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Desert du Retz

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Desert du Retz
Desert du Retz
Desert du Retz
Desert du Retz
Desert du Retz
Desert du Retz
Desert du Retz
Desert du Retz
Desert du Retz
Desert du Retz
Desert du Retz
Desert du Retz
Desert du Retz
Desert du Retz
Desert du Retz
Desert du Retz
Phone:
+33 1 30 74 47 51

Address:
1 allee Frederic Passy, 78240 Chambourcy, France

The Désert de Retz is a garden on the edge of the forêt de Marly in the commune of Chambourcy, in north-central France. It was created at the end of the 18th century by the aristocrat François Racine de Monville on his 40-hectare estate. The architect Boullée was involved in the creation of both Monville's town houses; it is less likely he had much do with the Désert de Retz, although Monville did, for a while, engage him as assistant to the architect Francois Barbier until 1780. Monville probably designed many of the features and structures himself, or had a strong supervisory role.The garden included between 17 and 20 structures, of which ten still survive, mostly referring to classical antiquity. Those buildings included a summer house , in the form of the base of a shattered column from an imaginary gigantic temple, an ice house in the form of an Egyptian pyramid, an obelisk, a colonnaded temple dedicated to Pan, an open-air theatre, a ruined Gothic Chapel and a Chinese pavilion. This was one of a number of landscape gardens created in France at the time influenced by English examples. Its style could be described as Anglo-Chinois, or French landscape garden.
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