Gaia’s Gift
Garden Education and Tourism
School
We regret, the 2005 class is closed and the program is
under evaluation for next year. If you
would like to visit the gardens of France with a team from l’Ecole,
and we highly recommend it! It’s
important that you contact us!
school@gaias-gift.com
L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles
web page
Located near Paris in one
of the historic gardens of Versailles, the school’s
graduates and teachers are some of the most famous and talented landscape
architects and garden historians in France.
The classrooms and offices are
adjacent to Le Potager du Roi, which ensures ongoing educational
opportunities with fruits and vegetables.
While Le Potager du Roi maintains its historical architecture, from
the days of Louis XIV, it is also a modern experimental garden, testing new
varieties and growing methods.
The school offers a four year
degree program and continuing education classes in the historical, artistic
and practical aspects of gardens in France. The courses, traditionally for the French
public, are normally taught in French.
At the request of Gaias Gift, the
ENSP is developing courses in English, using its talented teachers,
administrators and graduates to give us a truly unique educational
experience.
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Best of French Gardens
May 22 –
31, 2005
Highlights
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Visits to Versailles Chateau, Petit Trianon,
and Grand Trianon with Garden Historian Michel
Baridon
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Le Potager du Roi
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Villandry
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Garden and kitchen visit; dinner with Jean Bardet at Château Belmont in Tours
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L’Haÿ les
Roses, the “first rose garden”
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Paris Museum of Natural History the rose garden
and Le Jardin des Plantes
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Spectacular Buttes Chaumont with garden
historian Stéphanie de Courtois
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Organic Farm near Versailles, tour with the
owner, and the Versailles Market
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Choice of lodging at the luxurious Sofitel or
a convenient business hotel.
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Breakfast at your hotel, lunch and most
dinners at the Sofitel and other fine Versailles and Paris restaurants (see
the detailed itinerary)
Itinerary
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Staff
Specific
contributors may change with the itinerary, here is an introduction to a
few of them; click on the link for more information:
Stéphanie de
Courtois
Our
Program Director, ENSP
Teacher, garden historian, editor and a
published writer; has been responsible for the conservation of the historic
Potager du Roi since 1996
Véronique Sidoli
Class
Administrator, ENSP Landscape Architect and
responsible for continuing education courses in Versailles
Michel Baridon, ENSP
Professor Emeritus, University of Bourgogne. Educator, historian of gardens and
culture, he is particularly interested by the relationship between ideas
and design. His last book was on the
gardens of Versailles
Antoine Jacobsohn, ENSP
His studies in Soil and Crop Culture at Cornell University and in advanced Social Sciences in France have made him a leading speaker, writer and researcher in the
history of food, horticulture and ancient cultures
Philippe
Schuller, ENSP
Philippe brings a different perspective to our
studies with a background in the Arts, Theatre and the production of public
spectacles. With deep ties in the Montreuil community,
he works in many ways to preserve and revive the agricultural history of
that place, including the traditional practice of marking apples.
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