The Versailles example was only one of several well-known mazes which existed in or around Paris at that time. Evelyn, who spent some years in Paris, from 1643 onwards, remarks on the design and trimness of the box-hedge designs in the gardens of the Luxembourg and on the "labyrinth of cypresse" at the Tuileries, no doubt designed by Du Cerceau (Fig. 92). In another account of the Tuileries labyrinth, however, it is described as being made entirely of bent cherry trees. It was ultimately swept away by Le Nôtre to make room for enlarged parterres. There is still a labyrinth in the Jardin des Plantes, formerly the Jardin du Roi, but it is of rather feeble design. Another noted French maze was that constructed by M. Gabriel at Choisy-le-Roi (Fig. 93). One was designed for the gardens of Chantilly by Le Nôtre, but exists to-day only as an engraving on a stone in the park (Fig. 94). Madame de Sévigné, in a letter of June 1, 1689, mentions one at Les Rochers, her seat in Brittany, and we read of one at Sceaux on the occasion of a fête given to Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon in 1685. [Illustration: FIG. 92.--Labyrinth at the Tuileries. (After Du Cerceau.)] In most European countries the fashion had obtained a hold either before or during the seventeenth century, and we can usually be sure of finding a few drawings of mazes in any horticultural book of that period. [Illustration: FIGS. 97 and 98.--Mazes by G. A. Boeckler, 1664.] [Illustration: Figs. 95 and 96. Maze Designs by André Mollet, 1651.] Figs. 95 and 96 show two examples given in "Le Jardin de Plaisir," by André Mollet, the royal gardener at Stockholm, in 1651. Figs. 97 to 106 show some very ingenious designs selected from a great number which accompany the drawings of castles and great houses in Germany and elsewhere, contained in the "Architectura curiosa nova" of G. A. Boeckler, 1664. [Illustration: FIGS. 99 and 100.--Mazes by G. A. Boeckler, 1664.] [Illustration: FIGS. 101 and 102.--Mazes by G. A. Boeckler, 1664.] One of these (Fig. 105) is rather suggestive of the Saffron Walden turf maze, whilst another (Fig. 101) is reminiscent of the Rheims pavement labyrinth. At Enghien, in Belgium, the gardens of the château where the Duke of Arenburg entertained Voltaire contained a maze, as well as a "mechanical island" and various other horticultural toys. [Illustration: FIGS. 103 and 104.--Mazes by G. A. Boeckler, 1664.] In Spain, as elsewhere, the hedge maze attained great popularity. In the magnificent gardens of the Alcazar at Seville may still be seen the labyrinth laid out in the sixteenth century for the Emperor Charles V, with tiled paths and fountains, and adjoining this is a hedge maze of roughly hexagonal outline enclosed within an irregular rectangle. [Illustration: FIGS. 105 and 106.--Mazes by G. A. Boeckler, 1664.] [Illustration: Fig. 107. Maze at Gunterstein, Holland. (N. Visscher, 1719)]