exten- 

 sive and consists of four enclosures divided into simple knots, each garden 

 surrounded by a high wall and one containing a pavilion overlooking the river. 



Montargis (illus.,pp. 72 and 74) was,' in the words of Du Cerceau, "un 

 demesne vrayment Royale." Situated upon the junction of the Loing and 



THE CHATEAU DE BEAUREGARD. 



Vernisson, it had one of the most beautiful sites in France. Its group of 

 buildings of different periods, clustered round a central keep, were sheltered 

 from the east by great forests. During the Revolution the greater part of 

 the chateau was destroyed, and nothing now remains save the fine buttressed 

 terrace. Upon the original plan is a "note that the small garden within the 

 castle was known as the Jardin d^Orleans ; it was probably used as a 

 herb or medicinal garden. Du Cerceau's view shows how the Grant jardin. 



