28 octobre 2009
Potager du Roi / King's Kitchen Garden, Versailles.
Potager du Roi I n 1670, King Louis XIV appointed Jean-Baptiste La Quintinie (1624-1688) as the director of the royal fruit & vegetable garden. As per his request he constructed a vegetable garden in a swampland popularly known as "l'Etang puant / Stinky...