27.10.13

Désert de Retz, built 1777-1782 by François Nicolas Henri Racine de Monville st in the Forêt de Marly at Chambourcy

the gate

the Tartar tent




the open-air theatre


The Temple of Pan





Le Petit Autel Presque Ruiné


the Colonne brisée




the cracks are glass windows!







the staircase once wrapped around a tree!














The Pyramid Icehouse







 The Church of Saint-Jacques Christophe







The entrance to the Temple of Repose with walls formed by trees and hedges that are now since gone.