Nouvelles des ports

aquarelle marine - marine watercolor

Rafiots et compagnies

aquarelle marine cargo au mouillage - marine watercolor cargo ship at anchor

Nouvelles des escales

aquarelle marine - marine watercolor


Les Nouvelles de Versailles 05 octobre 1924


Some restoration work, which could be envisaged, thanks to the substantial funds available to the architectural services of the Château, and whose execution has just been authorized by the Fine Arts Department, is actively continuing in the Park.
Currently, the marbles on the edge of the vast lawn separating the canal from the Bassin d'Apollon are being cleaned, and the divinities and ancient heroes are emerging, radiant with youth, from the steam bath that has freed them of all traces of lichen or moss.

The heavy horses of the Chariot of Apollo have also been admitted to the Fountain of Youth. They will soon return from the workshop of the founder who must forge a new skeleton for them. One of them has already returned to harness himself to the Chariot of the Sun. About a week ago, the bronzes after the antique that decorate the Terrace of the Château followed the tired horses to Paris.

At Trianon finally, the old trees have been pruned, the arbours cleared and the paths have regained their distant perspectives…

And it is a little of the distressing misery of Versailles that disappears.

  garden of Versailles

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