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GARDEN CRAFT IN EUROPE 



The idea was never carried out, and in its stead Louis XIV formed the two 

 large pools enclosed within marble kerbs that mirror on their surface the long~ 

 lines of the white palace. Around this kerb are placed a series of bronzes 

 without equal in Europe, — each one a masterpiece of grace and dignity. The 

 angles of each basin are marked by four recumbent figures representing the 

 rivers of France by Tuby, le Hongre, Regnaudin, and Coysevox, and between 

 are graceful figures of recumbent nymphs alternating with playful groups of 



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THE FOUNTAIN OF APOLLO. 



children. In this immense garden, to quote the words of Louis XIV, there 

 is " childhood everywhere." The whole of the wonderful series of bronzes 

 v^ras 'cast by the Brothers Keller of Zurich. " They will do honour to the 

 France of the last two centuries as long as an artist lives to visit them, and as 

 long as thoughtful minds take pleasure in the places where the figures of 

 history can be made to live and move." 



In a part of the garden known as the Salle du Conseil was the piece-of- 



