With the arrival of Pierre de Nolhac as director of the museum in 1892, a new era of historical research began at Versailles.
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The sculptors Jean-Baptiste Tuby, Etienne Le Hongre, Pierre Le Gros, and the brothers Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy worked on these thirty-nine fountains each of which was accompanied by a plaque on which the fable was printed, with verse written by Isaac de Benserade; from these plaques, Louis XIV’s son learned to read.
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It was as the cave of the sea nymph, Thetis, where Apollo rested after driving his chariot to light the sky.
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With Louis XIII’s final purchase of lands from Jean-François de Gondi in 1632 and his assumption of the seigneurial role of Versailles in the 1630s, formal gardens were laid out west of the château.
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