From 1782 until 1789, the princesse de Monaco (1737-1813) and her lover the prince de Condé (1740-1818) created at Betz (Oise) one of the most costly and ambitious landscape gardens of pre-Revolutionary France. At the heart of Betz was the ‘Vieux château’, a pastiche ruin composed of authentic architectural and sculptural elements salvaged from t…[Read more]