From Marie Antoinette's Garden: An Eighteenth-Century Horticultural Album - Hardcover

Élisabeth De Feydeau

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2080201425 ISBN 13: 9782080201423

Verlag: Flammarion, 2013

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.".a compilation of the plants and flowers...as if she herself recorded in an herbarium each specimen and each seed that she collected from all over the world...each revealing different glimpses into the woman who lived a charming and at the end, courageous and tragic life. "From Marie-Antioinette's Garden", you'll discover the very many plants and flowers she collected, how she enjoyed them and perhaps a bit of the woman herself. I think this intriguing volume filled with botanical plates of the very many plants that fulfilled Marie-Antoinette's passion for gardening would be one that you will come to enjoy and to explore." "A Delightsome Life

"""From Marie Antoinette's Garden", offering a fascinating look into the favorite pastime of one of history's greatest figures." " Dujour
"

.".impressively researched book...we get an idea of how the grounds were laid out, and some of the plants and flowers the Queen saw on a daily basis, thanks in part to illustrations of the herbarium.." "Flavorwire
"
"Full of historical and botanical information as well as entertaining anecdotes about the royal court, this lovely herbarium includes illustrations by renowned botanist Pierre Joseph Redoute." "France Magazine
"
.".a new historical account explores the teen queen's passion for nature." "Stylecourt.com
"
""From Marie Antoinette's Garden" takes readers on an imaginary stroll through the ever-charming, delightful and beautiful world of Marie Antoinette's gardens...a well-crafted, delightful look at one of the grandest gardens of the 18th century. I highly recommend this book for anyone with an interest in Marie Antoinette, gardens and flowers, or French history." "Vivelaqueen Blog

".".a compilation of the plants and flowers...as if she herself recorded in an herbarium each specimen and each seed that she collected from all over the world...each revealing different glimpses into the woman who lived a charming and at the end, courageous and tragic life. "From Marie-Antoinette's Garden", you'll discover the very many plants and flowers she collected, how she enjoyed them and perhaps a bit of the woman herself. I think this intriguing volume filled with botanical plates of the very many plants that fulfilled Marie-Antoinette's passion for gardening would be one that you will come to enjoy and to explore." "A Delightsome Life

"""From Marie Antoinette's Garden", offering a fascinating look into the favorite pastime of one of history's greatest figures." " Dujour"

"Charming archival illustrations of those and other favorites, from carnations to bell heathers, decorate Elisabeth de Feydeau s "From Marie Antoinette s Garden, "a detailed horticultural tour of the queen s cherished retreat. While some blooms there served a practical purpose for a royal headache, try lavender many more were imported at exorbitant costs, which did little to help the queen s image problem. Modern gardeners need not worry about cultivating quite so much controversy." "Vogue.com"
..impressively researched book we get an idea of how the grounds were laid out, and some of the plants and flowers the Queen saw on a daily basis, thanks in part to illustrations of the herbarium.. "Flavorwire
"
Full of historical and botanical information as well as entertaining anecdotes about the royal court, this lovely herbarium includes illustrations by renowned botanist Pierre Joseph Redoute. "France Magazine
"
..a new historical account explores the teen queen s passion for nature. "Stylecourt.com
"
"From Marie Antoinette s Garden" takes readers on an imaginary stroll through the ever-charming, delightful and beautiful world of Marie Antoinette s gardens a well-crafted, delightful look at one of the grandest gardens of the 18th century. I highly recommend this book for anyone with an interest in Marie Antoinette, gardens and flowers, or French history. "Vivelaqueen Blog
" ..a compilation of the plants and flowers as if she herself recorded in an herbarium each specimen and each seed that she collected from all over the world each revealing different glimpses into the woman who lived a charming and at the end, courageous and tragic life. "From Marie-Antoinette s Garden," you ll discover the very many plants and flowers she collected, how she enjoyed them and perhaps a bit of the woman herself. I think this intriguing volume filled with botanical plates of the very many plants that fulfilled Marie-Antoinette s passion for gardening would be one that you will come to enjoy and to explore. "A Delightsome Life
" "From Marie Antoinette s Garden," offering a fascinating look into the favorite pastime of one of history s greatest figures. " Dujour""

"Charming archival illustrations of those and other favorites, from carnations to bell heathers, decorate Elisabeth de Feydeau's From Marie Antoinette's Garden, a detailed horticultural tour of the queen's cherished retreat. While some blooms there served a practical purpose--for a royal headache, try lavender--many more were imported at exorbitant costs, which did little to help the queen's image problem. Modern gardeners need not worry about cultivating quite so much controversy." Vogue.com
.."impressively researched book...we get an idea of how the grounds were laid out, and some of the plants and flowers the Queen saw on a daily basis, thanks in part to illustrations of the herbarium.." Flavorwire

"Full of historical and botanical information as well as entertaining anecdotes about the royal court, this lovely herbarium includes illustrations by renowned botanist Pierre Joseph Redoute." France Magazine

.."a new historical account explores the teen queen's passion for nature." Stylecourt.com

"From Marie Antoinette's Garden takes readers on an imaginary stroll through the ever-charming, delightful and beautiful world of Marie Antoinette's gardens...a well-crafted, delightful look at one of the grandest gardens of the 18th century. I highly recommend this book for anyone with an interest in Marie Antoinette, gardens and flowers, or French history." Vivelaqueen Blog
.."a compilation of the plants and flowers...as if she herself recorded in an herbarium each specimen and each seed that she collected from all over the world...each revealing different glimpses into the woman who lived a charming and at the end, courageous and tragic life. From Marie-Antoinette's Garden, you'll discover the very many plants and flowers she collected, how she enjoyed them and perhaps a bit of the woman herself. I think this intriguing volume filled with botanical plates of the very many plants that fulfilled Marie-Antoinette's passion for gardening would be one that you will come to enjoy and to explore." A Delightsome Life
"From Marie Antoinette's Garden, offering a fascinating look into the favorite pastime of one of history's greatest figures." Dujour

Reseña del editor:

Plants, flowers, and trees were Marie-Antoinette’s passion; she transformed the Petit Trianon’s gardens into an enchanted escape from the oppressive shackles of Versailles. Based on archival documents, this book includes descriptions of the cosmetic and medicinal uses of the garden’s plants, anecdotes from the royal court, and watercolors of the herbarium that capture the ambiance of Marie-Antoinette’s reign. The queen’s beloved tuberose, imported from Mexico, was used to ease anxiety but was also considered to have such potent powers in awakening erotic desire that young women were forbidden to walk in tuberose fields at night. Grape leaves were used in a concoction for lightening skin in the fashion of the day, but we also learn that it was thought that a woman’s presence in a wine cellar could spoil the drink. This fascinating reconstruction meanders through Marie-Antoinette’s estate, as the queen herself would have walked it: traversing hyacinths, buttercups, and anemones in the French Gardens, via winding paths in the Anglo-Chinese Gardens, through the conifers of the Belvedere Gardens―where fabulous nocturnal parties were hosted―past the entrancing aromas of the shrubs surrounding the Temple of Love, to the wildflowers of the Garden of Solitude.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Flammarion
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 2080201425
• ISBN 13: 9782080201423
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Herausgeber: Alain Baraton