The spell of the heart of France: the towns, villages and châteaux about ParisHallays, André
History
The spell of the heart of France: the towns, villages and châteaux about Paris
Hallays, André
France -- Description and travel; France -- History
[Footnote 25: Page 220. The history of Madame de Monaco has been pleasingly
told by Marquis Pierre de Ségur, in a study which forms the second part
of the book entitled La Dernière des Condé. I have borrowed from
this work many details regarding Betz which the Marquis de Ségur has
extracted from the archives of Beauvais.]
[Footnote 26: Page 243. Musées et Monuments de France, 1906, No. 10.]
[Footnote 27: Page 244. The architect of the Temple of Friendship was called
Le Roy; this is the name which is signed to the memorandum of the sums
paid to the sculptor Dejoux for the casting of the group by Pigalle,--a
memorandum which has been published by M. Rocheblave.]
[Footnote 28: Page 249. Since these lines were written the Archaeological
Committee of Senilis has published a work on the gardens of Betz by M.
Gustav Macon. The gifted curator of the Musée Condé reproduces in this a
very complete description of the gardens of the Princess of Monaco which
must have been drawn up in the last half of 1792 or the first half of
1793. Its author is unknown. According to M. Macon, he was perhaps one
of the writers who collaborated at that time in the preparation of Le
Voyage 'pittoresque de la France' we might also think of Mérigot, who
had just described the gardens of Chantilly so attractively. To this
unpublished description M. Macon has added a series of notes in which
he has collected all the information which he has found in the works
of other historians or which he has himself discovered in regard to
the artists who collaborated in the adornment of the domain of Betz. In
short, he has exhausted the subject.]
[Footnote 29: Page 266. The transformations of Chantilly have been studied
and described by M. G. Macon Revue de l'art ancien et moderne, April,
1898.]
[Footnote 30: Page 293. I have profitably consulted Livry et son abbaye, by
Abbé A. E. Genty (1898).]
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