Probably the world's most famous garden, it was built for Louis XIV and
designed by Andre Le Notre. The laying out of the gardens required
enormous work. Vast amounts of earth had to be shifted to lay out the flower
beds, the Orangerie, the fountains and the Canal, where previously only
woods, grasslands and marshes were. The earth was transported in
wheelbarrows, the trees were conveyed by cart from all the provinces of
France and thousands of men, sometimes whole regiments, took part in
this vast enterprise.
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