If the Luxembourg Gardens have always been the breeding ground for a fertile literary imagination, this is perhaps due to their patron, Queen Marie de Médicis, who conceived them as a rediscovered dream of the Italian parks of her childhood.
In this book, Dominique Jardillier recounts the eventful history of the site, its conquests of territory and amputations, the layout of the paths, flowerbeds and bosquets, the statues and the various installations (apiary, nursery...).
In Luxembourg, words and flowers have forged a close relationship, which is why we thought it would be a good idea to include, in the second part of the book, texts by writers who have lived in the intimacy of Luxembourg.
From Alphonse de Lamartine to Michel Houellebecq, literary references abound.
Literary anthology of texts by :
Théodore de Banville, Simone de Beauvoir, François Coppée, William Faulkner, Anatole France, Théophile Gautier, André Gide, Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo, Michel Houllebecq, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Milan Kundera, Alphonse de Lamartine, Stéphane Mallarmé, Gabriel Matzneff, Guy de Maupassant, Afred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, Charles Péguy, Jacques Prévert, Rainer-Maria Rilke, George Sand, Nathalie Sarraute, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emile Zola. ...
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