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1994

Format:	Book
Author:	Ketcham, Diana, author.
Title:	Le Désert de Retz : a late eighteenth-century French folly garden : the artful landscape of Monsieur de Monville / Diana Ketcham.
Edition:	First MIT Press edition. [Revised and expanded edition.]
Publisher, Date:	Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : MIT Press, [1994]. ©1994
Description:	4 unnumbered pages, 135 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 28
Subjects:	Monville, François Nicolas Henri Racine de, 1734-1797 -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Chambourcy. Gardens, English -- France -- Chambourcy -- History -- 18th century. Désert de Retz (Chambourcy, France) -- Pictorial works.
Other Title:	Late eighteenth-century French folly garden : the artful landscape of Monsieur de Monville Artful landscape of Monsieur de Monville
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-132) and index.
Contents:	Le Desert de Retz -- The Construction of the Desert de Retz, 1774-1789 -- Sect. 2. Models from Antiquity and Analogs in Contemporary Gardens -- Sect. 3. The Desert in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Sect. 4. The Restoration of the Desert de Retz, 1972-1993 -- Sect. 5. Plates from Le Rouge, Jardins anglo-chinois, 1785 -- Afterword / Olivier Choppin de Janvry.
LCCN:	93050749
ISBN:	0262111861 9780262111867
Other Number:	29668238
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Control Number:	56579
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Call Number:	712.60944 Ketcham

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