French formal garden
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The French formal garden, also called the jardin à la française, is a style of "landscape" garden based on symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature. Its epitome is generally considered t
Gardens of Versailles
The Bassin d'Apollon in the Gardens of Versailles
Parterre of the Versailles Orangerie
Gardens of the Grand Trianon at the Palace of Versailles
Bosquet
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In the French formal garden, a bosquet is a formal plantation of trees in a wide variety of forms, some open at the bottom and others not. At a minimum a bosquet can be five trees of identical species
A bosquet in the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. It is shaped like a fan and therefore is called "der Fächer" in German. The gardens were designed mainly during the reign of Maria Theresa (1740 - 1780) and have been preserved together with the buildings as a remarkable Baroque ensemble, which was catalogued as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996.
The full French formal style; an alley or walk in a bosquet in the Gardens of Versailles.
Bosquet in the Promenade Saint-Antoine, Geneva
Bosquet of the Branicki Palace in Białystok, 1750s