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| | History of Renaissance garden in France |
 | | Charles VIII, Amboise, Blois and Gaillon, Fontainebleau and Chantilly, Bury, Dampierre and Valleri, Madrid, Chenonceaux, Anet and Verneuil, Garden writing, St-Germain, Fontainebleau, and Luxembourg René Rapin |
 | | Charles did not bring home much in the way of political gains; the stakes which he won he lost again. |
 | | The death of Charles did not interrupt these activities for a moment; his successor, Louis XII, continued them very zealously in the seventeen years of his reign ; while under Francis L and those who immediately followed him the passion for the work exceeded all bounds. |
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