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Trianon Gardens


Trianon Gardens
Versailles (France)
Place d'Armes 78000
Subway station : RER C : Versailles-Rive Gauche-Château de Versailles
Phone : 01 30 83 78 00
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Le Hameau de la Reine
The Queen's Hamlet

1783
"The Queen's Hamlet" is the rustic retreat that was built for Marie Antoinette. It is situated in the private section of the park of Versailles, in a secluded spot within reach of Ange-Jacques Gabriel's Petit Trianon, which Louis XV had built for Madame de Pompadour , and which his successor Louis XVI subsequently gave to his queen.


Park(s) and Garden(s) (3)





Hours :
Depends on the seasons.,


Versailles by train :
Versailles-Rive Droite (from gare Saint-Lazare)
Versailles-Chantiers (from gare Montparnasse)

Admissions :
Free

Description   
The garden surroundings of the Petit Trianon, of which the hameau de la Reine is an extension, began their transformation from formal pattern gardens to an informal "natural" garden of winding paths, curving canals and lakes in 1774, under the direction of Antoine Richard, gardener to the Queen. Richard Mique modified the landscape plan to provide vistas of lawn to west and north of the Petit Trianon, encircled by belts of trees. Beyond the lake to the north, the hameau was sited like a garden stage set, initially inspired in its grouping and vernacular building by Dutch and Flemish genre paintings, philosophically influenced by Rousseau's cult of "nature", and reflecting exactly contemporary picturesque garden principles set forth by Claude-Henri Watelet and by ideas of the philosophes, their "radical notions coopted into innocent forms of pleasure and ingenious decoration" as William Adams has pointed out.
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Trianon Gardens
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Lower Garden
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