André Le Nôtre
French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France (1613–1700)
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- Fame54.4
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- Architects rank#105
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FranceHe turned earth, water, and clipped hedges into political theater. André Le Nôtre built the gardens at Versailles — vast geometric stages where a king could walk among lines so perfect they declared absolute control over nature itself.
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Born 12 March 1613, Le Nôtre came up through the royal gardening tradition; his father served the Tuileries. Before Versailles, he collaborated with Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun on the park at Vaux-le-Vicomte, refining the strict symmetry and sweeping sightlines that would define the jardin à la française. Louis XIV made him principal gardener, and Le Nôtre answered with Versailles: parterres, fountains, and radial avenues that turned landscape into architecture. He also designed gardens at Chantilly, Fontainebleau, Saint-Cloud, and Saint-Germain, and at the Tuileries extended the westward…
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