ITR4729648: Parc d'Ermenonville “” Jean-Jacques Rousseau”, Oise, Picardie, France. From 1765 onwards, the Marquis Rene de Girardin created a park adorned with factories. Inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his vision of nature and with a moral intention, the Marquis surround himself with the advice of landscape architect Jean-Marie Morel, painter Hubert Robert, who later drew Mereville, Abbe Delille and Scottish gardeners. The park is treated in an English garden and the factories use both romantic style and maconic symbols. The ensemble stretched to the north and south of the castle over a hundred hectares and had about fifty factories of varying importance. / Bridgeman Images
ITR4729800: The desert of Retz to Chambourcy (Parc et jardin de Chambourcy) Desert de Retz, les Yvelines, Ile de France (Ile-de-France), France. The Desert de Retz, created between 1774 and 1789 by Monsieur de Monville, with pavilions of manure or factories of rare species to achieve the absolute of grace of that period. / Bridgeman Images
ITR4729859: The desert of Retz to Chambourcy (Parc et jardin de Chambourcy) Desert de Retz, les Yvelines, Ile de France (Ile-de-France), France. The Desert de Retz, created between 1774 and 1789 by Monsieur de Monville, with pavilions of manure or factories of rare species to achieve the absolute of grace of that period. / Bridgeman Images
ITR4729876: The desert of Retz to Chambourcy (Parc et jardin de Chambourcy) Desert de Retz, les Yvelines, Ile de France (Ile-de-France), France. The Desert de Retz, created between 1774 and 1789 by Monsieur de Monville, with pavilions of manure or factories of rare species to achieve the absolute of grace of that period. / Bridgeman Images
ITR4730733: Parc de Saint-Cloud (Saint Cloud), Hauts de Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), Ile de France. Architecture by Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Antoine Le Pautre, 17th century. The castle of Saint-Cloud was burned in 1870 during the Prussian offensive. The ruins were razed in 1891. Apart from the common areas, there are still the Grande Cascade, the Grand Jet, the Basin du Fer a Horseback and other basins. The gardens would have been designed by Andre Le Notre / Bridgeman Images
LBY4724797: The Great Wall of China is close to Pekin. Construction of the Great Wall began in the 9th and 8th century BC, and continued for more than 2,000 years. If all its constructions and trunks spread across the vast region of North and Central China were combined, the Great Wall would extend over 50,000 km (100,000 li). Indeed, historical records show that since the Fighting Kingdoms, more than 20 feodal states and imperial dynasties have begun building defense walls. Photography 25/10/07 / Bridgeman Images
LBY4724899: The Great Wall of China is close to Pekin. Construction of the Great Wall began in the 9th and 8th century BC, and continued for more than 2,000 years. If all its constructions and trunks spread across the vast region of North and Central China were combined, the Great Wall would extend over 50,000 km (100,000 li). Indeed, historical records show that since the Fighting Kingdoms, more than 20 feodal states and imperial dynasties have begun building defense walls. Photography 25/10/07 / Bridgeman Images
TEC4728130: The desert of Retz to Chambourcy (Parc et jardin de Chambourcy) Desert de Retz, les Yvelines, Ile de France (Ile-de-France), France. The Desert de Retz, created between 1774 and 1789 by Monsieur de Monville, with pavilions of manure or factories of rare species to achieve the absolute of grace of that period. / Bridgeman Images
LBY4725452: The Great Wall of China is close to Pekin. Construction of the Great Wall began in the 9th and 8th century BC, and continued for more than 2,000 years. If all its constructions and trunks spread across the vast region of North and Central China were combined, the Great Wall would extend over 50,000 km (100,000 li). Indeed, historical records show that since the Fighting Kingdoms, more than 20 feodal states and imperial dynasties have begun building defense walls. Photography 25/10/07 / Bridgeman Images
ITR4729620: Parc d'Ermenonville “” Jean-Jacques Rousseau”, Oise, Picardie, France. From 1765 onwards, the Marquis Rene de Girardin created a park adorned with factories. Inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his vision of nature and with a moral intention, the Marquis surround himself with the advice of landscape architect Jean-Marie Morel, painter Hubert Robert, who later drew Mereville, Abbe Delille and Scottish gardeners. The park is treated in an English garden and the factories use both romantic style and maconic symbols. The ensemble stretched to the north and south of the castle over a hundred hectares and had about fifty factories of varying importance. / Bridgeman Images
ITR4729807: The desert of Retz to Chambourcy (Parc et jardin de Chambourcy) Desert de Retz, les Yvelines, Ile de France (Ile-de-France), France. The Desert de Retz, created between 1774 and 1789 by Monsieur de Monville, with pavilions of manure or factories of rare species to achieve the absolute of grace of that period. / Bridgeman Images
ITR4729970: Chateau de Dampierre, the desert of Retz to Chambourcy (Parc et jardin de Chambourcy) Desert de Retz, les Yvelines, Ile de France (Ile-de-France), France. Architecture by Andre Le Notre (1613-1700). The Desert de Retz, created between 1774 and 1789 by Monsieur de Monville, with pavilions of manure or factories of rare species to achieve the absolute of grace of that period. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4727179: The Musee Carnavalet, 23 rue de Sevigne, Paris 75003. Architect: Nicolas Dupuis in 1548-1560 and rehabilitated in 1660 by Francois Mansart. Dedicated to the history of Paris, this grand museum has occupied two adjoining hotels since 1991: Hotel Carnavalet, one of the most beautiful hotels of the Parisian Renaissance and Hotel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, built in the 18th century. In 1660, Francois Mansart was commissioned to expand and modernize it. In the foreground is the Victory Court with French gardens. Photograph 1992. / Bridgeman Images
ITR4730393: Parc et Chateau d'Ambleville, 1 rue de la Mairie, Val d'Oise, Ile de France (Ile-De-France), France. Italian gardens from the beginning of the 20th century inspired by Villa Gamberaia in Fiesole. The castle dates back to the 14th and even the 15th century completely redressed in the Renaissance. In the second half of the 18th century, the building was double at the rear on part of its length / Bridgeman Images