Gardener to the King by Frédéric Richaud, Barbara Bray

Gardener to the King

Frédéric Richaud, Barbara Bray

116 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

fiction historical literary informative slow-paced
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For Jean Baptiste de la Quintinie, kitchen gardener to Louis XIV, the potager at Versailles proved not only his artist's canvas but the seedbed of his revolutionary sympathies. August 1674. Louis XIV, one of Europe's most powerful sovereigns, cele...

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