List of Remarkable Gardens of France

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Gardens of the Palace of Versailles, Île-de-France (Parterre du Midi)
Gardens of the Château de Villandry, Indre-et-Loire (Salon de Musique)
Manoir of Eyrignac, Dordogne
Gardens of the Château de Vendeuvre, Calvados
Claude Monet's house and garden in Giverny
Villa Ephrussi
de Rothschild, Alpes-Maritimes
Château de la Napoule, Alpes-Maritimes
Parc du Mugel, La Ciotat, Bouches-du-Rhône
Cubist Garden of the Villa Noailles, Parc Saint-Bernard, Hyères, Var
Botanical garden of Upper Brittany

The Remarkable Gardens of France is intended to be a list and description, by region, of the more than three hundred gardens classified as "Jardins remarquables" by the Ministry of Culture and the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France.[1]

Gardens of Alsace

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Gardens of Alsace

Bas-Rhin

Haut-Kœnigsbourg
from the road between Châtenois and Kintzheim

Haut-Rhin

Gardens of Aquitaine

Dordogne

Manoir d'Eyrignac (Dordogne)
  • jonquil in season; and a garden of vegetables and flowers grouped by color. (See pictures.)
  • Cedar of Lebanon. (See pictures)
  • Le Buisson-de-Cadouin – Garden of Planbuisson. The garden presents two hundred and sixty four different types of bamboo, from dwarf bamboo to giant, as well as exotic trees, such as Paulownia fortunei. The garden is particularly attractive at the end of summer, autumn and winter. (See photos)
  • Saint-Cybranet – Gardens of Albarède An unusual modern garden, created by landscape architect Serge Lapouge. The garden features one thousand species adapted to the dry and rigorous climate and poor soil of the region. It presents fruit trees, aromatic plants, a topiary garden, old types of vegetables and roses, as well as examples of the rural architecture of the Périgord region. (see photos)
Rose Garden, Château de Losse (Dordogne)

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Gardens of Marqueyssac (Dordogne)
  • Vézac – Gardens of Marqueyssac. Built in the 17th century by Bertrand Vernet, Counselor to the King. The original garden was created by a pupil of André Le Nôtre, and featured gardens, terraces, and a kitchen garden surrounding the château. A grand promenade one hundred meters long was added at the end of the 18th century. Beginning in 1866, the new owner, Julien de Cerval, who was inspired by Italian gardens, built rustic structures, redesigned the parterres, laid out five kilometers of walks, and planted pines and cypress trees. (See Photos)
  • Terrasson-Lavilledieu – Gardens of the Imagination (fr: Jardins de l'Imaginaire). This contemporary garden, a public park of the town of Terrasson, was designed in 1996 by landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson to present thirteen tableaux of the myths and legends of the history of gardens. It uses simple natural elements; trees, flowers, water and stone to suggest the passage of mankind from nature to agriculture to the city. It uses a symbolic sacred wood, a rose garden, topiary art, and fountains to tell the story. (See Pictures)
  • Vélines – Gardens of Sardy. A small garden from the 1950s built around a country house, with a shaded terrace for tea, and intimate landscapes and views inspired by English and Italian gardens.
  • Issac – Gardens of the Château de Montréal. The château was built in 1535, in the Renaissance style, on the site of a fortress dating to the 13th and 14th centuries. The gardens were built upon the ramparts of the fortress at the beginning of the 20th century by Achille Duchêne. The lower garden is in the Italian style, and features hibiscus and yew trees, and walls covered with white roses and white clematis. The upper garden is a jardin à la française, with ornamental flower beds and a topiary garden. The garden was badly damaged by a storm in 1999, and has been replanted.(see pictures)
  • Urval – Gardens of la Bourlie. Originating as the gardens of the château of a noble family of Périgord in the 14th century, the original 17th-century gardens featured a kitchen garden and an early French ornamental garden surrounded by a wall. Later, in the 18th century, a grand axis between the village and the woods was created, along with an alley of linden trees, and a topiary allée of yew trees. In the 19th century a French landscape garden was added, with coniferous trees and varied plants. The château also has fine collection of old roses and fruit trees.

Gironde

Château de Malle gardens

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Landes

  • Dax – Park of Sarrat. The park, formerly the home and garden of architect René Guichemerre, was created by him from the 1950s until his death in 1988. It contains his modern house, inspired by the architects Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright; an impressive alley of plane trees; a French garden with fountain and cascade; an extensive kitchen garden; and a botanical garden with 320 kinds of trees, many of them rare.

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Lot-et-Garonne

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Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Villa Arnaga gardens

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  • Momas – Garden of the Château de Momas. The château is surrounded by gardens inspired by medieval gardens; with sculptures, fountains, a kitchen garden and an aromatic garden; old varieties of fruits and vegetables, and two-hundred-year-old oak and fig trees. (see photos)
  • Viven – Gardens of the Château de Viven. The château was first mentioned in the 11th century; it was completely rebuilt in the 18th century. The gardens were redesigned after the original plan in 1988. The French garden features a colorful mosaic of 2,500 begonias, and more than a thousand roses, adorned with hedges and topiary gardens, a fountain and a pavilion. There are annual displays of camellias, azaleas, rhododendrons, hydrangeas, and bougainvilleas.

(see pictures)

Gardens of the
Auvergne

Allier

  • dogwoods. In the fall the garden is noted for its irises, old varieties of roses, and hydrangeas
    .

(see photos)

Puy-de-Dôme

Château de Cordès Puy-de-Dôme

lupins and dahlias
. The gardens were badly damaged in the storm of December 1999, when 500 to 700 trees were uprooted or broken. The gardens are being restored. (see photos)

  • The
    garden à la française
    at an altitude of nine hundred meters in the Massif of Mont-Doré.
  • Auvergne. It was rebuilt in the 17th century by Antoine de Ribeyre, treasurer to the King. The garden dates to 1617. The garden has two parts; a classical garden in the French style, with a circular basin, fountain, and lawns and tree-shaded alleys; and a lower Renaissance garden with fruit trees, flower beds and vegetable gardens laid out in geometric designs. The two parts of the garden are connected by an unusual stone stairway with two revolutions. The fountain with two basins dates to 1617, and is attributed to Androuet du Cerceau
    .

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Gardens of
Burgundy

Côte d'Or

  • orangerie
    , with vegetable gardens and an orchard.

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  • Athie – The Mill of Athie. The mill was built in the 16th century and continued to operate until the early 20th century, when it was converted into a cheese-dairy. The garden was created in the late 1970s. It contains a large variety of trees, including chestnuts, maples, and sequoias; four hundred fifty varieties of roses, including three hundred old varieties; one hundred kinds of peonies; a gloriette; a pond of water lilies; and topiary shrubs.

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Château de Barbirey gardens

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Garden of the Château de Talmay

Nièvre

A pastoral garden created in the mid-19th century, around a small château and a hamlet of farm buildings. The garden features many trees planted in 1850, including a double alley of

rhododendrons, and a carpet of heather. (See photos)

An English landscape park, a classic French garden, and a modern garden of fountains and basins are placed between a medieval château and a busy canal. The garden has an

orangerie with rows of fruit trees and hedges beside the canal; a traditional kitchen garden; and boxwood hedges sculpted into shapes like flocks of sheep. (see photos)

A site of an old iron

plane tree
.

  • Limanton – Garden of the Château de Limanton.

The original gardens had been completely abandoned, and were recreated beginning in 1994 following the inspiration of the 17th-century and 18th-century gardens of the school of Le Nôtre. The garden is laid out in three terraces; the first terrace contains two lawns with sculpted yew trees at the angles; the second has a secret garden, with boxwood hedges, old roses, and a palisaded fig tree; and the third is divided into flower beds and lawns separated by palisades and rows of fruit trees.

Saône-et-Loire

A private garden of one hectare in the English and contemporary styles, created beginning in 2000 by a couple passionate about gardening, which takes perfect advantage of its hilly site. The wooded portions contain twenty varieties of maple, 10 varieties of birch, and oak, conifers, beech, and hornbeam. Bushes and flowers include hydrangeas, dogwood, dahlias and three hundred varieties of roses. (see photos)

Château de Drée
  • Curbigny – Gardens of the Château de Drée.

The château was built in the 17th century, rebuilt in the 19th century, then restored in the 20th century to the way it looked in the 18th century. The gardens, in the French style, feature squares of white and pink roses and lavender; large terraces of flower beds; a fountain with statues by Jean de Bologne from the fountain of Neptune in Florence; a long perspective; a folly called "The Tower of the Demoiselles"; and an elliptical rose garden, with over 1300 rosebushes in pastel colors around a basin.

  • Oyé – Gardens of the Château de Chaumont

The present château and gardens in the French style were created in the 18th century, and restored in the 20th century. Parts of château date to the 16th century. The principal feature of the garden is a grand avenue from the gate to the château lined by yew trees shaped into cones, alternating with statues and vases. There are two secondary avenues of double rows of linden trees. The gardens also feature a large rectangle of chestnut trees providing shade, and avenues of hornbeam hedges 350 metres long on the west and south.

Potager at Château de Digoine
  • Palinges – Gardens of the Château de Digoine

The 18th-century château is set in a French garden and a 35-hectare English landscape park, designed by the architect

palm trees and orange trees carved into the shape of half-domes and colombiers, copying the shape of the domes of the château. The English landscape park has four km of avenues, a variety of forest trees and exotic ornamental trees, a lake, a river and a grotto. The flower garden next to the greenhouse was redesigned in the 1920s by landscape architect Achille Duchêne, and the kitchen garden occupies the place of the former cemetery of the convent of the Brothers of Picpus
, from the 18th century.

  • Sully -Park and Kitchen Gardens of the Château de Sully.

The château and gardens date to the 18th and 19th centuries, and combine elements of an English park forested avenues and

giant sequoias
, with a classical 18th-century French garden (a kitchen garden, fruit trees, a grand avenue leading to the house, an ornamental forecourt and flower beds.)

A contemporary botanical garden with five themes; an ethnobotanic garden, with historical plants useful to mankind; the Garden of

lotus and papyrus of the Nile
.

Yonne

The park was originally the domaine of the

Louis Napoléon Bonaparte
in 1852. He re-created the garden as it is today, with canals, a stream and cascade, hedges, roses, plane trees, fruit trees and flower beds.

(see pictures)

Gardens of Brittany

Côtes-d'Armor

Garden of the Château de la Roche-Jagu, Côtes d'Armor

A contemporary garden, inspired by medieval gardens, overlooking the estuary of the Trieux River. The centerpiece is a great oak, 350 years old, in the courtyard of the château. The garden features a medieval kitchen garden; a medicinal garden, a medieval flower garden; an avenue of

pergolas with honeysuckle
. (see photos)

A romantic English garden and botanical garden, created in 1965. It includes basins, cascades and a water staircase; Italian terraces; and a fine collection of magnolias, camellias, rhododendrons, and plants of Australia, New Zealand and the Mediterranean.(see photos)

Finistère

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  • Quimper – Garden of the Château de Lanniron. The Château de Lanniron was the former palace of the bishop of Quimper. The gardens were created in the 17th century by Monseigneur de Coëtlogon between 1668 and 1670. They lie next to the River Odet, and retain their original 17th-century layout- three terraces, including one for flowers and one for vegetables, descending to the river; several basins, fountains and a canal. The gardens now include an arboretum, with an exceptional assortment of trees, including a Magnolia grandiflora, Ginkgo biloba, Cryptomeria japonica and a giant sequoia. (see photos)
  • subtropical and exotic plants, and contains over three thousand different plants from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia, including many rare and endangered plants. The trees include one hundred eucalyptus
    from Australia.

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Château de Trevarez
  • RAF
    in 1944, and the holes in the roof were not restored until the 1990s.

The château is best known for its flower gardens, on the esplanade by the château and the stables. It also has an English-style park, fountains, sculpture and a cascade, all recently restored. (see photos)

Ille-et-Vilaine

  • hortensias, and rhododendrons. The park is known for the chestnut tree of Duchess Anne of Brittany, the last Duchess of the region, who used to sit under the tree. The tree was uprooted by a storm in 1987. (see photos)
Garden of the Château de la Ballue
  • garden à la française on the south terrace, which was later demolished and made into a potato field. The garden today features an alley of wisterias supported by yew trees, and a picturesque winding labyrinth
    .

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Botanical garden of Upper Brittany
  • Le Châtellier – The Gardens of Haute-Bretagne, Botanical garden of Upper Brittany. The Manor of Foltière, which stood in the gardens, was the headquarters of an uprising against the government of the French Republic in 1796 led by the comte de Puisaye. In 1847, the land surrounding the pond in the park was redesigned as an English romantic landscape garden, with winding paths that followed the terrain, and a perspective from the lawn in front of the manor to the church tower of the village.

The botanical park is made up of 24 gardens and three parts : the Arcadia' gardens that refer to classical antiquity and recall the youth, the romantic gardens represent maturity and plenitude, the twilight' gardens offer a timeless composition which represents the old age. The gardens have over seven thousand varieties of plants, particularly those that grow well in an acid soil, including

azaleas
flower in April. (see photos) |Parc Botanique de Haute-Bretagne

  • Rance River. In 1885, the lower two terraces were turned into romantic gardens with many exotic plants, including palms and a 250-year-old magnolia. The garden was badly damaged by a storm in 1987, but has been restored. (see photos)

Morbihan

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  • Lorient – Park Victor Chevassu. This English-style and botanical garden is on the site of former quarry and the early 20th-century estate of Lorient businessman Victor Chevassu. It was bought by the city of Lorient in 1973 for development, but after protests it was turned into a park and the old house and garden restored. Today it features a stream which flows into two ponds; a collection of exotic tropical ferns and giant bamboo; collections of camellias and rhododendrons; an animal park for children; large old oak trees; and colorful seasonal flowers in spring and summer. (see pictures)

Gardens of the Centre-Val de Loire

Cher

Gardens of the Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil
  • Ainay-le-Vieil – Gardens of the Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil. The gardens feature a large collection of roses, a one-hectare island garden, a meditation garden, and a topiary garden of trees and shrubs carved into ornamental shapes.
  • Apremont-sur-Allier – Flower gardens of Apremont.
  • Bourges – Garden of Prés Fichaux.
  • Chassy – Gardens of the Château de Villiers. The château dates to the 17th and 18th centuries, and originally had a formal French floral garden laid out in parterres. The château and gardens were abandoned after the French Revolution, and restored beginning in 1985. Features include the floral gardens, roses, and a lake with wild herons.
  • Maisonnais – Gardens of the Priory of Notre-Dame-d'Orsan. The Priory was built in the 12th century, and rebuilt in the 16th and 17th centuries, then abandoned after the French Revolution. It was bought by two architects in 1992, who recreated the gardens in a modern form following the inspiration of medieval monasteries. It features a labyrinth of fruit trees, a pergola, and a cloister garden with a fountain symbolizing the source of the four rivers of Paradise.
  • hemerocallis
    (day-lilies).

Eure-et-Loir

Indre

The Château de Bouges
  • Dorothée de Courlande
    (1793–1862), a wealthy heiress who had been Talleyrand's mistress. and married Talleyrand's nephew. In 1917, the château was purchased by the industrialist Henry Viguier and his wife, Renée Normant, who restored it, decorated and refurnished it. The Viguiers, who had no children, left the house and its furniture to the French State.

The château has a park of eighty hectares, which include a landscape garden, an arboretum, large greenhouses, and a formal French garden. The château and the park were used as sets for scenes of the film Colonel Chabert with Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant(see photos)

  • aromatic plants
    ; a garden of cedar trees; and a garden of climbing roses.

Indre-et-Loire

Aerial view of Château de Chenonceau and its gardens
Château du Rivau
Château de Villandry gardens

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  • La Riche – The Gardens of the Priory of Saint-Cosme.
  • Lémeré – The Gardens of the Château du Rivau surround a restored white stone castle built from the 13th century to the 15th century. They are composed of twelve different gardens, and feature a 16th-century fountain, modern sculpture, and a maze. Six thousand irises are in bloom in May, four hundred types of roses in June, and poppies and other flowers cover the fields around the château in summer.(see photos of the Gardens of Chateau Le Rivau)
  • Tours – The Prébendes d'Oë is a municipal landscape park and arboretum in the city of Tours. It was created by the Bühler brothers in 1874. It features a group of bald cypresses, statues, and a bandstand.
  • Villandry – The gardens of the Château de Villandry. One of the grandest and most-visited of French gardens. The château was built in 1536 by Jean Le Breton, Minister of Finance of Francis I of France. It was modified in the 18th century, then purchased in 1906 by Joachim Carvallo. He and his descendants devoted their attention lavishly to the gardens over the last century. The gardens are laid out on three terraces, and feature a water garden, an ornamental vegetable garden, and several salons of ornamental plants, as well as a maze and a forest. Nine gardeners work full-time on the 1,200 linden trees, nine hectares of garden, and fiFty-two kilometers of hedges.

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Loir-et-Cher

  • Blois – Rose gardens and terraces of the bishop's residence.
Kitchen garden at Talcy
  • Cellettes – Garden of the Château de Beauregard. The Renaissance château features a Gallery of the Illustrious, 327 portraits of important personalities over three centuries. The contemporary garden, created by landscape architect Gilles Clément, is inspired by the gallery, and presents the colors, plant varieties and symbols of three centuries of gardens, in twelve different chambers of the garden.
  • Sasnières – Garden of Plessis Sasnières. A private botanical and English garden in a small valley, around a pond. The flower gardens are organized on the theme of colors. Other features include, basins full of trout, Japanese primroses, and colorful bushes in bloom in the spring.
  • Talcy – The Château de Talcy. Talcy is not a large château, but a Renaissance country house of the style typical to the Loire Valley. The garden is a recreation of an 18th-century fruit orchard, largely of pear and apple trees, including many old varieties, with the trees cultivated in a variety of ornamental shapes and forms.

Loiret

  • Ingrannes – Arboretum des Grandes Bruyères. A contemporary arboretum of 12 hectares created within the forest of Orléans in 1968, inspired by the work of British landscape architect Gertrude Jekyll. The park features a topiary garden and a classic garden à la française; tunnels covered with rose and clematis; and 4500 plants from the temperate zones of Europe, North America and Asia.
  • La Bussière – Garden of the Château de la Bussière. The garden adjoins a brick château built in the 17th century. The park was originally designed by André Le Nôtre, and restored in about 1911 by the landscape architect Édouard André. The park features a recreation of an 18th-century kitchen garden, enclosed by walls, with old varieties of vegetables and fruits; and a large French landscape garden, with a promenade beside a lake, and groves of old cedars, oaks, lindens trees and pourpres.
Fountains of the Parc Floral de la Source
  • Loire River between Orléans and Blois. It is composed of small islands connected by wooden bridges, featuring trees, bushes, flowers, and aquatic and semi-aquatic plants from Europe, China and Japan. See Photos
  • Nogent-sur-Vernisson – The Arboretum National des Barres. Formerly, the domain of the seed growers, the de Vilmorin family, the Arboretum has 35 hectares containing 2700 species of trees, bushes and plants, including a 46-meter high giant sequoia and 70 varieties of oak and other venerable trees.
  • Orléans – Parc Floral de la Source at Orléans-la-Source. Source of the Loiret. Created as the site of the Floralies internationales d'Orléans in 1967 and the most visited attraction in the Loiret département
  • Triguères – Gardens of the Manor of Grand Courtoiseau. Six hectares of French, Italian and exotic gardens surround the 17th-century manor of Grand Courtoiseau. Features include old varieties of roses, a topiary garden, and an avenue of three-century-old linden trees. See photos

Gardens of Champagne-Ardenne

Aube

Garden of the Château de Barbery

Marne

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  • Sézanne – Entre Cour et Jardin. A private garden surrounding an 18th-century residence in the vineyards of Champagne which once belonged to the Marquise de la Forge. The garden in the French classic style features sculpted hedges and bushes, fountains, and a colorful variety of seasonal flowers.

(see Photos)

Haute-Marne

  • Thonnance-lès-Joinville (Haute-Marne) – Les Jardins de mon Moulin. Located next to an old mill, this one-hectare garden features a rose garden with 500 rosebushes; a water garden; a garden of white flowers; and a recreation of a medieval garden.

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Gardens of Franche-Comté

Jura

The Château d'Arlay
  • House of Orange
    . An avenue of linden trees leads to a hill where the ruins of the château overlook the vineyards. In 1996, the Garden of Games was created beside the château, with a bowling green, cascades of plants and flower gardens illustrating the theme of amusement.
  • Dole – Le Jardin à la Faulx. A contemporary private garden of one hectare, begun in 1983, devoted to the harmony of textures, colors, and compositions of both native and rare flowers, trees and bushes.

(see pictures)

Haute-Saône

  • Battrans – Parc de l'Étang. A private arboretum of three hectares beside a pond, with 350 varieties of trees, bushes and flowers, created beginning in 1972.

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Territoire-de-Belfort

  • Anjoutey – Roseraie du Châtelet. A private contemporary arboretum begun in 1990, located in an old glacial valley, featuring six hundred varieties of roses and a water garden with sixty-five types of bamboo.

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Gardens of the Île-de-France

Garden of the Palais-Royal, Paris

Paris

  • Paris – The Garden of the
    Louis XIV and his brother, then of the Orléans family, until the French Revolution, when it was confiscated in 1793. The garden was created in 1731 by the architect Victor Louis and renovated in 1992 by landscape architect Mark Rudkin, who added new promenades and spaces for contemplation. The courtyard of columns designed by Daniel Buren was installed in 1986. (see photos)
  • Coulée verte René-Dumont – This linear park is a 4.7 km (2.9 mile) green belt created on top of 19th century railroad infrastructure. Beginning just east of the Opera Bastille, it rests on top of a brick viaduc that rises 10 meters above street level. The promeneur encounters reflecting pools, statuary, pedestrian bridges and densely planted parcels of perennials. This project was one of the first in the world (if not the first) to re-purpose an elevated railway line as an urban garden. The re-purposing was initiated under President François Mitterrand as part of a broader plan to enhance neighbourhoods in the east of Paris. It was inaugurated in 1993.
  • Tuileries Garden –This is a public garden located between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Created by Catherine de' Medici as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was opened to the public in 1667 and became a public park after the French Revolution. In the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, Parisians have used it to celebrate, meet up, stroll and relax.

Seine-et-Marne

Château de Champs-sur-Marne gardens
Château de Fontainebleau

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Garden of Vaux-le-Vicomte today
  • Louis XIV of France
    . The distance from the gate to the statue of Hercules is 1500 meters, and the carefully ordered perspective from the castle is three kilometers long. The magnificence of the gardens and their opening festivities inspired the envy and anger of Louis XIV, who fifteen days later had Fouquet arrested and imprisoned for the rest of his life.

(see photos)

Yvelines

Park of the Château de Breteuil
  • Choisel – Park of the Château de Breteuil. A private park and garden of 75 hectares, surrounding the château. The French garden was begun in the 17th century, an English park added in the 18th century, and the French garden was redesigned in 1895 by the owner, Henri de Breteuil, and the landscape architect Achille Duchêne. Major features, including a labyrinth, were added since 1990 by the current owners, Henri-François and Séverine de Breteuil.

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Aerial view of the Gardens of Versailles

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  • Thoiry -The Château de Thoiry (450 hectares) and its gardens are privately owned by Annabelle and Paul de la Panouse. They were originally created in the 16th century by alchemist Raoul Moreau. The gardens were built as a setting for the château, designed by Philibert de l'Orme, They were redone 150 years later by landscape architect Claude Desgot, the nephew of André Le Nôtre, who included optical illusions in the perspectives of the long axes, making distances seem greater. In the 19th century, an English landscape garden was added, including 51 giant sequoias planted in 1852, which obscured many of the original perspectives. Masses of rhododendron and azalea bushes were also added for color. In the 1970s, the owners restored the original axes of the park, and added modern features, including a new labyrinth by Adrian Fisher; an autumn garden by Timothy Vaughn; and a floral border by Alain Richert.

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  • Montfort L'Amaury. Gardens of the Château de Groussay. A contemporary garden, created between 1950 and 1970 by the French esthete Carlos de Beistegui (who owned the property since 1939). The garden was inspired by Anglo-Chinese gardens of the 18th century, and by the gardens of Swedish châteaux, and is decorated with follies, including a Chinese pagoda, a Tatar tent, and a théâtre de verdure. See photos

Essonne

Château de Courances

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Hauts-de-Seine

  • Chateaubriand
    .

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Val d'Oise

Gardens of the Château d'Ambleville
  • Triumph of the Virtues
    .
  • Benedictine
    Abbesse Saint Hildegard van Bingen (1098–1179).

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  • Chaussy – Domaine of Villarceaux (70 hectares). Public French garden, English garden, botanical garden, and flower gardens. The water gardens date from the 17th century, the Louis XV château from the 18th century. The 18th-century garden has a rare vertugadin, in the shape of a woman's basket skirt of the 18th century, surrounded by eighteen statues from Italy.

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Gardens of Languedoc-Roussillon

Gard

Le Jardin de la Fontaine, Nîmes.

Hérault

Château de Margon, Hérault
  • Margon – The Park and Garden of the Château de Margon. The château dates to the 15th century, with additions made in the 16th, 17th and 18th century. The park and terraces are open to the public.
  • Montpellier – The Park and Gardens of Flaugergues. An 18th-century château and garden à la française, a 19th-century landscape park, and a botanical garden.

(photos and more information)

  • Servian – Jardin des Carrières de Saint-Adrien (Garden of the Quarries of Saint-Adrien). A modern private botanical garden located in a water-filled quarry from the Middle Ages. (pictures and description)

Gardens of Limousin

Corrèze

Arboretum of the Château de Neuvic d'Ussel

Creuse

Haute-Vienne

Gardens of
Lorraine

Jardins de Callunes, specializing in heather

Meurthe-et-Moselle

Meuse

Moselle

Vosges

Gardens of the Midi-Pyrénées

Parc aux Bambous
The Royal Garden of Toulouse

Ariège

Aveyron

Haute-Garonne

Gers

The Jardins de Coursiana

Lot

Hautes-Pyrénées

Tarn

Gardens of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Nord

Parc Arboretum du Manoir aux Loups

Pas-de-Calais

Gardens of Lower Normandy

Château de Vendeuvre

Calvados

Manche

Park Emmanuel Liais

Orne

Gardens of Upper Normandy

Eure

Garden of Claude Monet at Giverny

Seine-Maritime

Gardens of the Pays de la Loire

Jardin des plantes de Nantes

Loire-Atlantique

Maine-et-Loire

Mayenne

Sarthe

Château du Lude and gardens

Vendée

  • Thiré – Gardens of Bâtiment

Gardens of Picardy

Gardens of Valloires (Somme)

Aisne

Oise

Gardens of the Château de Chantilly.

Somme

Gardens of Poitou-Charentes

Château de La Roche-Courbon
Château de Beaulon garden

Charente

Charente-Maritime

Deux-Sèvres

Vienne

Gardens of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Jardins de Salagon

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

Hautes-Alpes

Alpes-Maritimes

The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild

Bouches-du-Rhône

Parc du Mugel, La Ciotat

Var

Edith Wharton's Garden, Castel Sainte-Claire, Hyères
Cubist garden of the Villa Noailles, Hyères

Vaucluse

A contemporary garden à la française in Provence: the Pavillon de Galon in Cucuron
Château du Touvet at Le Touvet
Parc de la Tête d'Or in Lyon
The botanical garden of Jaÿsinia in Samoëns
  • Le Pavillon de Galon. A French contemporary garden "à la française" inspired by the Provençal landscape, fronting an 18th-century hunting pavilion.
  • Garden à la française
    and kitchen garden of the 18th century.
  • Garden of the Château de Brantes in Sorgues. A contemporary garden inspired by the gardens of Tuscany, created in 1956.
  • La Louve in Bonnieux. A contemporary garden created in the 1980s by Nicole de Vésian, textile designer for the Paris fashion house of Hermès.
  • Jarditrain in Saint-Didier

Gardens of the Rhône-Alpes

Drôme

Isère

Loire

Rhône

Savoie

Haute-Savoie

Gardens of
DOM-TOM

Guadeloupe

Martinique

See also

References

  • Le Guide du Patrimoine in France, Éditions du Patrimoine, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, 2009
  • Impelluso, Lucia, Jardins, potagers et labyrinthes, Éditions Hazan, Paris, 2007.
  • Racine, Michel, Jardins en France — Guide illustré,, Actes Sud, 1999.
  • Philippe Thébaut and Christian Mailllard, Parcs et Jardins in France, (2008). Éditions Payot & Rivages, (
    ISBN 978-2-7436-1818-6
    ).

Notes and citations

  1. ^ The complete list of gardens can be found on: site of the Comité des Parcs et Jardins.
  2. ^ Michel Racine, Jardins en France, p. 42
  3. ^ "Le Domaine d'Émeraude – Parc naturel régional de la Martinique". Parc naturel régional de la Martinique (in French). Retrieved 27 November 2015.

External links

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