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Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles

Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles

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Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies

French HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521599598
ISBN13: 9780521599597
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 25 1997
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
In Louis XIV's France, land took on new importance in politics and court life. A sequestered aristocracy promenaded in formal gardens while the military moved across the landscape, marking state boundaries with fortresses and refiguring the interior with canals and forests. Chandra Mukerji highlights the connections between the seemingly disparate activities of engineering and garden design, showing how the gardens at Versailles showcased French skills in using nature and art to design a distinctively French landscape and create a naturalized political territoriality.

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