Adam Giese and Andy Scerbo filming in the dining room.
hundred meters long. The river Ecole meanders along
one side, fuelling the enterprise. These waters were
bottled for the king of France when he resided at Fontainebleau. Grass all��es are interspersed among them
and wide paths follow their length. Majestic trees of various species form sentinel banks. Although the garden
is attributed by some to the masterful hand of Le Notre,
Courances is a water landscape, not a garden of fountains, as is Versailles, his masterwork. Courances most
probably inspired his work there. Superlative plantation,
cleverly placed, create ingenious perspectival devices.
Credit for the chateau���s survival must be given to Baron
Samuel de Haber who, finding it in near ruin, restored it
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