Histoire du château / History of the castle

 

C'est Le Vau et Le Notre qui en 1664 transforment le jardin d'Henri IV, Ils créent des compartiments à broderies de buis autour d'un bassin carré dominé par un rocher. Le tout cerné de terrasses.

 

Face au canal on édifia le bassin des cascades, on pensa par un aqueduc amener l'eau de Moret-sur-Loing.

 

Ce projet demeura inachevé (comme celui de Maintenon pour Versailles), et les effets d'eau des gravures du temps restèrent des utopies.
Au Sud, le bassin de Romulus recueillit la statue du Tibre.

 

Henri IV’s garden underwent a great change in 1664. It was Le Vau and Le Notre who undertook the work. They created sections with box plantations tracing elaborate designs around a square pond dominated by a rock. This area was bordered on all sides by raised terraces.

Opposite the canal the ornamental waterfall pond was built. The water supply to feed these was planned to be brought in by an aqueduct taking water from near the town of Moret-sur-Loing.

The project was not completed (like the Maintenon project at Versailles) and the etching effects of water with time remained just pipedreams.
On the south side, the Romulus Lake was adorned with the statue of the Tiber.