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of Palissy, but M. Louis Audiat disagrees, and points out it 

 is a fountain not a grotto. 



A great French Architect, whose book of Designs is invaluable: he began ANDROUET 

 building the Pont Nettf in 1578, and the Gallery of the Louvre in 1596: 

 being a Protestant ', he died in exile. 



OEHIND the seignorial mansion of Anet there is a terrace 

 *^ from which you descend into the garden. Beneath the Anett 

 terrace is a long vaulted gallery. The garden is of great size, 

 and richly girt with galleries all round about, the three sides 

 of which are as often with arched as with square openings ; the 

 whole rustic. The garden is ornamented with two fountains. 

 Behind it are two large places serving as parks, separated and 

 shut in. These places are fitted as enclosures (parquets), some 

 with meadows, others with clipped trees (taillis) others with 

 warrens, fruit-trees, fish-ponds, and those are separated by alleys 

 and canals. 



Gaillon is fitted with two gardens one of which is on a Gaillon. 

 level with the Castle, and between the two is a place in the 

 manner of a terrace. Now this garden is adorned (accompli} 

 with a beautiful and agreeable gallery, worthy to be so called 

 on account of its length, and of the manner in which it is erected, 

 with a view over the garden on one side, and on the other over 

 the said valley, towards the river. In the midst of the garden is 

 a pavilion, in which is seen a fountain in white marble. As to 

 the other garden, it is contained in this valley, over which the 

 gallery has a marvellously wide prospect, adjoining which is a 

 park of vines, dependent on the house not enclosed. Beyond, 

 in the same valley, in the direction of the river, the Cardinal de 

 Bourbon has erected and built a lieu de Chartreuse, abounding 

 with every pleasure. Moreover there is in this place a Park, 

 which, if you wish to enter, either from the house or from the 

 garden above, you must often ascend, as well by alleys covered 

 with trees, as by terraces always looking over the valley; and 



