Marie-Antoinette and the Last Garden of Versailles

Marie-Antoinette has been idolized as embodying the height of eighteenth-century French style, vilified as the spark that ignited the French revolution, and romanticized as France's martyred queen. This book departs from such traditional interpretations of the notorious queen's reign and her historical impact and chooses to reflect on the humanistic aspects of her private realm, her gardens at Trianon, and her passionate curiosity for the natural world.
Marie-Antoinette's entire private domain and its story are told in beautiful photographic detail by Francois Halard and accompanied by well-researched texts by Christian Duvernois for the first time since its recent renovation.

Christian Duvernois is a member of the Friends of Versailles and has unprecedented access to the Versailles archives. He is a landscape designer based in New York. Francois Halard is a frequent photographer for American and French Vogue, World of Interiors, and House & Garden and the photographer of several books, including La Maison de Verre.