Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, terrasse et jardins du Domaine de Saint-Germain-en Laye

Claude Mollet, working under Etienne Dupeyrac, created the terraced gardens on the eastern façade of the Château Neuf for Henri IV. 
These gardens, designed by the engineer Thomas Francine in the late XVIth and the early XVIIth centureis, were at the time adorned with grottoes, fountains and water-driven automata.
On the northern façade of Chateau Vieux, the formal gardens were created to plans by Le Nôtre between 1663 and 1673. In is design, Le Nôtre brought to bear his genius for perspective. 
His Great Terrace, two km long and a true masterpiece of perspective, affords an exceptional panoramic view over the entire valley of the Seine stretching as far the edge of the forest. 
In around 1680 a formal parterre consisting of separately demarcated beds, the "Garden of the Dauphine", was laid out.
In 1846, Loiasel de Tréogate, the Crown Estate engineer, designed the landscaped garden on a forest plot given by Louis-Philippe in compensation for the construction, across Le Nôtre's parterres, of France's first railway line. These 70 ha of protected gardens, with a backdrop of 3,800 ha of forest and adjacent to the former royal château, now the National Archaeological Museum, are an intrinsic and indissoluble part of its history.

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Library, Overhead projector, PA system equipment