A dream job: tending flowers in the scrolled, wide rows of the formal gardens at the Château de Versailles. Louis XIV's landscape architect, André Le Nôtre, originally designed the boxwood scrolled beds to be patterned with black and white marbled tiles. A generation later, however, Louis XV's daughters complained that the checkered pattern was sad and begged their father to have the tiles removed and replaced with flowers.
Vocabulary
un damier: a checkerboard
à damier: checkered
un parterre: a flower bed
un jardinier: a gardener
un boulot: a job (familiar)
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