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Subaquatic vegetation in the Loire river near Digoin, Saône-et-Loire, France (46°27’N, 3°59’E).Training arena in the hippodrome of Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, France (48°57’N, 2°09’E).Nature reserve, Arguin bank, Gironde, France (26°24’N, 80°11’W).
Agricultural landscape near Cognac, Charente, France (45°42’N, 0°17’W).Gardens at the Château of Vaux-le-Vicomte, Maincy, Seine-et-Marne, France (48°34’N, 2°43’E).Oyster beds near Marennes, Charente-Maritime Department, France (45°49’N, 1°06’W).
House in Keremma, on Kernic cove at low tide, Finistère, France (48°39’N, 4°13’W).Gardens of the Château de Villandry, Indre-et-Loire Department, France (47°20’N, 0°30’E).The Puy de Dôme, Auvergne volcano range, Puy-de-Dôme, France (45°47’N, 2°57’E).
The largest plant maze in the world, at Reignac-sur-Indre, Indre-et-Loire Department, France (47°13’N, 0°54’E).Pyramid of the Louvre, Paris, France (48°52’N,2°20’E).Helicopter in the Cirque de Salazie, île de la Réunion, France (21°01’S, 55°32’E).
The Gorges of the Bras de Caverne, island of Réunion, France (21°01’S, 55°33’E).Pink Trumpet Tree on Kaw mountain, French Guiana (4°30’N, 52°00’W).Detail of the Gallo-Roman ruins at Pontchartrain, Yvelines Department, France (48°48N, 1°54’E).
American cemetery north of Verdun, Meuse, France (49°09’N, 5°23’E).Versailles Château at sunset,Yvelines, France (48°48’N, 2°07’E).Nuclear power station at Saint-Laurent-Nouan, Loir-et-Cher, France (47°42’N, 1°35’E).
Car breakers, Saint-Brieuc, Côte d’Armor, France (48°31’N, 2°46’W).Fishermen’s huts near Talmont-sur-Gironde, Charente-Maritime Department, France (45°35’N, 0°54’W).Heart in Voh, New Caledonia (French Overseas Territory) (20°56’S, 164°39’E).
Eruptive cone of Piton de la Fournaise, island of Réunion, France (21°14’S, 55°43’E).Bora Bora, french Polynesia (16°30’S, 151°44’W).château de Versailles, France (48°48’N, 2°05’E).
Deoiling basin at a water purification centre, Marne, France (49°00’N, 4°20’E).Trees downed by storm in the forest of the Vosges Mountains, France (48°39’N, 7°14’E).Roped party of mountaineers climbing Mont Blanc, Haute-Savoie Department, France (45°50’N, 6°53’E).



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Gardens at the Château of Vaux-le-Vicomte, Maincy, Seine-et-Marne, France (48°34’N, 2°43’E).
"The Turkish carpets"-decorative gardens of boxwood hedges-of the château of Vaux-le-Vicomte have been drawn by the landscaper-architect Achille Duchêne in the erli twentieth century. Designed for Nicolas Fouquet, minister of finance, the château was built in five years by approximately 18,000 workers. The garden, set off by several lakes and fountains, is 8,000 feet (2,500 m) long, which required the destruction of two hamlets. Fouquet invited the young king Louis XIV to visit in 1661; offended by the splendor of his subject’s abode, the king ordered an investigation of Fouquet and had him arrested. Le Nôtre, the gardens architect, was assigned the direction of the royal parks and gardens. He designed other gardens ? la française" for the châteaux of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Cloud, and Fontainebleau, but his masterpiece remains the gardens of Versailles, the palace of the Sun King himself.

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