European and Japanese Gardens 
RUINS OF THE PALACE ST. CLOUD 
imagine the charm of ingenuousness with which such antics 
must have been accompanied for them to have been received 
as they were. When word of this event reached the court at 
Versailles, high wagers were laid that the tale was untrue be¬ 
cause incredible. But Louis XIV, when he heard the account, 
burst into laughter, asserting he knew it was true, “Because” 
said he, “ he kisses even me, when he has been long without 
seeing me ! ” 
M. Andre maintains that the great Frenchman found 
nothing in Italy worthy of his attention, and returned without 
having learned anything,—a claim which we need not take too 
seriously. He busied himself, while there, by creating two of 
the finest gardens in the vicinity of Rome, those of the Villa 
Pamhli and the Villa Ludovisi. He was ennobled in 1665, and 
died in 1700. Coysevox, the sculptor of many of the exquisite 
details of the great gardener’s work, executed his bust, which 
is now in the Louvre. 
A list of Le Notre’s works would be too long for me to give 
here; but I must mention, in addition to his masterpiece at 
Versailles, his gardens at Marly, now nearly obliterated, but 
which must have been only less fine than Versailles, though in 
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