Les maîtres d'école sont des jardiniers en intelligences humaines. (Victor Hugo)
School teachers are gardeners (specialised) in human intelligence. (Victor Hugo)
- And finally, here's a French article about the restoration of the amazing fountain statues in the formal gardens (jardins à la française) of Vaux-le-Vicomte:
As a bonus, here is an excerpt from the above article linked to our related French lessons:
Cette semaine, les fontaines restaurées des Tritons et des Naïades ont reprisleurs places habituelles, dans les jardins à la française du château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, au milieu des bassins créés par Le Nôtre au XVIIe siècle. This week, the newly restored Tritons and Naiads fountains resumed their usual place, in the formal gardens of the palace of Vaux-le-Vicomte, in the middle of the basins created by Le Nôtre [re: Louis XIV's landscape gardener] in the 17th century.
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