| France is famous for its romantic cast
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| | provide an arranged view. The cast stone
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| stone fountains, but it's also rich in
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| | fountain usually was set in the center as
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| gardens that reflect its cultural taste,
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| | the focal point of where it all came
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| as those tastes have been from the Middle
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| | together. Trees were grouped in neat
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| Ages to the present. What better way to
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| | plantations or in bold lines along
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| breathe in the essence of the French than
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| | avenues, with terraces and statuary
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| to wander outdoors in designed spaces
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| | carefully placed to emphasize the
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| where you can smell and touch the living
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| | architectural symmetry of the grand
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| displays, sit by a refreshing cast stone
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| | manner. The widespread adoption of this
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| fountain and move freely and absorb at
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| | style among the European nobility and
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| your own pace?
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| | gentry reflected the potency of French
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| French gardens, particularly the French
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| | cultural influence at the time. It was
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| formal garden can engage all five senses.
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| | also related, on a practical basis, to
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| In the 16th Century, French courtiers
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| | the limited availability of planting
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| built their chateau gardens along the
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| | materials, especially those offering
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| Loire Valley fertile riverbanks. The
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| | autumn and winter display.
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| homes were essentially small turreted
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| | The change to a more natural style of
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| castles that reeked of charm. Many of
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| | gardening came about when, in the latter
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| these same chateaux and their formal
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| | part of the 18th century, the opinion
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| French gardens with cast stone fountains
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| | arose among leading gardeners,
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| are open to the public today so that the
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| | particularly those of the English gentry,
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| owners may qualify for government tax
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| | that the French formal garden manner
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| breaks and grants.
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| | brought with it a certain monotony. The
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| The French Gardens and Cast Stone
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| | increasing importation of foreign plants
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| Fountains Were an Inspiration for Other
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| | also brought with it opportunities for a
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| Countries
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| | large-scale transformation.
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| Italian artists who traveled through
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| | The Allee in a French Formal Garden
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| Europe were inspired by French gardens
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| | The allee (accent is placed over the
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| and their cast stone fountains where
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| | second e) feature of the French formal
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| architecture took pride of place over
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| | garden was both a promenade and an
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| nature. Very strict geometric
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| | extension of the view. It either ended in
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| perspectives were used to show buildings
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| | a terminal feature, such as a garden
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| to their best advantage. The French
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| | temple, a cast stone fountain or extended
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| formal gardens at Versailles, designed by
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| | into apparent infinity at the horizon.
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| Andre Le Notre, were inspired by the
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| | The allee normally passed through a
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| sun-symbol chosen by King Louis XIV, the
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| | planted boscage (a small wood); in the
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| main axes corresponding to the points of
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| | 17th century the boscage was
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| the compass. Flowerbeds edged with
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| | square-trimmed at the sides and on top;
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| trimmed box hedges were planted. Garden
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| | later the sides were trained so high that
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| specialist Gabrielle van Zuylen sees the
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| | the free-branching trees within the wood
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| influence of Versailles at Blenheim
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| | were invisible. As architectural
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| Palace in England, in St. Petersburg
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| | gardening became unfashionable in the
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| (Russia), at La Granja near Segovia
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| | 18th century, the trimming of trees
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| (Spain) and in Caserta near Naples
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| | ceased, and the straight allee gave way
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| (Italy). Le Notre's radiating garden
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| | to the meandering walk past the cast
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| paths even served as inspiration for the
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| | stone fountain.
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| town plan of Washington D. C. The cast
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| | Towards the end of the 18th century, the
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| stone fountains appeared in many of these
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| | French formal garden came to be seen as
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| palaces and estates.
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| | too artificial and gave way to the
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| French Formal Gardens Represent Extreme
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| | English landscaped park style. Lovers of
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| Formality
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| | poetry and painting forsook straight
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| The most favored style for great house
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| | lines in favor of "natural" landscapes
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| gardens in Europe during much of this
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| | composed of hills, woods, ponds and
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| period derived from the influence of the
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| | waterfalls but still, the cast stone
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| French designer Andre' Le Notre, creator
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| | fountain remained. The Romantics liked
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| of the gardens at Versailles. The French
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| | their paintings to include ruins and
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| style represented an extreme of
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| | mausoleums. The garden became a theatre
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| formality, with box-edged parterres
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| | set, expressing the aspirations of
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| (elaborate and geometrical beds)
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| | 18th-century man in search of knowledge.
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| typically placed near the residence to
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