Le Nôtre

/ lə notrə /

noun

1. Le NôtreAndré16131700MFrenchTECHNOLOGY: gardener André (ɑ̃dre). 1613–1700, French landscape gardener, who created the gardens at Versailles for Louis XIV

Example Sentences

Charles seems to have had Versailles in view when he laid it out from Le Notre's design.

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It was a seignorial garden in the first French style which preceded Le Notre; to-day it is ruins and briars.

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And the stiff parterres, terraces, and alleys of Le Notre are equally out of place in such a scene.

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This terrace, too, was the project and construction of Le Notre in 1672.

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Other artists have had the handling of this great domain since the days of Le Notre.

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