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Mongenan Castle, seen from one of the three gardens<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Since their creation by Jack Lang, theCh\u00e2teau de Mongenan<\/strong><\/a> has participated regularly at the Rendez-vous aux jardins by offering free its visitors receive cuttings of old roses and rare seeds unavailable in garden centers. It’s a way to reconnect with the a tradition from the 18th century, a time when seeds were scarce and expensive because many vegetables had not yet been introduced or consumed in Europe – tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants – and where the different varieties of fruit, created by La Quintinie at the request of Louis XIV, who was very fond of them, made them the subject of a veritable market black between the different noble houses, all of which possessed a kitchen garden.<\/p>\n\n

Discovering Mongenan Castle<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n

Antoine de Gascq, who had Mongenan built in 1736<\/strong> , had created a famous orchestra, the Acad\u00e9mie des Lyriques, whose first sections of The violin and cello were played by the Sarraut brothers, magistrates. Like him, they were passionate about musical composition and great friends of Montesquieu. In 1737, Sarraut de Boynet, the violinist, informed Antoine de Gascq that he could no longer assume the responsibilities of the Academy. The president sought to replace him in Bordeaux and Toulouse, and, finding no one she addressed one of her Parisian friends, the Princess of Savoy Carignan, mother of the future Madame de Lamballe. The latter pointed out to her a young citizen of Geneva, violinist, composer, Protestant, in revolt de ban, who had just arrived in Paris and claimed to be the propagandist of contested theories of another religious scholar, a certain Linnaeus, who had just published a book in which he claimed that plants were sexed and had twenty-four different ways of to reproduce, which deeply shocked Bishop de Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris, especially since Linnaeus, in his preface, claimed that Some plant varieties were the result of relationships between storytelling and nature. or incest. Rousseau refused to be buried in Bordeaux, but discussed botany with Gascq, expressing to him that gardens, such that they were drawn at the time, could not bring happiness to plants. He suggested creating a completely new garden in his structure where plants could live in harmony and in democracy.<\/p>\n\n

Antoine de Gascq accepted. Thus were born the three gardens of Mongenan<\/strong> which retained from the Baroque design the division into three parts, ornamental garden, pleasure garden, and utility garden, arranged around a central axis in successive terraces, which symbolically represented the owner’s body, his face, his entrails and its limbs.<\/p>\n\n

This drawing was always kept with the plants that Rousseau had Recommended and distributed annually: Roses hollyhocks which were used to correct wines of light, pastel color, soapwort for laundry, common rhue, indigo, wet pear mouth, French capon strawberries, chicory, parsnips, Jerusalem artichokes, gooseberry, Jussieu cannas, catmint for the happiness of cats, medlar trees, quince trees, olive trees, pomegranate trees etc\u2026<\/p>\n\n

The only thing missing is one of the oldest cedars in France, which once dominated the house from the garden for enjoyment and that the great storm of It was shot down in 1999. Two attempts at replacement were made. unsuccessful, because the soil is exhausted by two and a half centuries of cedar gourmand.<\/p>\n\n

In contrast, the pleasure garden saw the arrival of [something] under Louis XVI plants from distant lands: wisteria, from Japan; ginkgo biloba; chimonanthus praecox, which came from China, Osage orange, which came from America, like the Virginia persimmon, magnolias, cashew tree, fringes, sassafras, all carefully acclimatized as were patiently tending the rose bushes that border the vineyard, much to the displeasure of those who cultivate it. Mrs. de Parab\u00e8re, Mrs. de Grossouvre, centenarian of Lourdes, Cardinal Richelieu, Hazelnut Blush, Lyonnaise candor, Alb\u00e9ric Barbier, Paul and Scarlett join the cast climber, Gylislaine de F\u00e9ligonde and other Dorothy Perkins.<\/p>\n\n

For the Rendez-vous aux jardins event, the visit to the three gardens is entrusted to SIGM, Savoirs et Images en Graves de Montesquieu. Christiane Espeut explains the symbolism of gardens, their ability to render the transparent building, while botanist Nicole Puisn\u00e9 comments tirelessly studies plants, attaches anecdotes to them, and gives… cultivation tips.<\/p>\n\n

Naturally, one can, on this occasion, admire the famous herbarium of Rousseau<\/strong> , inventory of the garden in 137 plates and have it explained Everything you need to know about the Linnaean classification in honor of which a pistachio tree, the most sexually prolific tree in the world, almost prevents he entered the herbarium room, so furious had he been for two centuries of not having yet found in the vicinity of pistachio orchards his taste.<\/p>\n\n

Open from 10am to 12pm and from 2pm to 6pm on Saturday and Sunday the 6th and 7th June 2026, free seeds and cuttings naturally<\/strong> . Guided tour. of the museum and gardens; Admission \u20ac10, free for children up to 12 years old.<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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