LE NOTRE AND VERSAILLES 



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A great many 

 changes took place in 

 the planning of the 

 great parterre in front 

 of the Palace. Boy- 

 ceau's original design 

 consisted of a farterre 

 de broderie with ten 

 -plates handes in ara- 

 besque arranged round 

 a circular basin. In 

 1664 Perelle's engrav- 

 ing shows a parterre of 

 four squares flanked 

 right and left by 

 clumps of trees, and a 

 plan made by La 

 Pointe in the same 

 year shows two plates 

 handes of grass bor- 

 dered with box; the 



LE NOTRE S DESIGN FOR THE PARTERRE D EAU, FROM 

 ORIGINAL DRAWING. 



HIS 



THE RHONE, BY TUBY. ONE OF THE EIGHT FIGURES 

 SURROUNDING THE PARTERRE d'eAU, VERSAILLES. 



next change took place 

 about 1674, when the grass 

 plates handes gave way to 

 fountains and the name was 

 changed to the parterre 

 d^eau. The plan reproduced 

 above is preserved at Ver- 

 sailles, and shows an alter- 

 native scheme of Le Notre 

 for this parterre. The idea 

 appears to have been to 

 create a water parterre, the 

 design of which was traced 

 by multi-coloured currents. 



