Screen LibraryParks and gardens in greater Paris /
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| Main Authors: | |
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| Published: |
Axel Menges,
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| Publisher Address: | Stuttgart ; London : |
| Publication Dates: | [2012] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 191 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 25). |
| ISBN: |
9783936681512 (hardback) : 3936681511 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | SB466 |
| CLC: | TU986.656.5-64 |
| Call Number: | TU986.656.5-64/S849 |
| Contents: | Scenes from a heavily wooded history -- Vague traces of antiquity -- Palatial settings -- The Napoleon III legacy -- A world's fair souvenir -- Island promenades -- Artists' gifts to the ages -- Private benefactors' gardens : reaping the rich dividends of financial sucess and passion -- 20th- and 21st-century Parisian make-overs : from eyesore to Eden -- Pictorial section. |