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Fireworks have just died away above the greatest French garden of the ancien régime. The château at Vaux-le-Vicomte, about 20 miles south-east of Paris, has been hosting a ball to mark the 40th ...
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Not all French chateaux are the same ... two water features, a vegetable garden and an orchard. Two plots of meadows are leased out and separated from the main property by a tree-lined driveway.
The small French town is also home to the magnificent but underrated Chateau de Chantilly ... (in fact they were designed by the same landscape gardener). France’s famous Chantilly Racecourse ...
The homes of the French Riviera are famously chic, and yet one century-old chateau stands out among ... as well as five guest rooms and a winter garden for good measure. Boris Berezovsky in ...
Bruno Abndank-Abakanowicz was the mathematician, engineer, and inventor responsible for constructing a Neo-Gothic castle on a French private ... can accommodate a vast garden.
The house's architecture recalls that of a French chateau. A limestone-clad mansion ... The grounds and hardscape were designed by landscape designer Jorge Sanchez and landscape architect Claudia ...