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et Virginie, in which the descriptions of nature created a great impression ; 

 in 1782, Le Voyage en Grece, by Gouffier ; in the same year Les Jardins 

 of Delille, and also the Idylls of Gessner, and La Nature Champetre, by 

 Marnezia. 



This revulsion of feeling was quite in accordance with the taste of the 

 time, which tended towards the life of the fields and opposed the simplicity 

 of rustic manners to the luxury and artificiality of town life. It soon became 

 the fashion for landscape gardens to have an entire rustic village or hameau ; 



THE HAMLET AT THE PETIT TRIANON. 



one of the first was laid out at Chantilly about 1780. A water mill was set 

 on the bank of a meandering stream with several groups of thatched cottages. 

 One farmhouse of modest exterior contained a richly decorated salon and 

 boudoir, and a dining hall with ceiling painted to represent foliage, that one 

 might fancy oneself in a dense forest ; other thatched cottages were devoted 

 to the billiard-room, library, etc. 



According to Delille, the two first landscape gardens were those of Tivoli, 

 laid out by Boutin near Paris, and those of the Duchesse de Boufflers ; but 

 the perfect type of the new style was the Petit Trianon at Versailles. 



