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Le Livre des simples

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Description: Reading the French Garden: Story and History
The courtly garden, a symbolic theater where, behind high walls, a learned aristocracy played the ideal comedy of ordering passions, is a far cry from Fiachra’s kitchen garden or Walahfrid Strabus’s herbularius. These closed spaces, thoroughly artificial in their conception, have no apparent utility: in them we do not witness one nature, recomposed in the style of literary and...
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Related print edition pages: pp.31-39
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00099.005

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