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Art-history excursions

Often-unsuspected treasures an hour from Paris

•The Renaissance Museum

  Feudal ferocity, glory and demise

 

 

•Saint-Denis

Arches, kings and Reds

•Vaux-le-Vicomte

    Springboard to Versailles

 

  

•Watteau's château

The grand 18th century

 •Renaissance water garden

French landscaping begins

 

 

•Troyes

Medieval capital

•Chantilly

Continuity channels change

 

 

•Dreux

Impact of funerary art

•Giverny

Nature revisited

 

 

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Credits: Saint-Denis / Harald Wolff; Vaux-le-Vicomte / Vaux-le-Vicomte; Courances / Château de Courances: Giverny / Bill Dudley; other photos / Claude Abron