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advising at Ermenonville, Morel was responsible for the Due 

 d'Aumont's Pare at Guiscard and a seat near Chateau Thierry. 

 Watelet was the creator of * Moulin Joli ' and also of an ' Essai 

 sur les Jardins.' 1 



Other historic gardens of this period were Morfontaine, Mere- 

 ville, the Park of the Fermier-General Laborde, designed by Joseph 

 Vernet and Hubert Robert; and Maupertuis (now the Elysee) 

 belonging to the Marquis de Montesquieu. 2 But in designing some 

 of their chief Jardins Anglais, the French had the assistance of 

 Thomas Blaikie, a Scotsman, who between 1776 and the Revolu- 

 tion, laid out many of the best French gardens, including 

 Maupertuis, ' Bagatelle ' in the Bois de Boulogne for the Comte 

 d'Artpis (in 1779) and alterations made in the Jardin (now 

 Pare) Monceau(x) for the Due de Chartres, which had been laid 

 out by Carmontelle. Here is one view by the latter of the 

 Chinese portion of the garden, which went through many vicissi- 

 tudes, some of the original features (for instance, the pyramid 

 from the ' Bois des Tombeaux ' ) still surviving. 



One more name brings us to an end of our list of the old 

 school of landscape gardeners, that of Humphry Repton, the 

 first to call himself professionally by the title. Repton's method 

 when called on to improve a place was to prepare a description and 

 plan of it in its existing state with his suggestions for its alteration. 

 By an ingenious system of slides over his illustrations he was able 

 to show a plan as it was, and as he proposed it should be. 



' Amenity ' Repton has very distinctly told us what he considers 

 the requisites of perfect Landscape Gardening: viz., first ' to display 

 the natural beauties and hide the natural defects of every situa- 

 tion ; secondly, to give the appearance of extent and freedom 

 by disguising or hiding the boundary ; thirdly, to conceal every 

 interference of art, however expensive, making the whole appear 

 the production of nature only ; and fourthly, to remove or conceal 

 all objects of mere convenience or comfort if incapable of being 

 ornamental or of becoming proper parts of the general scenery.' " 



1 See ante pp. 178-181. a See ante pp. 199, 208-12. 



'' See ante pp. 218-20. 



