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Inside Europe: Renaissance for French intellectual gardens

John Laurenson
May 19, 2017

Restoration work has been completed on the geometrical gardens attached to the magnificent Chateau of Chambord in France's Loire Valley. They were the pride of the castle three centuries ago. Pioneered during the reign of the so-called Sun King, Louis the 14th, these extraordinarily formal and intellectual gardens are undergoing a revival in the country of their birth. John Laurenson has more.

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