André Le Nôtre and the French Garden
His grandfather was in charge of the gardens at the Palais de Tuileries. His father was a gardener for the royal family. His uncle and cousin were gardeners.
Born into an important family of gardeners, André Le Nôtre (1613–1700) is one of the best-known garden designers of all time, despite the fact that he left no legacy of writing about his gardens. All we have to understand his work are his gardens. These include most of the major public gardens of France, including Vaux-le-Vicomte, Fontainebleau, Versailles, the Tuileries, and many, many more.
Besides gardens in France, Le Nôtre provided the design for Greenwich Park and Windsor Castle in London, and the gardens of the Venaria Reale and Castle of Racconigi ...
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