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268: 32: 283:. The house and gardens were described in a survey made in November 1649. His work included the Orange Garden, divided into four knots with an Orange House. A richly decorated room with a tiled floor "below stairs" in the service quarters of the main house, known as the "lower Spanish room", was used by the gardeners to plant orange and pomegranate trees in boxes. 178:, which had formerly been a garden feature of interest in isolation, was for the first time arranged in significant relation to the plan of the house. Mollet's designs coordinated the elements of scythed turf—making its debut here as an essential element of garden design—with gravel paths, basins and 294:, who was so pleased with recent French developments in the art of gardens that he engaged Mollet for the queen on the spot. Mollet took on two assistants and provided himself with orange and lemon trees and 174:
engravings after his own designs, and which, with an eye to a European aristocratic clientele, he published in Swedish, French and German. In his designs the rich patterning of
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remained in Sweden for the rest of his life, and Médard Gue, one of André Mollet's original French assistants, assumed an independent role in Swedish gardening.
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later that year, and dropped from sight. In the autumn of 1646, a Swedish delegation arrived in Paris, led by Christina's favourite, the connoisseur
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in 1660, conditions for ambitious garden-building were once more propitious, and Mollet was listed as a royal gardener, gardener-in-chief for
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Sten Karling, 'The importance of André Mollet', Elisabeth B. MacDougall & Franklin Hamilton Hazlehurst,
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Mollet returned to France in 1635, but he was back in England by 1642, when he was designing gardens for
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Soon Mollet was in London, whence he received a passport to travel abroad once more in 1653. With the
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roots. Then there was a frustrating delay of a full season before the official confirmation arrived.
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and laid out a new garden in the outskirts of Stockholm on the site of a former hop-garden, the
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Mollet's stay in Sweden lasted five years, during which he introduced to Sweden the French
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Garden view, south elevation of Wimbledon Palace. 1678 Engraving by Henry Winstanley
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Enduring Roots: Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape
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Mollet's brother, the younger Claude Mollet, was passed over in favour of
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Mollet was summoned to England in the 1620s to lay out gardens for
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Mollet presumably returned to France after the outbreak of the
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textiles. He modernized the existing gardens linked to the
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Gardens of Court and Country: English Design, 1630–1730
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Mollet's French predecessors in the art of gardening:
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St James's Palace: From Leper Hospital to Royal Court
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Though Mollet left Sweden in 1653, his son 251:, and at the prince's other main residence, 226:with a request for fruit trees and flowers. 452:Rufus Bird, Simon Thurley, Michael Turner, 116:Learn how and when to remove this message 266: 131:(died before 16 June 1665) was a French 580: 534:, 'Survey of the Manor of Wimbledon', 197: 155:André Mollet became royal gardener to 504:'Survey of the Manor of Wimbledon', 150: 54:adding citations to reliable sources 25: 262: 13: 14: 604: 229:By 1633 he was in the service of 508:, 10 (London, 1792), pp. 399–448 488:Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria 231:Prince Frederick Henry of Orange 30: 588:French Baroque garden designers 568:Anne Scherman, "Erik Dahlbergh, 387:appeared in London in 1670, as 41:needs additional citations for 541: 525: 512: 493: 472: 469:(Dumbarton Oaks, 1974), p. 18. 459: 446: 1: 554: 538:, 10 (London, 1792), p. 401. 247:, set in colored gravels at 16:For the French cyclist, see 7: 404: 292:Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie 10: 609: 570:Suecia antiqua et hodierna 490:(London, 1857), pp. 19–20. 366:Suecia antiqua et hodierna 354:Nicodemus Tessin the Elder 147:was introduced to France. 15: 397:as chief gardener at the 340:royal palace in Stockholm 325: 562:The French Formal Garden 522:(Yale, 2017), pp. 82–83. 482:(Rutgers, 1999), p. 49: 467:The French Formal Garden 456:(Yale, 2022), pp. 47–48. 439: 383:. 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