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1 GAZETTEER LIST OF FOLLIES, GROTTOES AND GARDEN BUILDINGS IN FRANCE version March 2017 This is an attempt at putting together a list per department of follies in France that Folly Fellowship members might be interested in when travelling, as spin-off of our research for Follies journal 9, 10 and 15: Follies in France I, II and III, and their Addenda on the FF website. Our hope is that this will inspire others to come up with a complete survey of architectural eccentricities in France. Any additions to this list will be very welcome. If you know more than we do, please write in and tell us all about it. The address is Rita Boogaart, Tarantostraat 41, 5632 RE Eindhoven, the Netherlands. email: [email protected] The word folly is used here in its loosest sense, to cover follies, grottoes, garden buildings, rustic cement, outsider (art) gardens, romantic gardens and any eccentric architecture with folly-like qualities. Generally speaking we only mention half-follies like ice-houses, orangeries, dovecotes, bridges etc. if they are connected to real follies, unless they are real follies or exceptionally rich or peculiar examples themselves, if you see what we mean. 01 Ain Rhône-Alpes Champdor castle: 1846 separate six-storey-high (clock)tower with sundial Ste-Euphémie, Le Boujard castle: lone decorated tower with builders’ inscriptions of 1850 02 Aisne Picardie Andelain, château Maguin: 19thC octagonal brick pagoda-shaped dovecote Fère-en-Tardenois along D310 to Coincy: Devil’s Basket, rock sculptures Gauchy, ville d’Albert garden: kiosk, cascade Crécy-sur-Serre, place des Alliés: 1576 belfry with lantern, 1638-1866 enclosed, now town mark Guise, rue Sadi-Carnot: Familistères: residential complex with teahouse Laon, place de Semilly: Pierre-Michel Duval’s classical bureau d’octroi, 1847 Largny-sur-Automne, 4 route de Vez, Les Charmettes/Parc Castellant: follies celebrating Rousseau Mortefontaine, ferme de Vaubéron, D94: octagonal dovecote with machicolations St-Quentin, Promenade des Champs Elysées: cascade, kiosk, pious portal, rustic cement tree stump St-Quentin, Jardin d’Horticulture: chalet with turret, grotto, c. 1870 Septmont: park with eyecatcher donjon Vadencourt, Bohéries abbey: octagonal baroque cut-stone dovecote with wings Vic-sur-Aisne, Thurier domain (along river), 19thC belvedere tower Vic-sur-Aisne, castle: colonnade/gloriette, sham ruins Viry-Noureuil: ‘Jardin du Coquillage’, Bodan Litnanski’s house/garden 03 Allier Auvergne Charroux, remains abbey church: Carolingian tower Lapalisse park: kiosk/pavilion as centre-piece, 1936 Moulins, rue de Bourgogne: watertower with house facade, 1758 Noyant-d’Allier, La Brosse: Indo-Chinese temple complex, Buddhist Pagoda Park, 1983 Venas near Cosne-d’Allier: ‘Maison Couleur du Temps’, Mr Chop’s colourful house Vichy, 2 rue Besse: Albert Londres’ neo-Gothic house, 1860 Vichy, 19 Bd. Carnot: Moorish villa by Decoret/Peercilly, 1906 Vichy, 132 Bd. des États Unis: Moorish dome on baths by Charles Lecoeur, 1903 Vichy, 105-109 Bd. des États Unis: 3 rustic chalets by Jean Lefaur for Napoleon III, c. 1860 Vichy, Parc des Sources: art-nouveau bandstand, 1902 Vichy, Parc des Célestins: oval Hall of the Sources Célestins Villeneuve-sur-Allier, La Balaine park: chapel, hut, garden shower, temple-kiosk-lavoir 19thC 04 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Forcalquier, place St-Michel: 1512 St Michel fountain in shape of a heavily sculpted pinnacle Digne-les-Bains: La Grande Fontaine 1828: 2 Doric porticoes

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version March 2017 This is an attempt at putting together a list per department of follies in France that Folly Fellowship members might be interested in when travelling, as spin-off of our research for Follies journal 9, 10 and 15: Follies in France I, II and III, and their Addenda on the FF website. Our hope is that this will inspire others to come up with a complete survey of architectural eccentricities in France. Any additions to this list will be very welcome. If you know more than we do, please write in and tell us all about it. The address is Rita Boogaart, Tarantostraat 41, 5632 RE Eindhoven, the Netherlands. email: [email protected]

The word folly is used here in its loosest sense, to cover follies, grottoes, garden buildings, rustic cement, outsider (art) gardens, romantic gardens and any eccentric architecture with folly-like qualities. Generally speaking we only mention half-follies like ice-houses, orangeries, dovecotes, bridges etc. if they are connected to real follies, unless they are real follies or exceptionally rich or peculiar examples themselves, if you see what we mean.

01 Ain Rhône-Alpes Champdor castle: 1846 separate six-storey-high (clock)tower with sundial Ste-Euphémie, Le Boujard castle: lone decorated tower with builders’ inscriptions of 1850 02 Aisne Picardie Andelain, château Maguin: 19thC octagonal brick pagoda-shaped dovecote Fère-en-Tardenois along D310 to Coincy: Devil’s Basket, rock sculptures Gauchy, ville d’Albert garden: kiosk, cascade Crécy-sur-Serre, place des Alliés: 1576 belfry with lantern, 1638-1866 enclosed, now town mark Guise, rue Sadi-Carnot: Familistères: residential complex with teahouse Laon, place de Semilly: Pierre-Michel Duval’s classical bureau d’octroi, 1847 Largny-sur-Automne, 4 route de Vez, Les Charmettes/Parc Castellant: follies celebrating Rousseau Mortefontaine, ferme de Vaubéron, D94: octagonal dovecote with machicolations St-Quentin, Promenade des Champs Elysées: cascade, kiosk, pious portal, rustic cement tree stump St-Quentin, Jardin d’Horticulture: chalet with turret, grotto, c. 1870 Septmont: park with eyecatcher donjon Vadencourt, Bohéries abbey: octagonal baroque cut-stone dovecote with wings Vic-sur-Aisne, Thurier domain (along river), 19thC belvedere tower Vic-sur-Aisne, castle: colonnade/gloriette, sham ruins Viry-Noureuil: ‘Jardin du Coquillage’, Bodan Litnanski’s house/garden 03 Allier Auvergne Charroux, remains abbey church: Carolingian tower Lapalisse park: kiosk/pavilion as centre-piece, 1936 Moulins, rue de Bourgogne: watertower with house facade, 1758 Noyant-d’Allier, La Brosse: Indo-Chinese temple complex, Buddhist Pagoda Park, 1983 Venas near Cosne-d’Allier: ‘Maison Couleur du Temps’, Mr Chop’s colourful house Vichy, 2 rue Besse: Albert Londres’ neo-Gothic house, 1860 Vichy, 19 Bd. Carnot: Moorish villa by Decoret/Peercilly, 1906 Vichy, 132 Bd. des États Unis: Moorish dome on baths by Charles Lecoeur, 1903 Vichy, 105-109 Bd. des États Unis: 3 rustic chalets by Jean Lefaur for Napoleon III, c. 1860 Vichy, Parc des Sources: art-nouveau bandstand, 1902 Vichy, Parc des Célestins: oval Hall of the Sources Célestins Villeneuve-sur-Allier, La Balaine park: chapel, hut, garden shower, temple-kiosk-lavoir 19thC 04 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Forcalquier, place St-Michel: 1512 St Michel fountain in shape of a heavily sculpted pinnacle Digne-les-Bains: La Grande Fontaine 1828: 2 Doric porticoes

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05 Haute-Alpes Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Bénévent-et-Charbillac, L’Auberie: Jacques Pascal’s naïve chapel of the pétètes, dolls, 1743 Gap, Manoir de Kapados: Moresque kiosk from World Expo 1900 Paris, private. 06 Alpes-Maritimes Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Beaulieu-sur-Mer, near beach: villa Arabe Beaulieu-sur-Mer: Théodore Reinach’s sham ancient Greek villa Kérylos, 1902-1908 Cannes, 18 rue Edith-Cavell, villa Borniol: sham Roman ruin, kiosk, artificial rocks, private Cannes, 7 Av. Jean-de-Noailles, Rothschild villa: gardens with fabriques, 1881 Cannes, Av. Fiesole, Villa Fiesole (J-G Domergue): cascades, grottoes, Etruscan tombs, 1926-36 Cannes, Villa du Rocher: neo-Gothic octagonal donjon with outside stairs Cannes, 85 Av. Roi-Albert, Villa Soligny: neo-Gothic octagonal belvedere tower, 1870 Cannes: concrete crenelated watertower-belvedere, 1926, for aborted new developments Cannes, villa Camille Amélie, Av. Maréchal Juin: nympheum, c. 1890 Èze-village, Bd. Maréchal Leclerc: Alfred Tennyson’s sham castle de l’Aiguette, 1901 Grasse, Villa Noailles: Gabriel Guevrékian’s 1930s Cubist garden: pavilions, nympheum, private Menton, Bd. de Garavan, Les Colombières: trompe l’oeil, rotunda, nympheum, obelisk, etc. Menton, Fontana Rosa garden: Spanish elements, columns, pergolas Menton, 74 Route de Gorbio, Serre de Madone: Japanese garden, ‘hanging patio, orangerie’ Menton, Fontana Rosa: V B Ibañez Novelists’ garden with half-rotunda, belvedere, library etc. Menton, Garavan, Av. A Briand: Le Clos du Peyronnet garden: grotto, aquatic staircase, arcade Monte-Carlo, nr., Grand Corniche: sham castle Nice, Av. Nicholas II: Russian cathedral Nice, route de St-Pancrace: Ben Vautier’s house ‘Cunégonde et Malabar’, everything junk, outsider art Nice, Av. George Sand, Chambrun park: Love Temple aka Diana temple aka music kiosk, 1885-90 Nice, parc de la colline du château: large cascade Nice, 7 Av.de Fabron, Parc des Grands Cèdres: grotte, fabrique de jardin

Nice: cascade de Gairaut, Austrian-style house, grotto and cascade, 1883 St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat: villa Ephrussi / Ile-de-France: 7 gardens with grotto, temple etc., 1905-1912 St-Paul (de Vence), Fondation Maeght: Joan Miró’s labyrinth: arch, 1963 07 Ardèche Rhône-Alpes Bourg-St-Andéol, Av. Marc Pradelle: classical temple-shaped Lavoir de Tourne, 1843 Dompnac: Pierre Bouvarel’s Le Ron des Fades (Fairies Rock village): ideal miniature village in stone Lavilledieu, place de Bayssac: Serge Tekielski’s Petit Musée du Bizarre 08 Ardennes Champagne-Ardenne Asfeld: brick violin-shaped St Didier church with rotunda portico, 1683 Bazeilles castle: Love pavilions, (semi)circular orangery Saulces-Monclin, A34 services: Woinic, the giant boar Sedan, Porte de la Cassine: rustic cement tree as monument, 1870 09 Ariège Midi-Pyrénées Alas: Robert Mathey’s Giants of the Stone garden along river Lez Ax-les-Thermes: castellated square turret as shrine, topped by Mary and angels, above town Montardit: Jean-Marie Piquemal’s naive church, church yard etc., 1968-2001 St-Pierre-de-Rivière, Peyrelade: Gerard Hansotte’s Barguillère zoo, sculptures, buildings, from 1997 10 Aube Champagne-Ardenne La Motte-Tilly, English castle park: small grotto with rotunda, 18thC Pargues: 1894 decorated watertower with terrace and windmill for lavoir Troyes, Bd Gambetta, Jardin du Rocher: rustic cement tree-stump, rustic benches, 1899 Troyes, Rue de la Madeleine, Jardin de la Vallée Suisse: Swiss valley rocks, rustic cement bridges 11 Aude Languedoc-Rousillon Bizanet: three-dimensional trompe l’oeil, 1963 Carcassonne, nr.: Graham Rose’s folly? (see Foreword) Castelnaudary, route de la Gare: disused octagonal cut-stone railway watertower in teahouse shape Narbonne, place Bistan: obelisk fountain, much enlarged 2004 version of 1676 Fontaine Bistan Rennes-le-Château: Bérenger Saumière’s orangery, grotto work and Magdala tower

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Seuil de Naumouze: obelisk on watershed for P P Riquet, builder of Canal du Midi, 1827 12 Aveyron Midi-Pyrénées Martiel, abbey: grotto Millau, 38, Bd de l’Ayrolle: Lavoir de l’Ayrolle, 1759 Montclar, D60: belvedere watertower with outside stairs Salles-la-Source, château du Colombier: pavilion 13 Bouches-du-Rhône Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Aix-en-Provence, 8 Av. Pasteur: mausoleum & garden freemason Joseph Sec, secular monument 1792 Les Baux-de-Provence, Vallon de la Fontaine: stone Love pavilion of Reine Jeanne, 16thC Châteaurenard: no fantasy garden of Pastouret anymore Maillane cemetery: Frédéric Mistral’s monument, 1914, copy of Love pavilion of Reine Jeanne Marseilles, Pointe-Rouge: belvedere, rustic cement Marseilles, 140 Bd. Longchamp: H. Espéradieu’s watertower, colonnades, zoo buildings Marseilles, 584 Av. du Prado, Parc Valbelle: chapel Marseilles: Roucas-Blanc: belvedere etc., rustic cement Marseilles, St Marcel, Traverse des Reymonds: stucco trompe l’oeil gallery Marseilles :divers rocaille work Pont-de-l’Étoile: ‘Maison de celle-qui-peint’, Danielle Jacqui’s colourful house/studio Port-de-Bouc: Raymond Moralès’s exposition park Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Avignon castle domain: 1896 neo-medieval watertower with belvedere rim 14 Calvados Basse-Normandie Biéville-Beuville, Lecoq estate: classical round stone well-head, 1632 Caen, 6 rue Damozanne, Jardin de la Luna Rossa: naive sculpture mainly Deauville, 83, rue Victor Hugo: quasi-historic little castle Deauville, 28, rue du Golf: Moresque villa El Djezair Dives-sur-Mer, 13 rue des frères Bisson: Euclides da Costa’s mosaic house/garden Fontaine-Henry, 4 Rue des Rosières, former restaurant Jouanne: 2-storey faux-bois extension, 1845 Hérouville-Saint-Clair, domaine de Beauregard: entry lodge tower, style troubadour castle, 19thC Hérouville-Saint-Clair, Clos de la Delle du Mont: pious portal Honfleur, 25 rue de la Foulerie: Florence Marie’s ‘the Forge’ Mézidon-Canon: castle park with follies Ouilly-le-Vicomte, Boutemont castle: chapel, orangery St-Germain-Langot, rue d’Église: hunting lodge, orangery, neo-Gothic private washhouse Soumont-St-Quentin nr Falaise: actress Marie Joly’s sculpted ‘Rousseau’ model tomb, 1798 Thury-Harcourt, at castle ruins: pavilions, chapel, triumphal arch? Vendeuvre: castle park with follies Villiers-le-Sec, castle: park with orangery and icehouse 15 Cantal Auvergne 16 Charente Poitou-Charantes Angoulême, rue du château d’eau: watertower in shape of Renaissance palace Baigne-Ste-Radegonde, Montausir castle: abbot Michon’s Moresque galleries, 1870s Cognac, jardin publique: grottoes, Gothic tower, kiosk etc. Confolens, Domaine de Villechaise: lakeside pavilion with stalactite grotto inside Magnac-Lavalette-Villars: La Mercerie, folly of the Réthoré brothers Nieuil, hotel Château de Nieuil (hunting lodge Francois I): Moresque well-house, c. 1900, private St-Maurice- des-Lions, Domaine de Villechaise: stalactited fish temple/grotto Villechaise near Confolens: rustic fishing hut Yviers, hameau de Lavaure: La Bohème, Lucien Favreau’s house/garden and sculptures 17 Charente-Maritime Poitou-Charantes Brizambourg, 184 rue de Cognac: Franck Vriet’s animal kingdom Les Mathes, La Palmyre Zoo: 1985 watertower in the shape of a high hollow rock with waterfall Nantillé near St Jean-d’Angély, hameau de Çhez Audebert’: Albert Gabriel’s jardin sculpté Pons, rue de Gemozac: 1902 mock-medieval watertower with large éolienne Pons, route de Fleac: castle, moved stone by stone 8 km in 1886 by railway buff

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Rochefort, 141 rue Pierre Loti: maison Pierre Loti: oriental architecture inside! La Rochelle, d’Orbigny park: round half-open Fleuriau belvedere pavilion for spa guests, 19thC Royan, nr: Cordouan lighthouse Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente, on the coast: 1763 octagonal Fontaine de Lupin for ships, blind arches Saujon, rue Eugène Mousnier, Thermes Hypocrate: pious portal 18 Cher Centre Ainay-le-Vieil castle: 2 pavilions, architectural trelliswork Apremont-sur-Allier, Parc Floral: follies Aubigny-sur-Nère, rue des Dames/rue Porte-Ste-Anne: Bourdoiseau house, weird roof details, 1881 Aubigny-sur-Nère, chemin de Parcelles: Bourdoiseau garden pavilion Bourges, place Séraucourt: baroque watertower building, now contemporary art gallery, 1867 Neuvy-Deux-Clochers near Les Poteries: Jean Linard’s Cathedral, from 1961 St-Amand-Montrond, on Tour hill: octagonal Malakoff Tower by Mortemart, 1855 St-Amand-Montrond: Regnault’s observation tower in park, XIX, built for famine relief Vierzon, Abbey garden: theatre and art deco park 1925-1935 Villequier: Victor Hugo’s ‘castle’ 19 Corrèze Limousin Brive-la-Gaillarde, Av du 14-Juillet: 1834 lighthouse-shape watertower Lubersac: M Costa’s rustic cement garden Masseret, chemin de la Butte: 1956 mock-medieval watertower-belvedere with orientation table 20 Corse Corse Bastia, la Citadelle: René Mattei’s Corse miniature animée in museum, 1983-1986 Carriolu, Capo al Ponte: Jean-Claude Marchi’s miniature stone village from 1997 Cuttoli-Corticchiato, lieu-dit Giaccarello: L. and S. Periault’s Monde Miniature, 2001 etc 21 Côte-d’Or Bourgogne Arceau: wooden windmill Arceau, Arcelot castle: Chinese pavilion, bridge, orangery, columns Baulme-la-Roche, rue de la Mairie, classical fountain, 1822 Beire-le-Châtel, along D960: castle-house Bèze, Champ de Foire: Lavoir des Soeurs, stone kiosk leaning to former dovecote, 18thC Blessey: classical semicircular lavoir with colonnade, now landscape element. 1835 Henri Sirodot Dijon, Av. Albert I, Arquebuse park: Love temple, aviary, theatre, logettes Dijon, Bd de Strassbourg: 1847 water reservoir in hexagonal castellated tower Dijon, castle courtyard: Tour Philippe Dijon, Colombière park:17thC rotunda temple, moved in 1965 to classical park Dijon, Port du Canal: obelisk 1780 Dijon, place Darcy: triumphal arch, cascade, grotto, octagonal watertower with ornamental lantern, 1844 Fixin, route des Grands Crus: 1827 neo-classical crescent arcade lavoir, Auguste Sirodot Fixin, Parc Noisot: The Fort: Napoléon’s house in Elba + monument mid 19thC Lantenay castle: mid-18thC nympheum in courtyard, 17thC pavilion in park Montigny-sur-Aube, La Place/Grande Rue:19thC lavoir with ‘lacework’ in front of wooden arches Moutiers-St-Jean, jardin du président Jean Coeur du Roy: gateway, nympheum, obelisks Poncey-sur-l’Ignon: two identical arcade lavoirs by Auguste Sirodot, 1846, 1849 Savigny-lès-Beaune, 1 rue soeur Goby, castle garden: orangery, grotto-niche: stripes of porous stone Source-Seine, D103-D961: grotto-nympheum 1867 Vougeot, Clos-de-Vougeot vineyard: belvedere house with octagonal turret 22 Côtes-d’Armor Bretagne Belle-Isle-en-Terre: Mond’s sham-medieval mausoleum, 1950 La Bouillie: La Ville-Théart brothers’ prospect tower, 1863 Carnoët, Vallée des Saints, Traonienn ar Sen: one thousand Breton saints, statues Lamballe, Moglais castle park: 18thC orangery, 19thC theatre Lamballe, near Champ de Foire: round watertower with octagonal gallery and spire Pléhédel: Réné Raoult’s eglise verte (green church), totem pole Plestin-les-Grèves, St-Efflam: 1928 concrete house with eagle for inventor Vendôme

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Plestin-les-Grèves, St-Efflam: Lady Mond’s sham-medieval villa, 1930 Ploubezre, Kergrist castle: sham ruins Quintin, Roz-Maria park: 17thC meditation bench and ponds Tredarzec: Prince Peter Wolkonsky’s Kerdalo garden with grotto etc., 1950s Tréglamus, 14 rue de la Mairie: Eugène Bornet’s fantasy garden with stone ship, lighthouse etc

23 Creuse Limousin Flayat, lieu-dit Salesse: 8-m. concrete watertower, disguised as stone ruin to match chapel, 1972 Fransèches, Masgot: François Michaud’s sculpted village St-Sulpice-les-Champs, Masgot: François Michaud’s sculpted village Vassivière: Aldo Rossi’s lighthouse, 1988 24 Dordogne Aquitaine Beaumont-du-Perigord, D660: 19thC gloriette Creysse, visible from D260, Tiregand Castle: 18thC rotunda, ostrich pen La Force, John Bost Foundation: 19thC watertower with octagonal wooden fretwork gallery La Force, John Bost Foundation: 19thC 4 storey watertower with outside stairs Lavalade, Bourg: fake classical ruins at stone merchant, 1980s Montpon-Ménestérol, La Moutasse: half-timbered dovecote with witches hat roof, now house Mouleydier: belvedere tower with pigeon-holes Nojals-et-Clotte: wooden castles in trees and on water as holiday accommodation St-Géraud-de-Corps, along D33: dovecote / fountain and trompe l’oeil Le Pigeonnier Salignac-Eyvigues, Eyrignac castle: architectural topiary, Chinese pavilion, torii, orangery Terrasson-la-Villedieu, Gustafson / Ritchie’s Gardens of the Imagination, 1990s Trémolat: model château

Vézac, Marqueyssac castle gardens: dry-stone huts, incl. poet’s refuge, end 19thC 25 Doubs Franche-Comté Arc-et-Senans, Roche-sur-Lou castle: kiosk Arc-et-Senans: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux grotto-entrance of Royal Saltworks, 1775 Besançon, Castan Square: English landscaped park with sham ruins of real archeological finds, 1874 Besançon, Jean Cornet square: wall fountain 1900 Besançon, rue des Fusillés de la Résistance: Black Gate, Roman vestige Besançon, 27 quai de Strasbourg: 1870 neo-Moresque synagogue Courtefontaine, D134: fontaine-lavoir St-Laurent, mixed style,1868 Épeugney, rue de l’Église: crescent lavoir with aedicules and column.1828 Longevilles-Mont-d’Or, castellated railway tunnel North entrance, 1910s Loray, rue de la Mairie: classical oval lavoir by Alphons Delacroix, 1851 Narbief, D329, Grande Rue: Arts and Crafts-style lavoir, like metal kiosk, 1872 Ollans castle: mosaic grotto, menagerie buildings, aviary, apiary Vaux-et-Chantegrue, centre: La Pyramide, 1857 obelisk watertower 26 Drôme Rhône-Alpes Dieulefit, place des Tilleuls: Roland Dutel’s la Demeure aux Figures, from 1989 Grignant: 1840 neo-classical round temple as lavoir (washhouse) du Mail 1840 Hauterives: Ferdinand Cheval’s Palais Idéal Loriol-sur-Drôme, 28 Grande rue: Max Manent’s musée de l’Insolite Valence, Perdrix park, two-part modern watertower by Philolaos, 1973 27 Eure Haut-Normandie Beaumesnil, in castle park: curious old green labyrinth on island, swan shelter Boissey-le-Châtel, Tilly castle: 1530s 12-sided dovecote with brick patterns and 4 dormer windows Broglie: Irial Vets’s Sistine chapel and monuments Courteilles, at the old château: tholos, rock-tunnel, tower, obelisk Evreux, Navarre castle: rock formation Gaillon, castle court: in 1986 reclaimde ruins of Porte de Gênes and Cerfs gallery Gisors, rue de Preslay, Douai de Graville park: pleasure pavilion called pagodon de Gisors, 17thC

Louviers, 80 rue du Bal Champêtre: ‘Maison à Vaisselle Cassée’, Robert Vasseur’s house/garden Louviers, 7 Quai de Bigard: rustic cement roothouse

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Le Neubourg, château de Champs de Bataille: many follies currently built; Oriental palace Pitres D20 (Cote des Deux Amants): Love temple for honeymoon Pont-St-Pierre: ruins of Levasseur’s 1861 cathedral-like spinning-mill St-Germain-sur-Avre: Didier Lobert de Bouillon Viéville’s tower-studio, sham cloister; island pavilion St-Just castle estate: Duc de Penthièvre’s dairy, icehouse, tombe, pavilion St-Pierre-du-Vauvray: chemin de Halage, le moulin fleuri, outsider garden St-Pierre-du-Vauvray, rue du Château, Château Blanc (camping Le St-Pierre): grotwork, rustic hut Thuit-Hébert, 577 rue de Brotonne: sham fortress 1994 28 Eure-et-Loir Centre Abondant, Dreux forest at roundabout D928: grand octagonal hunting lodge 1756 Anet castle: cryptoporticus etc. Aunay-sous-Crécy: Mme de Pompadour’s bath Chartres, 22 rue du Repos: Raymond Isidore’s ‘Maison Picassiette’ Chartres, rue de Poelle Percée, and flats in Bel Air area: trompe l’oeil architecture Crécy-Couvé, Mme de Pompadour park: icehouse, dairy, Italianate screening wall Happonvilliers, Les Jardins de la feuilleraie: Renée Bodin aka Hurfane’s mosaics garden Illiers-Combray, route de Tansonville, le pré-catelan Marcel Proust: Archers house, small follies Maintenon castle park: orangery, unfinished aqueduct, Le Nôtre garden St-Maurice-St-Germain, Des Vaux castle park: dovecote, orangery, half-open round love temple 19thC 29 Finistère Bretagne Concarneau: neo-Gothic castle Kériolet, tower, maison de gardien St-Goazec, château Trévarez: screen etc. Sainte-Sève: modern watertower, decorated to resemble red-Indian head with transmitter feathers 30 Gard Languedoc-Rousillon Alès: sham ruin on roundabout Anduze: little fountain-pagode by silk-route traveller, 1646 Anduze: 1830 Pradier fountain with one, Bicentenary fountain (1989) with three (broken) columns. Aramon castle park: romantic follies, 19thC Argilliers: château du Majorat de Castille, follies Barjac, La Ribaute, Anselm Kiefer’s estate: concrete towers, theatre Corbès, D907, Les Adams: 19thC sham castle ruin Générargues: Domaine de Prafrance, La Bambouseraie: Laotian village, torii, Phoenix pavilion Nîmes, jardin de la Fontaine: Diana temple, nymphaeum (Vers) Pont-du-Gard, St-Privat castle: nympheum, rockery etc. Pont-St-Esprit, St Pierre Square: neo-Gothic decorated grand stairs, c. 1850 Pont-Saint-Esprit, rue Jean Moulin: Lavoir de l’Hôpital: large Roman-style washhouse, 1832 Remoulins, rue de L’Ancient Pont: pavillons d’octrois, giant Doric columns St-Ambroix: Jacques Vincent Gisquet’s Tour Gisquet, 1850s, for victory in dipute over the rock St-Ambroix: Abbot Salignon’s fort-like Chapelle du Dugas, built from castle ruin material, 1867 St-Jean-du-Gard: sham ruin on roundabout St-Victor-la-Coste: fountain of knowledge, obelisk for centenary French revolution & science, 1889 Uzès, under terrasse Racine: 1854 lavoir with Tuscan columns in clerestory Vergèze, Source Perrier garden: pavilion 31 Haute-Garonne Midi-Pyrénées Cambiac: dilapidated castellated dovecote Merville, château de Beillard: park with hedge maze, icehouse Odars: fancy neo-classical dovecote with tower Toulouse, jardin des plantes: fake ruin, cascade Toulouse, 1 Place Laganne, monumental watertower 1822, now gallery of photography Toulouse: Japanese garden in Compans-Caffarelli park Villemur-sur-Tarn, rue Pierre Marchet, public garden: bulwark with rotunda temple music kiosk 32 Gers Midi-Pyrénées Castéra-Verduzan, (C.-les-Bains,) rue des Fontaines, portico therms: 1820 rockwork spring niches Vic-Fezensac, 20 rue Jean Jaurès: museum of artist Cathérine Moreno, outsider building from 2002

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33 Gironde Aquitaine Arcachon, Moresque park: 19thC kiosk, Moresque chapel Léon Lesca Arès: small castellated tower Blanquefort, Av. du Gén. de Gaulle, Majolan park: belvedere, grottoes, sham ruins, Le Breton, 1870s Bordeaux, place des Quinconces: rostral columns (1828), temp. wooden Japanese bridge, 2009 Bordeaux, Nansouty, 8 rue de Marmande: Japanese garden with Thai pavilion, by appointment, 19thC Bordeaux, three 18thC former town gates turned triumphal arches Bordeaux, Pl. de la Victoire: pink twisted obelisk 2005 Bordeaux, 5 rue Montesquieu, Le Chapon Fin: winter garden with rockeries, faux-bois balcony, 1825 Bourg: retired colonial state employee Dumeyniou’s Moorish house extension, c. 1900 Cadaujac, Malleret castle: labyrinth, follies Cap-Ferret, neo-Moresque chapel of Léon Lesca’s former Villa Algérienne 1885 Cestas, Av. du Baron Haussmann: private 1860 octagonal watertower with gallery and curved roof Coutras: hexagonal stone 2-tier well-head Puits Henri IV, 1551 Gradignan, Laurenzane park: Eiffel glasshouse with belvedere on top, from Cadaujac Gradignan, Poumey castle: eyecatcher arch, octagonal kiosk Guîtres town centre: classical stone pedimented well-head Puits Henri IV, moved from castle in 1983 Langon, Vergers park: little concrete mosque folly, for hippodrome, early 1900s Lormont, 1 rue de Prince Noir, Lormont castle: Black Prince fancy wellhead or gloriette Mérignac, Av.de la Marne, Bourran park: follies: temple, bridges, grotto, ruin etc by Le Breton, 1870 Pessac, Gazalet castle: Jospeh Monier’s rustic cement watertower and bridge, dovecote Plassac, Île Verte domain: 1880 sham medieval castellated tower with vine decorations Podensac, Chavat park: love temple, grottoes, rocaille, Le Corbusier concrete watertower/belvedere Portets, Mongenan castle: Tour du Président Gascq (octroi) Prempuyre, rue de Segur, castle park: square 18thC brick & stone watertower with balustrades St-André-de-Cubzac, du Bouilh castle: cut-stone watertower in shape of terraced fort with arches St-Estèphe: pagoda-like towers on wine castle St-Hippolyte, Ferrand castle: 17thC tunnels, grottoes St-Magne-de-Castillon, domaine de Franc: belvedere Ste-Foye-la-Grande, Pineuilh, la Goubière: Franck Barret’s museum/farm Sauveterre-de-Guyenne: Raymond Guittet’s fantasy garden Soulac-sur-Mer: villa San José, rustic cement Talence, av. de la Vieille Tour, La Tour Haut Brion castle: 3-tier hexagonal watertower with 3 arches La Teste-de-Buch, roundabout: cabane tchanquée (local style cabin/hut on stilts) Le Verdon-sur-Mer, nr: Cordouan lighthouse Villandraut, along D8: private 2-tier watertower-belvedere 34 Hérault Languedoc-Rousillon Agde: Camille Vidal’s Noah’s Ark is gone Azillanet: Fontaine au Lion, 19thC rockery fontaine-lavoir Béziers, plateau de Poètes: Titan lake, Grottoes lake Cazouls-lès-Béziers, Cure le Bas park: gloriettes, orangeries, pavilion Lavérune, route de Juvignac, Engarran castle: buffet d’eau

Mauguio, rue de la Motte, Motte garden: labyrinth, grotto, watertower/belvedere Montpellier, All. J-B de la Mosson, Bonnier de la Mosson estate: buffet d’eau in long, niched wall Montpellier, 3, rue de Clapiés, Hôtel Haguenot garden: fountain, nympheum, c. 1750 Montpellier, 3 Pierre Flotte square, Hôtel de Guidais garden: sculpted buffet d’eau, 18thC Montpellier, Parc de la Guirlande: shell grotto with buffet d’eau, 18thC Montpellier, Parc du Chateau de Bocaud: 17thC stairs, rocaille alcove, shell grotto/nympheum Montpellier, Parc de la Mosson: temple-shaped octroi, moved to park Montpellier, Place Christophe Colomb: temple-shaped octroi, moved to roundabout Montpellier, Quai du Verdanson: temple-shaped octroi, moved and turned fountain Montpellier, 1000, rue de la Roqueturière: Maison (Victor) Grazzi / villa aux cent regards, 1950s Montpellier, 2235 route de Vauguières, Mogère castle: seat, aqueduct, buffet d’eau 18thC Montpellier: Ricardo Bofill’s architecture and decorations

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Montpellier, place Royale du Peyrou: triumphal arch, aqueduct, watertower/pavilion Roujan, Prieuré Royal de Notre Dame de Cassan: pagoda/dovecote, Chinese bridge Servian, St Adrien garden: modern 4-level quarry garden with rocks and ruins, open from 2000 35 Ille-et-Vilaine Bretagne Bazouges-la-Pérouse, Ballue castle: symbolic garden with architectural topiary Bécherel, Caradeuc castle: pavilion, kiosks, grotto Le Châtellier, parc floral de Haute Bretagne: columns, pyramids etc. Dinard, 4 rue Coppinger: Villa des Deux-Rives L’Essart: Jacques Lucas’s sculpted house Rennes, 6, Bd de Sébastopol: Prévalayer Moresque bathhouse 1880, now private home Rennes, Thabor garden: grotto, kiosk, pagode dovecote, 19thC Rothéneuf: abbé Fouré’s sculpted rocks St-Benoît-des-Ondes: moulin de la Croix, 2013 turned into artful belvedere La Selle-Guerchaise, route de Fontaine-Couverte: octagonal Chinese pagodon turned chapel Villefontaine, chaussée du Parc: stone 4-winds pavilion of Monbaly domain, eyecatcher, hunting-stand? 36 Indre Centre Issoudun, rue Charles Michels: concrete square watertower on crossing supports, toy-like painted Valençay, castle park Chantemerle: semicircular hunting pavilion La Garenne for Talleyrand, 1809-13 37 Indre-et-Loire Centre Amboise, route de Blère: pagode de Chanteloup, pavilion Amboise: mini-châteaux Val de Loire park Azay-le-Rideau, Chatonnière castle: icehouse, labyrinths etc. Chançay, jardin de Valmer: bowers, yew hedge replacing castle, gazebo, drinks hut, columns, belvedere Chenonceaux, Chenonceau castle: gloriette (columns) at maze La Guerche: first Chinese bridge in France Loches forest, route Forestière de George d’Amboise: 4 pyramids (obelisks) 1770 Marigny-Marmande: Hugh Arnold’s tunnels at château Mondon ruins Reignac-sur-Indres: mazes Richelieu, park: wine cellar, orangery, pavilion Rochecorbon, Rue du Moulin, château de la Tour: peculiar watertower-dovecote combination Souvigné-de-Touraine, opposite town hall: rustic cement kiosk/lockup and rocaille, 1910 Theneuil - l’Îsle-Bouchard: Jacques Lhuilier’s Temple Castle, fake castle entrance, front, cloister Tours, Av. de la Tranchée: pair of pavillons d’octroi, 18thC Tours, botanical garden: gardener’s cottage (rustic cement) Tours: 2 rustic cement music kiosks and at cemetery: several remarkable graves Veigné, Martinière arboretum: Thai pavilion Villandry castle: pavilion, seats etc., ‘Castellane’ lodge 38 Isère Rhône-Alpes Bourgoin-Jallieu (Ruy), Thézieu castle: Tour des Maures / Tour des Morts, c. 1900 Chatte, sham gateway on roundabout Chatte, 2 route de Lyon, St-Marcellin: Jardin Ferroviaire, model train landscape Grenoble, 6,8 rue Félix Poulat: dolphin, elephant houses Grenoble, Paul Mistral park: Perret belvedere tower, concrete, 1925 Grenoble + Voiron church + La Salette-Fallavaux church: examples of cast cement Grenoble, 6,8 rue Félix Poulat: dolphin and elephant houses Lancey: cast cement (lavoir) fountain Ruy near Bourgoin-Jallieu, Thézieu castle: Tour des Maures / Tour des Morts, c. 1900 St-Martin-le-Vinoux, 58 Allée de La Casamaures: neo-Moresque villa, orangery, 1867 Saint-Maximin: Avalon belvedere tower, built 1895 honouring St Hugo of Avalon on castle ruins Vienne: Pyramide on four arches, Plan de l’Aiguille, from Roman circus 39 Jura Franche-Comté Arlay, Aire du Jura A39: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux buildings Arlay, 2 route de Proby, D’Arlay castle park: grotto, gloriette, labyrinth etc. Bletterans, D’Arlay castle park > see Arlay

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Cousance, Rosay: single–handed restoration 12thC castle by Marcel Duthion (1980-1995) Dole, Parc de Scey: ornamental stairs, nympheum, pavilion, 18thC Moissey, Grande Rue: fontaine-lavoir, 1765 Orchamps: sham stone classical facade for 1846 metal lavoir Pont-de-Poitte: sham medieval watertower with lavoir under the arches, 1906 Ranchot, Grande Rue: iron well-head with 8 candelabre columns under a Chinese roof, c. 1860 Sermange, 6, rue du Four: Grande Fontaine, semicircular with four frostwork columns, 1767 Villers-Farlay: Gentil Godjo’s labyrinth is lost 40 Landes Aquitaine Cauneille, Jean Rameau park: delapidating gloriette/mausoleum with poet’s lyre on cupola, 1928 Dax, pl. de la Fontaine Chaude: Nèhe well (hot springs), roofless neo-Roman bath with arcades, 1814 Dax, Bd Carnot/Allée des Baignots: small half-open classical rotunda gazebo 41 Loir-et-Cher Centre Blois, castle garden: Gilles Clément’s amethyst nympheum, 1990 Blois, place Tien An Men: towngate-like double watertower with balustraded platforms Cellettes, Beauregard castle: icehouse, ruined chapel, Chambord: top of central stairwell on rooftop Chaumont-sur-Loire: yearly garden festival in castle grounds, rustic cement Cheverny, château de Troussay: 18thC gardener’s pavilions Ménars castle: Love temple, pavilion, nympheum/grotto, kiosk, orangerie Monteaux: dovecote, banqueting house, oriental watermill Romorantin-Lanthenay beside townhall: pagode, orangery, tunnel, (chalet?) 42 Loire Rhône-Alpes Châteauneuf, Allée de l’Octroi, Mollard castle: tour Malakoff with trompe l’oeil exterior, 1855 St-Étienne-le-Molard, château de la Bastie d’Urfé: nympheum, grottoes, Love temple St-Just-la-Pendue, place de l’église: 1928 watertower in shape of tower for older attached church 43 Haute-Loire Auvergne Le-Puy-en-Velay, Place du Breuil, Henri-Vinay park: moved pious portal, rustic cement, monuments Le-Puy-en-Velay, 60 Bd St-Louis: Pannessac tower, vestige of medieval town gate 44 Loire-Atlantique Pays de la Loire Batz-sur-Mer, 10 rue de la Plage: small belvedere tower at Villa le Prieré St-Georges, 1905 Bouée, le Grand Quartier: house (B&B) on round industrial chimney, 2009 Le Cellier near Nantes: Maximilien Siffait’s megalomaniac Folies Siffait La Chapelle-sur-Erde, Chantrerie park: Jumelle tower, neo-Gothic 1836 chapel tower/belvedere Couëron, quai Émile Paraf: shot tower Nantes, Jardin des Plantes: rockeries, chalet, orangeries, fountain Nantes, 2, quai Ferdinant Favre: LU 1905 corner tower, 1998 rebuilt as belvedere tower Lieu Unique Nantes, Île de Nantes: machines (e.g. walking war-elephant), exhibitions, fairground architecture Nantes, L’Île de Versailles garden: Japanese pavilion and bridge, rockery, cascade Rémouillé, rue de la Basse Fosse: les folies Garreau, mausoleum, hanging gardens, etc., 19thC Vallet, château de la Noë Bel-Air: orangery, wall with fake turrets Varades, rue de La Madeleine, Palais Briau park: several follies, from 1854 45 Loiret Centre Beaugency: summerhouse in public gardens Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, arboretum castle park: 8 columns of love temple, late 19thC Jargeau, rue de L’Echo: Marcel Lambert’s artistic garden buildings, c. 1900 Malesherbes, Bois de Buthiers, Roche aux Amis: rebuilt bell turret on hunt rendezvous grotto 18thC Olivet, along Loiret, fancy boat houses: Quetonnière boathouse with oriental pavilion on top, 19thC Orléans, Bd. de Chateudun/rue de Faubourg-St Jean: peculiar roof window frames, c. 1910 Orleans, Louis Pasteur park: pious portal of old church, moved to cemetery and later park decoration Orléans, George-V bridge: pair of pavillons d’octroi, 18thC 46 Lot Midi-Pyrénées Albas: folly tower in garden south-west of bridge Alvignac, D126: La Source Salmière pavilion, elegant concrete dome in colonnade 1904-1906

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Cahors: J.F. Maurice (see Preface) Caïx, castle gardens: poet of Caix J.J. Lefrancs belvedere folly / writer’s den Figeac, S and W of town: two stone needles, 14 and 10.5 metres high, 13thC, restored 19thC Figeac, rue des Frères Champollion, court of museum of script: giant Rosetta stone Figeac, place de la Raison: 1832 obelisk for townsman Champollion’s deciphering of hieroglyphs 47 Lot-et-Garonne Aquitaine Bournel: ‘Lacastagnal’, Martial Besse’s Jardin des Supplices is no more Fumel: sham ruin on roundabout Hautefage-la-Tour, D103: hexagonal 16thC tower, half ruined, and turned into watertower in 1950 Monbahus: Butte de la Vierge tower Monflanquin, roundabout N21: new sham ruin Gothic window Nérac, Garenne park: Grotto, kiosk, chalet Nérac, Av. Plaisance, aquaresort Lud’O Parc: fake ruins in pool area St-Front-sur-Lémance: Jean Prosper Gillis’s fantasy garden with cement animals, 1968-74 48 Lozère Languedoc-Rousillon Ste-Enimie, Causse de Sauveterre: O J Pillet’s Utopix, from 1979 49 Maine-et-Loire Pays de la Loire Allonnes, Maupassant de Bois Savary park: trellis architecture, columns, tents, sham ruin Angers, rue de Ballée: Damascus gate, Jerusalem sepulchre; Mgr Henri Potard’s 1935 copies Breil, castle of Lathan park: hunting turret, subterranian labyrinth to Love temple, gloriette Breil, Lathan castle park: subterranean labyrinth to Love temple, gloriette, shooting tower, tower/chapel Brissac-Quincé castle: Japanese bridge, opera theatre, Doric temple mausoleum with apse, 1806, 1911 Challain-la-Potherie, at castle: 1875 neo-Gothick Tour de Monplaisir, sham ruins, icehouse etc. Dénezé-sous-Doué: cave aux sculptures (sculpted grotto) Doué-la-Fontaine,rue des Perrières, mason Bernard Roux’s troglodyte house: fantasy garden Fougeré, Rue de Montigué: Henri Travert’s 16m-high Eiffel Tower of 7500 horse shoes, 1982 Louerre, in the woods east of L: Beauregard’s tower, 1870, for spying on rival Ernest Grignon Maulévrier: Parc Oriental St Georges-des-Sept-Voies: Jacques Warminski’s ‘L’Orbière’, subterranean spaces, theatre St-Hilaire-St-Florent, Pierre et Lumière: subterranean miniature architecture in tufa Ste-Gemmes-sur-Loire: Chateaubriant estate: rotunda temple on icehouse, octagonal pavilion, 18thC Trélazé, place des Tellières: cute half-slated tapering octagonal watertower with spire on rafters 50 Manche Basse-Normandie Cherbourg, public gardens: ruin of Abbaye du Voeu, bandstand Cherbourg, Emmanuel Liais park: observatory Cherbourg, Roche Fauconnière botanical garden: artificial grotto 1870 Coutances, jardin des plantes: obelisk etc. Martinvast castle: eyecatcher obelisk with windows, 19thC Moon-sur-Elle, 2 rue du Moulin: Ian Frazer’s water grotto not found Pontorson, Place de la Gare/rue du Dr Bailleul: rustic watertower c. 1900 Roncey: patriarch Auguste Letenneur’s mausoleum St-Côme-du-Mont, Bellenau castle: folly tower Siouville, 11 rue des Frères Frémine: M. Clément’s shell house Tourlaville, Ravalet castle: large grotto wall in greenhouse 1850 etc. 51 Marne Champagne-Ardenne Châlons-en-Champagne, 5 place St-Jean: rebuilt pavillon d’octroi of 1825, one of pair. Châlons-en-Champagne, Les Jards: kiosk, wooden folly Épernay, place Hugues Plomb: pious portal of 1540 St-Martin church, 1909 moved as arch Épernay, 63 Av. de Champagne: Castellane tower 1903-1905 Épernay, 20 Av. de Champagne: orangery, 1807 Épernay, 7bis Av. de Champagne, townhall park: round Love temple on rockery grotto, 1870 Épernay, rue de Comte de Lambertye, horticultural park: grotto, rockwork, c. 1880 Épernay, 18 Av. de Champagne, garden of Moët & Chandon: 19thC grotto, rockeries, rustic cement Reims, Bd Louis Roederer, P Schneiter’s garden: Trianon, E Redon’s waterfall, grotto 1918

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Tours-sur-Marne, place de la Mairie: Chinese bandstand, c. 1900 Trois-Fontaines, Abbey park: ruins, icehouse, grotto at river source Verzenay, rue du Phare: sham lighthouse, 1909 Vitry-le-François, place du Maréchal Leclerc: Porte du Pont of 1748, razed 1938, rebuilt 1985 52 Haute-Marne Champagne-Ardenne Andelot-Blancheville, Septfontaines abbey: old (1123) and newer (1886) architectural elements Beurville: town-hall with Roman temple front, the lavoir hiding in the plinth Bourbonne-les-Bains, behind town hall: artifial grotto Bourbonne-les-Bains, place des Bains: former spa fountain pavilion, 1867 Bourbonne-les-Bains, casinopark: vestige sham Gallo-Roman ruins, 19thC Brevoines, dry-stone snail mount, dry-stone amphitheatre for choir practice, by choirboys, 19thC Buzon, chapelle de Chardonville and largest snail mount, built in dry-stone c. 1850 as part-time jobs Chamouilley, rue de la Fontaine: dovecote with lantern, garden pavilion, vestige of grotto et alia Chamouilley, 27, rue de la Forge Haute: DIY-architecture of old stones maison de pierre

Cirey-sur-Blaise castle: belvedere tower Cohons, rue du Mont, Vergentière castle park: grotto, nympheum, belvedere/snail mounts, 1808 Cohons, 5 rue Varinot, Silière castle: jardin anglais with drystone walls, rivulet and tufière, c. 1850 Cohons, signposted Jardin des Escargots de Pierre: two mastaba-style stone snail mounts Échenay, Grand Rue: unique lavoir with clock tower 1857, reconstructed 2004 Eurville-Bienville, Eurville castle: dovecote, orangery, 19thC Hortes: Fontaine Virey, 6-column Love Temple model, 1841 Langres, Blanchefontaine park: classical alcove-grotto around source, 18thC Langres, opposite cathedral: octagonal music kiosk cum public conveniences, c. 1900 Langres, Fauburg de Buzon, drystone snail mount Prez-sous-Lafauche, along RN74: Zoo de Bois Brachés, from 1963 Roôcourt-la-Cote, north of: dry-stone snail mount at 1857 naive rough-stone Ste-Bologne chapel Roöcourt-la-Cote, rue de l’Orme, direction Viéville: Serlian lavoir St-Dizier, 476-478 Av. de la République: Marcel Dhièvre’s Petit Paris Trémilly, village square: 2007 octagonal wellhead with putto, after old design Trémilly, along D960: Rozierre mausoleum and shelter, 1874 and 1877 Trémilly, castle park: grand stairs, triangular Moses well, two arches, cistern in shape of dovecote Vignory: lavoir with columns and classical entablature all around, 1833 53 Mayenne Pays de la Loire Cossé-le-Vivien: Robert Tatin’s ‘La Frenouse’, fantasy house and museum, from 1962 Craon, castle: tower, pavilion 54 Meurthe-et-Moselle Lorraine Bernécourt, Grand Rue: classical basilica lavoir, 1866 Crusnes: iron mine owner’s De Wendel unique iron Ste-Barbe’s church 1939 Gerbéviller castle park: grotto/nympheum, Louis XIII pavilion, ice-house, hunter’s gate, Palatin chapel Laneuville-devant-Nancy, rue Lucien Galtier, Montaigu castle: orangery, dovecote, chapel, grotto Liverdun, Laflie castle: watertower/belvedere c. 1900 Liverdun, domaine des Eaux Bleues (garenne): sunlounge, icehouse, fountain, grotto Lunéville castle park: remnants of famous bosquets, grotto, rock-work, kiosk, columns Malzéville, rue du Lion d’Or: Charles Cournault’s Moorish palace Le Douëra,1856 Malzéville, 75 rue Pasteur, La Cure-d’Air-Trianon: grotto, rustic cement, art-nouveau iron, 1900s Malzéville, 24, rue Barres: tower Moutiers: no fantasy garden found (was in Gwyn’s list) Nancy, 38 rue du Sergent-Blandan, Art Nouveau museum: Aquarium pavilion 1904, rustic cement, grave Nancy, Ste-Marie park: kiosk, Alsace house, grotto and rockery Nancy, Olry park: wooden chalet, rustic cement bridges Nancy, Quai Claude Lorrain, Blondlot park: rustic cement Thorey-Lyautey castle: marshal L.H.G. Lyautey monument (Rabat mausoleum parts) Vaudémont, Sion hill: Barrès monument, copy of cemetery lantern Fenioux (17), 1928 Vaudémont, Sion Hill belvedere: rough stone rotunda with saint on lantern, 1895 by seminary students

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55 Meuse Lorraine Ancerville, rue de la Fontaine: large 1790 boat-shaped lavoir with first-floor drying Andernay: Neptune fountain, 1840 Andernay: Neptune fountain, 1840 Bar-le-Duc, town hall park: love temple 1810 Bar-le-Duc, rue de la Piscine: neo-Gothic tower/chapel and pelican grave at cemetery. Bar-le-Duc, Maréchal Foch square: Michaud bicycle monument Dieue-sur-Meuse, Les Monthairons castle: 2 chapels, wooden fishing hut Douaumont, Fort, next to ossuary: 2006 Arab-style memorial pavilion for Musulmen, killed in 1916 Haironville, Varenne castle: gloriette, Chinese pavilion/dovecote Hattonchâtel: refurbished castle and village, neo-Romanesque lavoir 1920s Houdelaincourt, rue Principal: classical semicircular lavoir with sculpture, latin text, vases, 1851 Lacroix-sur-Meuse, main street: classical lavoir with sculptures, and four fontaines, 1840, Th. Oudet Mauvages, place de la Halle: Fontaine du Déo, lavoir with Egyptian god and details, 1831, Th. Oudet Les Monthairons near Dieue-sur-Meuse, castle domain: two chapels, wooden fishing hut Nettancourt, Grange aux Champs park: nympheum, pavilion, rustic fishery Neuville-sur-Ornain, D122: large cut-stone lavoir public 1855, now party hall Sampigny, Clos-Poincaré, Raymond Poincaré’s garden: kiosk, grotto, rustic cement Sauvigny, Grande Rue: classical lavoir with sculpted pediment and Greek goddess, 1839 P.Thiébaut Triaucourt, 10 rue de Verdun: neo-classical fountain-monument 1834 Verdun D913: muslim monument for WW I warriors, 1938 Vignot, place Charles de Gaulle: Serlian-fronted lavoir classical putto on fountain, 19thC Villotte-devant-Louppy: cow fountain, 1903 56 Morbihan Bretagne Auray, Kerléano park: rotonde with lantern on cupola as mauseulm of Georges Cadoudal, 1852 Auray, Tour du Loch: belvedere tower 1724, 1823 higher, with outside stairs Baud, Quinipily park: Venus on top of classical fountain Lizio, La Ville Stéphant: poète ferailleur Robert Coudray’s museum and imaginary universe Ste-Anne-d’Auray: large pavilion-mausoleum, covered pilgrim stairs Ste-Brigitte: Réon’s ‘Argondia’ (la Grotte Magique) is gone Sarzeau, Kerlevenan castle: Chinese pavilion, Love temple-turned-chapel in 1876 57 Moselle Lorraine Amnéville-les-Thermes, Av. de l'Europe: Villa Pompéi, Roman style baths Cocheren: Hansen’s fantasy garden (was in Gwyn’s list) not found Florange, château de Bétange: Chinese pavilion of wrought iron branches. Hayes castle: semi-circular belvedere, icehouse Manom, château de la Grange: ruin of Berthier de Sauvigny’s Algerian wing, 1830s Metz, rue d’Arsenal: pious portal Metz, Bd Poincaré: under Esplanade: Emperor fountain/grotto/nympheum, 1907 Metz, Bd Poincaré: opp. Esplanade, park Lac aux Cygnes: cascade, romantic sculpture in sham ruin Metz, Av. Robert Schumann: Porte Serpenoise, pious portal of city walls, 1852 turned triumphal arch Metz, 1, parvis des Droits-de-l’Homme: Centre Pompidou-Metz 2010, spire and umbrella roof Metz, Railway station: 1908 neo-Romanesque watertower for steam engines Metz, St-Symphorien lake along the E23: Japanese Torii from expo 1980s Phalsbourg, Brunnenthal: hermitage, washhouses Sarralbe, near arboretum: mayor baron De Schmidt’s St-Hubert hunting lodge in castle-shape 1869 58 Nièvre Bourgogne Decize, Guy Coquille sq.: Guy Coquille clock tower, refurbished 1849 Magny-Cours, Les Pitiaux: Ecovillage Centre Africain Reconstitué, African village-museum Menou castle: pagode, pyramid, mastaba Nevers, La Rocherie castle/hotel: Moresque gazebo Nevers, Place du Palais: Porte du Diable, 16thC pious portal Des Bordes de Urzy castle, moved 1928 Nuars, rue Colas: castellated neo-Gothic round watertower with belvedere balcony around, late 19thC

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59 Nord Nord-Pas-de-Calais Assevent, place François Mitterand: hexagonal 1-legged kiosque à danser with pagoda roof, 2007 Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Parc de la Rotonde: La Rotonde, 1-legged kiosque à danser with roof, 1890 Bailleul, rue de la Fontaine: concrete eclectic castelated watertowers, 1921 and 1961 Beaufort, place de la Mairie: 1-legged kiosque à danser, c. 1900, moved from Maubeuge in 2008 Bondues, château du Vert Bois: 2 Chinese pavilions, chapel, Flora pavilion, lodge, dovecote, orangerie Cambrai, public garden: grotto Cartigny, place Fernand Wargnie, round 1-legged kiosque à danser with roof, 1920 Condé-sur-l’Escaut, l’hermitage or Solitude park: tholos, Chinese pavilion, 18thC Cysoing abbey: Pyramide de Fontenoy, triangular Rococo obelisk 1750 Dourlers, place Stroh: 1-legged kiosque à danser with roof, c. 1900 Dunkerque harbour: classical Risban lighthouse of 1842 Dunkerque, rue de l’Écluse de Bergues: Moorish bathhouse of 1896 Fresnes-sur-Escaut, municipal park: Love temple, hunters’ meeting place Fresnes-sur-Escaut: sham castle redundant mining tower 1823 Grand-Fayt, near church: hexagonal 1-legged kiosque à danser with roof, 1885 Hellemmes-Lille, town hall park: kiosk, bridge, dovecote Jeumont, rue de Solre-sur-Sambre: rustic cement house, 1897 Lez-Fontaine, place du village: octagonal iron garden kiosk from Sains-du-Nord, turned dancing 1952 Lille, Gare Lille-Europe, hall metro station: Espace Piranesien (trompe l’oeil architecture) 1995 Lille, Parc de la Citadelle, Les Poussins: station mini-train trompe l’oeil copy Gare de Lille Flandres Lille, Jardin Vauban: rustic dairy/deer-house, grotto, 1865 Lille, rue Van Hende: neo-Romanesque bulky fort-like watertower Lille, St Maurice, town hall or Droulers park: sham grotto, kiosk, 1865 Lille, rue Solferino: 1879 classical-Moresque glass domed exhibition building Rameau Palace Petit-Fayt, place du village: round 1-legged kiosque à danser with lantern, c. 1900 Roubaix, Barbieux park: grottoes, rockeries Sains-du-Nord, Pont de Sains castle park: Talleyrand’s Love temple Steenwerck: Arthur Vanabelle’s fantasy garden along A25 Trélon, place Jean-Jaurès: hexagonal 1-legged kiosque à danser with roof, 1881 Valenciennes, Place Verte: 1920 43m-high cut-stone-clad concrete watertower on tall arches Wargnies-le-Grand: Xavier Delvallée’s mausoleum in tumulus, 1925 60 Oise Picardie Betz, castle park: temple of Friendship, sham ruin, c. 1780 for Princesse de Monaco Boulogne-la-Grasse: castle and park Breteuil, castle park: grotto-icehouse, pavilion Chamant, Plessis-Chamant estate: pump house (tower of the winds) not found Chamant, in Halatte wood north of Senlis: Albert Menier’s iron watertower with belvedere, 1895 Chantilly castle: hameau, maison de Silvie, Venus temple etc Chantilly, 17 rue de la Faisanderie, Potager des Princes: architectural trelliswork, theatre Compiègne forest, route Eugénie: hunting pavilion 1861 Coye-la-Forêt, château de la Reine Blanche Creil, île St-Maurice: domed square pavilion, love temple, built with left-over stone of bridge, 1750 Creil, park in Francois Mitterand square: little guard tower Crépy-en-Valois, Géresmes park: grotto-icehouse, chapel remnants, little guardhouses, dolmen Ermenonville: park Jean-Jacques Rousseau, follies, writer’s den, Rousseau Island Gerberoy, on remains of castle, impressionist Henri le Sidaner’s garden: 6-columns love temple 1908 Gouvieux, route Chaumont-Chantilly: concrete fake medieval tower Mortefontaine: 2 parks with follies, too private Ognon, domaine: eyecatcher/boathouse, sham temple ruin, grand stairs, two gloriettes. private Pierrefonds: Viollet-le Duc’s imposing recreated 19thC castle Raray castle: two false porticoes/arcades with ‘hunt’ along top, Diana’s gate Rhuis, Catillon hill: belvedere/love temple Wavignies: André Martin’s fantasy garden is no more

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61 Orne Basse-Normandie l’Aigle, 44 place Fulbert de Beina, Musée Louis Verrière: Petit Lourdes etc. Cerisy-Belle-Étoile: romantic ruin of Châlcon du Mont Cérisy tower Le Champ-de-la-Pierre: castle park, temple, obelisk, grottoes etc. Malétable, Le Bourg, N D de la Salette: lighthouse-like decorated church tower, 1866-72 St Ouen-sur-Iton, place de la Concorde: Désiré Guillemare’s lighthouse ‘Sollerot’ St-Quentin-les-Chardonnets: André Hardy’s Extraordinary Garden, art brut from 1971 Sérigny, Roger Martin du Gard’s Le Tertre castle: philosophy temple on rock grotto, belvedere turret Villers-en-Ouche castle: follies 62 Pas-de-Calais Nord-Pas-de-Calais Arras, Gouverneur and Minelle gardens: pavilion in water Berck-Plage, 152 rue Émile Lavezzari: Joseph Meyer’s outsider garden with turrets and castellations Béthune, public gardens: artificial grotto, kiosk Boulogne-sur-Mer, place Mariette: pyramid monument, replica Egyptian boat Boulogne-sur-Mer, Quai Gambetta roundabout: obelisk, sand, palms for birthplace A.E.Mariette Calais, Rue du Général Margueritte: watertower, recently encircled with stairs to belvedere platform Condette, 1 rue de la Source: fake Tudor Hardelot castle on 13thC ruins 1865, English connections La Couture, rue du Touret: ‘poet of cement’ Alphonse Wallart’s house Ruitz: Charles Pequeur’s Snow White’s garden, reliefs and statuettes, from 1968 Ruitz, cemetery: sham mausoleum by Charles Pecqueur St-Omer, jardin publique: kiosk, rocks cascade with (remnant of) thatched cabin Séricourt, Yves Gosse de Gorre’s gardens: architectural topiary, 1985 Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, Av. des Phares: early 20thC Swiss village Wissant, rue du Calvaire des Marins: Typhonium, artists’ house in Egyptian temple shape, 1891 63 Puy de Dôme Auvergne La Bourboule, Av. d’Angleterre, Fenestre park: first thermal spa for children La Tour Mysterieuse Chanonat, château de la Bâtisse: grottoes, cascades, labyrinth Clermont-Ferrand, Henri Lecoq garden: arch with turret, 1863 Clermont-Ferrand, aire de Suchères at A72: A & P Poiret’s broken column, 1984, sham prehistoric bits Effiat castle: grotto/nympheum, 17thC Issoire, Grange Fort castle: 1780 sham medieval castle turned camping setting Puy-Guillaume: pyramid on roundabout in D906, 2008 64 Pyrénées-Atlantiques Aquitaine Ascain: Ferdinand Earle’s mock-African concrete folie, 1930, now museum Bardos, Butte de Miremont: 2003 Belvedere de Miremont with outside stairs Cambo-les-Bains, Edmond Rostand’s villa Arnaga: orangerie, belvedere, pergola pavilions, 1906 Hendaye: Moresque villa 1870 and casino Croisière 1884, d’Abbadia castle 1870 Violet-le-Duc Navailles-Angos: watertower, 2009 painted trompe l’oeil as bannered medieval donjon 65 Hautes-Pyrénées Midi-Pyrénées Cauterets, cascade de Mauhourat: grotte around source, with faux-bois rustic gate, mid-19thC Tarbes, rue Achille Jubinal: Massey museum, copy of Cairo palace, minaret observation tower, 1850 66 Pyrénées-Orientales Languedoc-Rousillon Bages, 4 Av. de la Méditerranée: Palais des Naifs, 1954, now Casa Carrere 67 Bas-Rhin Alsace Boersch: Puits aux Six Seaux, renaissance well cover with three columns and scroll work, 1617 Donon, col du, RD392: museum-temple see Grandfontaine Dorlisheim, Bugatti castle: gateway ruin Grandfontaine, col du Donon, RD392: museum in shape of rough sham Roman temple, 1869 Haut-Barr, Brotschenberg: Tour de Brotch belvedere, 1899 Obernai, main street: Puits aux Six Seaux, elaborate replaced well cover with three columns, 1579 Saverne: small sham castle watertower 1891 Strasbourg, Av. de l’Europe, Orangerie park: Love temple (moved from other park), peasant’s cottage Wasselonne: Alfred Melkes’s fantasy garden is gone Woerth, route d’Elsasshausen: belvedere-monument 1913

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68 Haut-Rhin Alsace Colmar: columns on Isle des Demoiselles Colmar, Av. Raymond-Poincaré: neo-Gothic blind-arched watertower, 1884-86 Mulhouse, 16 rue de Ventron: Moorish villa 1901 Rouffach, Isenbourg castle: Xavier Ostermeyer’s belvedere tower for his Swiss wife, 1894 Sickert: musée de la Doller is gone; remnants are in the Ecomuseum near Mulhouse Ungersheim nr Mulhouse, Ch. Grosswald, Ecomusée d’Alsace: some naïve structures

69 Rhône Rhône-Alpes Caluire-et-Cuire, 17 Montée des Forts: Maison Rivette: nympheum, , 1738-40 Civrieux d’Azergues, 51 Ch. de Palayer: Charles Billy’s Jardin de Nous Deux, model buildings, fr. 1975 Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or, rue de Trèves Pâques: cute 2-storey stair-well turret Eveux, Ste Marie de la Tourette priory, Tourette castle: icehouse, temple ruins, grotto, tower Lyon: (CitéCréation’s) trompe l’oeil murals everywhere, over 200 ! Lyon, Bd des États-Unis, musée urbain Tony Garnier: trompe l’oeuil architecture Lyon, Fourvière hill: observation tower, 1894 predecessor of Eiffel tower Lyon, Balmont La Duchère park: love temple 1870 Lyon, 87 Grande rue de la Croix-Rousse: Rosa Mir’s garden Neuville-sur-Saône, Ombreval castle park: grottto/nympheum 1636 St Cyr-au-Mont-d’Or, Mont Cindre: brother Damidot’s Hermit Garden: miniature grottoes, churches etc. St-Cyr-au-Mont-d’Or, 69 route du Mont Cindre: ‘Sieur’ Nesme’s rough double-helix tower, 1890 St-Romain-au-Mont-d’Or, rue de la République: Musée l’OrgAne, Demeure du Chaos, from 1999 St-Romain-au-Mont-d’Or, rue de la République: Marc Allardon’s Eden Garden, from 1999 Sathonay-Camp, roundabout west: sham façade La Porte Divisionnaire, of army camp Vaux-en-Beaujolais / Clochemerle: pissotières, spoof 1934 Vernaison, route de Givors: vestige of Cornevent pavilion Vernaison, 12 rue de la Fée des Eaux, Pierre Broche’s La Fée des Eaux park: menagerie, Naïades kiosk Vernaison, 770 Ch. des Gaupières, Broche’s villa Galatée: lac enchanté, grotto, pavilions, lavabo 70 Haute-Saône Franche-Comté Amblans-et-Velotte, rue du Lavoir: Lavoir Velotte, 19thC with stone well cupola on columns Arc-lès-Gray, Lamugnière park: orangery, Chinese pavilion, grotto, 1890 Beaujeu-St-Vallier: mairie-lavoir, Italian-casino-style by Louis Moreau, 1830 Belverne: washhouse La Grande Fontaine, Serlian and Moresque, 1868 J-B. Colard Bouhans-lès-Montbozon, rue de la Fontaine: classical round lavoir, 1835, Lebeuffe & Rehany Bouligny: classical puisard with Napoleon, separate from mairie-lavoir, 1840 Breurey-lès-Faverney, rue du Chêne: stone open air lavoir with railings and statue, 1867 Bucey-lès-Gy: mairie-lavoir with protruding triumphal arch, 1827 Louis Moreau Buthiers castle: Chinese pavilion (private) Confracourt, rue de l’Église: round lavoir with classical details, 1835, Lebeuffe & Rehany Dampièrre-sur-Salon: mairie-lavoir with protruding triumphal arch, 1828 Louis Moreau Éhuns, place C. E. Mathis: semicircular lavoir with pedimented fountain, 1877 Étuz, rue de la Fontaine: twin neo-classical temples for lavoir, 1842 by Pierre Marnotte Ferrières-lès-Scey: rue de la Prairie: crescent lavoir, stone and wood, 1827 Louis Moreau Fontenois-lès-Montbozon: Lavoir du Centre, round with zinc roof by Louis Well, 1828 Gray, rue Sauzay: lavoir 1825 from Mont-le-Franois, rebuilt for Gray tourist office 1972 Gy, Génin square (place du Lavoir): 12-sided fort-like cast cement lavoir, 1899 Gy, Grande rue: Grand’Fontaine, small Doric temple over source, 1836 Héricourt: Fontaine-lavoir du Savourot, crescent colonnades with central obelisk 1840 Igny, Rue de la Madeleine: lavoir with Tuscan columns and ‘accolade’ curves on lintel, c. 1850 Luxeuil-les-Bains, St Valbert: modern grotto at subterranean Ermitage Montbozon: crescent Fontaine-lavoir du Cygne, 1829, Louis Moreau, folly of the castle park Neuvelle-lès-la-Charité: lavoir with pillars and ‘accolade’ curves on lintel Oyrières, Grande Rue: Lavoir Sud, impluvium, double peristyle, separate puisoir, 1830 L. Moreau Ronchamps: stepped pyramid beside Notre Dame du Haut Semmadon, place de la Fontaine: round lavoir with classical details, 1844, Lebeuffe & Rehany

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Scey-sur-Saône, in garden town house along route: tower, c. 1900 Soing: 1:20 model of Eiffel tower, symbolising France at 1992 festive occasion Vantaux-et-Longevelle, rue de la Ruotte: semicircular lavoir with Serlian front, 19thC Villersexel, château de Grammont: ruins, tower 71 Saône-et-Loire Bourgogne Autun, near cathedral: 2-tier Fontaine St-Lazare, designed by Jean Goujon for King Henri II, 1543 Bresse-sur-Grosne: three lavoirs in different styles, by castle owner 1860s La Boulaye, Plaige castle: Tibetan monastery and temple of the 1000 Buddhas, pagoda, 1974 Chalon-sur-Saone, St-Laurent island, Tour du Doyenné, rebuilt 1928 La Clayette castle: Porte Levis 1912, old belvedere tower Cormatin castle park: round temple-aviary-belvedere in labyrinth, theatre de Verdure, 1992 Curbigny, château de Drée: Demoiselles tower, 18thC Damerey, along RN73: Roger Mercier’s château de Bresse et Castile Fontaines, St Hilaire hill: St Hilaire tower 1862 Mâcon, Vieux St-Vincent: since 1700s pious portal with towers Mercurey, route Chevron: 1768 Fontaine de Marjonzin pavilion, rebuilt 1988 Palinges, Digoine castle: Italian theatre, grotto Prissé, Monceau castle vineyards: Alphonse de Lamartine’s writer’s den, Pavillon des Girondins, 19thC

St-Point, Alphonse de Lamartine’s anglisised castle, and funeral chapel Sully, castle grounds: rustic wooden Polish washhouse, stone crown, icehouse etc 72 Sarthe Pays de la Loire Crannes-en-Champagne, Mirail castle garden: Roman column, gloriette 1987 Fyé, along RN138: Fernand Chatelain’s ’Jardin Humoristique’, 1965-1988 Poncé-sur-Le-Loir, 49 rue Principale, castle park: enormous sham ruins Terrasse Caroline, 1830 St-Maixent: chapel facade used for private two-storey lavoir 1876 Thorée-les-Pins: Emile Taugourdeau’s jardin zoologique, fantasy garden 73 Savoie Pays de la Loire Aix-les-Bains, 18, chemin du Cluset: St-Simond tower belvedere 1830, rustic kiosk with lantern Aix-les-Bains, Lac du Bourget: sham-medieval railway tunnel entrance Brison-St-Innocent, sham-medieval railway tunnel entrances N & S 1858 Chambéry, Bd de la Colonne: Général de Boigne’s elephants fountain 1838 Chambéry, Marcon square: 1912 pious portal of cinema, later printing-works, now rotunda fountain Chambéry, pl. Card. Garrone: Saint-François-de-Sales cathedral trompe l’oeil Gothic interior, 19thC Chambéry, Îlot de l’Horloge: lots of good trompe l’oeil painting, 20thC 74 Haute-Savoie Pays de la Loire Allonzier-la-Caille: redundant suspension bridge with castellated towers, arches, 1839 St-Gervais, Joseph Duffour’s shelled mountain, from 1963 Thonon-les-Bains, Av. Corzent, 1930s Gothic Monjoux castle, 1943 dovecote Vaulx, lieu-dit Lagnat, A and N Moumen’s Secret Gardens, Eastern-looking folly-builings jumble 75 Ville de Paris (- Arrondissements in Roman numerals) Île-de-France I Châtelet square: Palm fountain with Victory and sphinxes, 1859 I Joachim-du-Bellay sq.: Innocents fountain, former 1549 Royal Entry VIP loggia II passage du Caire, Caire square: Egyptian style reliefs, 1798 II 44 rue de Caire: Egyptian decoration III opposite 122 Av. des Rosiers: Egyptian heads

IV 31 rue Quincampois: trompe l’oeil house IV 18 rue des Mathurins: Moorish house V Jardin des Plantes: Edme Verniquet’s belvedere (Buffon’s gloriette) VI Square Desruelles, side of Porte de Sèvres, sham facade from 1900 World Expo VI Parc du Luxembourg: Medici fountain, moved and reconstructed 1862 VII rue de Babylone: pagode VII Champs de Mars: arches, cascade, grotto VII Champ de Mars: masonic temple-like monument, for 200 years of Rights of Man 1989 VII 78 rue de Lille, Beauharnais house: Egyptian details 1907

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VII 52 rue de Sèvres, Egyptian or Fellah Fountain, 1806 VIII 10 Av. des Champs-Élysées, Nouvelle France Garden: Swiss valley, World Expo 1900 VIII Parc Monceau: rotunda, pyramide, temples, bridge, grotto, graves etc VIII rue de Courcelles: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux’s barrière de Chartres, 1790 VIII rue de Courcelles-rue Monceau: pagode house IX 11bis rue Ballu, Blémont hotel: winter garden with rock wall, faux bois; grotto, 19thC X 170 Blds Magenta-de la Chapelle: Egyptian cinema Louxor 1922s, reopening 2013 XI place de la Nation: Ledoux’s barrière du Trône, 1785 XI St-Eloi square: whale fountain, 1982 XI 50 Bd Voltaire: Bataclan theatre, 1865 chinoiserie, partly changed XII route de Ceinture-du-lac-Daumesnil: Vincennes Pagode XII Bois de Vincennes: grotto, temple of Love, Indo-Chinese corner, ‘pyramide’ XII Parc de Bercy: 1990s park with snail mount as belvedere XIII rue de la Glacière: no nympheum found (see FiF;129) XIV place Denfert-Rochereau: Ledoux’s barrière de Denfert, 1785 XIV Parc de Montsouris: observatory, copy of Tunisian palace 1867 (gone) XIV Montparnasse: cemetery XV 69 rue Castagnary: sham lighthouse on sham cliff, 2001 XV 33bis rue de la Convention, Square Paul Gilot: rustic cement kiosk with pagoda roof 1926 XV pont de Grenelles: statue of Liberty copy 1889 XV Parc Citroën: modern park XV Parc George Brassens: pious portal with slaughterhouse tower XVI Av. des Tilleuls, 12-rue Pierre-Guérin: pavilion in former park Boufflers XVI 3-6 Bd. Beauséjour: Russian isbas, from World Expo 1867 XVI Bagatelle park: rocks, temple, Japanese water garden, belvedere, pagode, gloriette XVI Bois de Boulogne: cascade, rockeries, tower XVIII Montmartre cemetery: Egyptian facade along Blds de Rochechouart-Chapelle XVIII 11 J-P Clément sq.: octagonal Montmartre watertower fountain/pavilion 1836 XIX Parc la Villette: Bernard Tschumi ‘follies’ XIX 6-8 Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad: Ledoux’s Rotonde de la Villette, 1785 XIX Parc des Buttes Chaumont: sham mountain, temple, grotto, 1864 XX Père Lachaise cemetery XX place Martin Nadaud: cement tree-house 76 Seine-Maritime Haut-Normandie Allouville-Bellefosse: chapels in oak tree Boos, rue du Colombier: octagonal dovecote St-Amand abbey, decorated by M. Abaquesne, 1520 Bosc-Roger-sur-Buchy: Jardin des Valerianes, English garden without follies Cauville-sur-Mer, castle domain: 16thC round dovecote in black-and-white geometrical flint patterns Dieppedalle-Croiset, 18 quai Gustave-Flaubert: Gustave Flaubert’s writer’s pavilion Étretat, chemin de St-Clair: sham castle Le Donjon, 1862 Forges-les-Eaux, Av. des Sources: pious portal Le Havre see Ste-Adresse Moulineaux, rue P. Gosselin, near Robert the Devil castle, 1901 sham ruin monument ‘Qui vive?’ Rouen, 29 rue des Sapins: fantasy garden Rouen: clock towers, maréographes Rouen, Jardin des Plantes: orangery and pavilion, 19thC Rouen, Quai de Paris: Porte Guillaume-Lion of 1749, moved 1948 as pious portal Rouen, park Porte Guillaume-Lion: church remnants; moved monumental baroque wall fountain Rouen, place du Gaillardbois: pious portal of customs office, reinstalled as war monument in 1963 Ste Adresse, rue Ste Adresse, villa Maritime/Dufayel: two floor grotto, 1890 Ste Adresse, rue Charles Alexandre le Sueur: sugarloaf monument 1822 Ste Adresse, 1 rue Cochet: large red-brick mock castle Porte de Burgos Ste-Adresse, Manoir de Vitanval: Paul-Michel Thibault’s Solitude pavilion, 1783 Ste Adresse, rue General de Gaulle: Moresque house, erstwhile pavilion of villa Masquelier 1876

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Ste Adresse, rue Charles-Alexandre Lesueur: Villa Nordique, 1900, from wood trade exhibition Sotteville-lès-Rouen, 13 rue Philippe-Lanou: shard decorations on house Tourville-sur-Arques, Miromesnil castle: 18thC chapel Varengeville-sur-Mer, Parc Floral de Moutiers: Lutyens’ arts and crafts house Varengeville-sur-Mer, route de la Cayenne, Manoir d’Ango: large round decorated dovecote, 1532 77 Seine-et-Marne Île-de-France Achère-la-Forêt: Chomo’s Village d’Art Préludien

Boulancourt, D103A, Augerville castle: sham medieval town gate with walls, spanning road, 1928 Bouleurs: 1863 ornamental wall as protection for lavoir Bussy-St-George, D406: Génitoy dovecote/belvedere on classical entrance farm, ca 1800 Bussy-St-Martin, Rentilly estate: pavilions, orangery, Turkish bathhouse Champeaux, château d’Aunoy: first English garden: follies Champs-sur-Marne castle park: fountain, trellis work copy of 18thC salon de madame, orangery Champs-sur-Marne: roundabout pyramids Champs-sur-Marne, Noisiel castle: pavillon de garde Chessy, rue de la Marne / old chemin de Meaux: Jacques Servières sculpture garden Chevry-Cossigny: roothouse Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, rue Mr et Mme Bengel, Constant Coquelin’s artists’ retreat: follies 1905 Coulommiers: shell grotto, ruins Cramayel (Moissy): Fontaine’s obelisk with golden ball Crécy-la-Chapelle, 6 rue du Marché: belfry built for clock and bell of demolished townhall, 1865 Ferrière-en-Bois, château de Ferrière: rotunda, grave, half-follies Fontainebleau palace: grotto, island pavilion Fontainebleau forest: belvedere Tour Dénécourt Fontainebleau, place du General de Gaulle: pious portal 1546, rebuilt entrance of Ferrara house 1832 Fontainebleau, Bd Magenta: pious portal 1625, rebuilt entrance of Tambour House c. 1900 Fontenay-Trésigny: aeroplane/restaurant Forfry: pious portal of 13thC Boissy castle, since 1746 3-storeys wall of entrance tower Forges, rue du Cimetière: 1860 watertower enveloped in two rows of round arches between buttresses La Grande-Paroisse: Queen’s obelisk (column), 1725 Gretz-Armainvilliers: 2 pavilions Guignes castle: tower Lizy-sur-Ourcq, Place Harrouard, cemetery: necropolis of circus families, from 1897 Luzard, Noisiel, Rond-point des 4 Pavés: over-growing watertower by Christian de Portzamparc, 1976 Mauperthuis, Montesquiou park: pyramid, grotto, sham fort, tomb Moissy-Cramayel: Fontaine’s obelisk with golden ball Nesles (la Gilberde), fantastic architecture house Gaston Gatinet is stripped beyond recognition Noisiel: Menier chocolate factory, ferme ornée (now theatre) Pringy, town hall park: grotto, icehouse, kiosk, bridge Pringy, Montgermont estate: Love temple, sham ruin Varennes-sur-Seine, Sauvagerie park: modern Anglo-Chinese pavilions Vaux-le-Vicomte, le Nôtre garden: Hercules, bridge, cascade, grotto-wall Villeneuve-le-Comte, rte de Meaux: hunting rendezvous obelisk with water & fire symbols on top, 1735 Vulaines-sur-Seine, Demeter park: ‘fabriques’, no follies 78 Yvelines Île-de-France Aigremont, (Chambourcy), Désert de Retz: broken column, tent, pyramid-icehouse etc Arnouville-les-Mantes, parc du Rosay: kiosk, grotto (private), see Rosay Bonnelles: Gothic Love temple on bridge Bonnières-sur-Seine, rue de la République: pious portal, three arches of 1610 portal Beuron castle, 1975 Bougival, Machine de Marly aka Dufrayer machine on island, 19thC Bougival, quai G.Clemenceau: temple for steam engine waterpumps for Marly & Versaille, used 1825-37 Bougival, 1, rue de Monrival 27, quai G.Clemenceau: Blois pavilion 18thC Bougival, 16 Rue Yvan Tourgueneff: Turgenev’s datcha Bougival, Parc de la Jonchère: Love temple

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Bougival, Parc de la Du Barry: Love temple La Celle-St-Cloud, place du Comte-de-Bendern: pious portal, facade of 17thC Beauregard castle, 1950 La Celle-St-Cloud, rte des Puits: Butard pavilion, hunting lodge for Louis XV by A-J Gabriel, 1750-51 Chambourcy: Désert de Retz: broken column, tent, pyramid-icehouse etc Chambourcy, subterranean Aqueduc de Retz: two classical entrances, reservoir, 1686 and 1732 Chatou: large Italianate nympheum by J-G. Soufflot, 1777 Le Chesnay, ornamental hexagonal tower dovecote with witch’s hat roof, 19thC Les Clayes-sous-Bois, allée Henri Langlois, parc Diane: two corner towers of burnt-down 19thC castle Conflans-Ste-Honorine, Parc municipal du Prieuré: 19thC dovecote, serre, orangerie, cascade etc Dampierre, rue Pierreuse: Iron house for Madagascar from 1889 World Expo, grotto in garden Dampierre, castle park: Le Nôtre pavilion 17thC Élancourt, Bd A. Malraux: France Miniature = 117 buildings in 1:30 scale in landscaped garden Émancé, Sauvage castle park/zoo: 19thC aviary, grotto, belvedere, cottage Épône, park: temple of David Épône, roundabout in D130 near E5/A13: sham dolmen Jambville, castle park: sham ruined Greek temple, icehouse and other follies Jouy-en-Josas, 5, rue de la Libération, inside Grand Château: shell-covered vaults nympheum 17thC Louveciennes: music pavilion, icehouse Maisons-Lafitte: Francois Mansart nympheum, 17thC Maisons-Lafitte, 30 Av. Pascal: facade of Wilkinson’s 1878 World Expo ceramics pavilion Mantes-la-Jolie: Marcel Landreau’s moving garden (in Gwyn’s list) is gone Medan, Emile Zola’s house: pavilion of Friends Le Mesnil-St-Denis, 7 Av. des Bruyères: Skit, Russian Orthodox monastery Montfort-l’Amaury, rue de Versailles, château de Groussay: Charles de Beistegui’s park Montfort-l’Amaury, Anne de Bretagne tower, romanticised vestige of castle of c. 1500 Le Perrey-en-Yvelines, rue de la Martinerie, jardins de Sonja: pagode, kiosk, pergolas Poissy: Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoy with solarium roof terrace Poissy, rue Général de Gaulle: pavillon d’octroi 1832 (tower of the winds) Poissy, rue de l’Enclos de l’Abbaye: eight-sided Chinese kiosk, 1875, in private grounds Le Port-Marly, Marly-le-Roy: château d’If (at Monte Cristo’s castle) Rambouillet castle: Queen’s Dairy, thatched shell cottage, grotto Rosay castle: folly ensemble 18thC and 19thC, nympheum etc. (private) Rosny-sur-Seine, Duc du Sully’s castle park: Love temple-nympheum Rosny-sur-Seine, Châtillon estate Belvedere: kiosk from 1900 World Expo St-Germain-en-Laye castle: Le Nôtre garden, pavilion, nympheum, grotto, belvedere (view) St-Germain-en-Laye, subterranean Aqueduc de Retz: two classical entrances, 1686 St-Germain-en-Laye, château du Val: icehouse, grottoes St-Germain-en-Laye, Le Pecq: roothouse St-Quentin-en-Yvelines: pyramid, Ricardo Boffil’s new town Les Arcades du Lac St-Remy-l’Honoré, route d’Yte: Chinese pleasure garden Yili, 2004 Septeuil, see Rosay Thoiry, castle: Adrian Fisher maze with bridges Versailles: formal French garden of Louis XIV Versailles, Petit Trianon park: temples, grottoes, tower, hameau etc. Versailles, Balbi park: belvedere on top of large grotto Versailles, Countess of Provence park: dairy-dovecote Versailles, Av. de Paris: pair of classical pavillons d’octroi, 1824 Versailles, 111 Av. de Paris, Chauchard park: hexagonal music pavilion Versailles, Bd. du Roi: pair of classical pavillons d’octroi, 1824 Versailles, Montreuil, Madame Elisabeth park: grotto Le Vésinet, Av. des Pages: rockery; 122 Bd des États-Unis : roothouse Le Vésinet, Lac Supérieur: remnant of concrete sham ruin/watertower, 1856-60 Wideville: nympheum 1630s

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79 Deux-Sèvres Poitou-Charantes Bressuire, place du Millénaire: fountain with Moorish mosaics, from exhibition 1995 Oiron castle: Patrimoine et Art Contemporain museum 80 Somme Picardie Abbeville, 13 rue Josse Van Robais, 18thC Folie de Bagatelle: hunting pavilion Abbeville, near Stanislas Gate: former 17thC Ursulines convent, since 1940 pious portal Amiens, 480 rue de St-Maurice: landscaped cemetery De la Madeleine Amiens, place du Château d’eau: watertower with belvedere, 1751 Amiens, Alphonse Fiquet sq.: 1952 residential concrete Perret tower, light cube on top 2005 Beaucourt-en-Santerre, slender turret in front of castle Corbie, former Corbie abbey: gate to courtyard since Revolution pious portal Courcelles-sur-Moyencourt castle: stone grotto, tower Rambures castle: 18thC outbuildings, chapel Senarpont, Jardins de Ly: dry Japanese garden Thiepval: Ulster tower memorial, after Helen’s Tower at Clandeboye (Co Down), 1921 81 Tarn Midi-Pyrénées Brens: peculiar pinnacled dovecote 1848 Castres, Parc de Gourjade: 1834 watertower with castellated neo-Gothic gazebo gallery around base Gaillac, Foucaud park: reading paavilion, 17thC Palleville, Las Touzeilles castle: 19thC Italianate bathhouse-watertower under hexagonal gazebo 82 Tarn-et-Garonne Midi-Pyrénées Brens: peculiar dovecote 1848 Caumont: watertower disguised as belvedere tower by J.J.Kugel’s trompe l’oeil Coutures: watertower disguised as belvedere tower by J.J.Kugel’s trompe l’oeil Gaillac, Foucaud park: 17thC brick reading or summer pavilion, brick trompe l’oeil walls Garganvillar: watertower disguised as belvedere tower by J.J.Kugel’s trompe l’oeil Lauzerte, Pilgrims’ garden: snakes and ladders garden Moissac, Milhole: large polygonal dovecote on partly blind round arches, dormer windows in cupola Montalzat, aire Bois de Dourre: eyecatcher dovecote Pompignan castle: J.J. Lefranc’s Freemason park (Michel Penavayre) St-Arroumex: watertower disguised as medieval tower by J.J.Kugel’s trompe l’oeil Vaïssac: Le Petit Paris, minature buildings etc. La Ville-Dieu-du-Temple: watertower disguised as belvedere tower by J.J.Kugel’s trompe l’oeil 83 Var Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Fréjus, camp Gallieni: Vietnamese pagode, Buddha, Malinese mosque St-Raphaël, chem. de la Palmeraie, on vestiges Roman temple: Boulouris 4-column love temple, 18thC La Seyne-sur-Mer, Parc du Manteau, Port Tamaris: kiosk-belvedere, grotto, rockeries, late 19thC Toulon, Le Mourillon: sham ruined belvedere, rustic cement Tourves, château de Valbelle: Egyptian stables, pyramid, obelisk, colonnades, dairy Trans-en-Provence: Achille Knapen’s dew collecting cupola, 1931 Villecrose, park: troglodyte grottoes 84 Vaucluse Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Avignon, Rocher des Doms park: romantic ruins, grotto, belvedere Bédarrides: classical octagonal watertower with pavilion on top, 1885 Bonnieux: Philippe Audibert’s belvedere tower, 1885 Cabrière-d’Avignon: monsieur Truc’s ‘Paradis’, observatory etc., 1955-91 Malaucène S of, on D938: folly tower Sorgues, roundabout: sham bridge (after first stone bridge) Vaison-la-Romaine, roundabout: sham Roman archeological site 85 Vendée Pays de la Loire Fontenay-le-Comte, 40 rue Nicolas Rapin: Gustave Rivalland’s freemason’s tower, 1880 Luçon, Dumaine garden: conical tower, fairy-tale topiary etc. Luçon: 12 rue du Moulin Garnier: Dumaine mausoleum Luçon, Av. du President-Wilson: decorated concrete art-deco watertower building 1913, restored

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Les Sables-d’Olonne, l’Îsle Penotte: Danielle Aubin-Arnaud’s shell work St-Sulpice-le-Verdon, Chabotterie castle: haha, pavilions, private washhouse Ste-Pexine, Logis de Chaligny garden: orangery, nympheum Thiré, 32, rue de Bâtiment, Bâtiment garden: chinoiseries, green theatre, hermit cave eyecatcher, fr. 1987 Venansault, 60 chemin de la Tour, Loriot gardens: kiosk, belvedere, gloriette, pagode, temples 86 Vienne Poitou-Charentes Charroux: octagonal arcaded Tour Charlemagne, only remnant of 11thC abbey Poitiers, parc de Blossac: grotto, kiosks, summerhouse Poitiers: Futuroscope, theme park architecture 87 Haute-Vienne Limousin Ambazac, Domaine de Mont-Méry, along Étang de Jonas: rustic cement lakeside pagode/pavilion, 19thC La Geneytouse, St-Nicolas: Les Pierres Initiatiques by Jean-Marie Pidou, granite archit. sculptures Rochechouart cemetery: Léonce Chabernaud’s grave: a tun on a cart, 1953 St-Priest-Taurion, along D44: Recup’art: Jean-Pierre Moreau’s junk-recyle garden and mill Le Vigen, zoo Le Reynou park: outbuildings, dairy, grottoes, rockeries 1877-1890 88 Vosges Lorraine Épinal: old castle park has since 1670 only ruins of castle and town fortifications Épinal, rue d’Ambrail: Chinese pagoda stairwell tower 1809 Épinal, rue des Petites Boucheries: stone and red brick lavoir 1890, now George Brassens theatre Épinal, 2 Impasse des Blanchisseuses: neo-Hellenist Maison Romaine with peristyle, 1892 Gérardmer: open stairs to something follyish not found (see FiF;4) Martigny-les-Bains, Parc Thermal: kiosk on rockwork, icehouse grotto, swan island Plombières-les-Bains, rue Liétard: lavoir, under balcony, with permanent display of laundering 1858 Remiremont: pious portal of old hospital/hospice Raon-l’Etap, Haüsermann island: organic 1960s spaces of Museum hotel, out of use Le Val-d’Ajol, Le Breuil, route Forrestière: Le Chalet de l’Empereur, Napoleon III’s rustic chalet Viviers-le-Gras, rue de Pâquis: lavoir with empire half-rotunda protruding, 19thC 89 Yonne Bourgogne Ancy-le-Franc: 17thC octogonal pavilion La Folie on island, 19thC pyramid at castle Chamoux, near Vézelay: Cardo Land, prehistoric park, from 1981 Dicy: La Fabuloserie, outsider art museum Fontenoy: triangular Rococo obelisk 1750 Guédelon: medieval castle is being built Sermizelles: Tour Malakoff/chapel/belvedere 1858 Tanlay castle: 2 rusticated obelisks on guardboxes, nympheum, 17thC Tonnerre: La Fosse Dionne, ancient well with 1758 lavoir around it Vassy-sous-Pisy: mairie-lavoir, Italian-casino-style by Edme Tircuit, 1851 Voutenay-sur-Cure, D606: coursed ashlar lavoir with one large arch front and back, 1727 E. Tircuit 90 Territoire-de-Belfort Franche-Comté 91 Essonne Île-de-France Bièvres: Vauboyen castle = 19thC like Villa Rotonda: Egyptian columns, sphinxes Bièvres, 45, rue de Vauboyen: Victor Hugo museum Des Roches, sham ruin tower c. 1900 Breuillet, Baville castle park: Gabriel tower, lanterned coffeehouse, 19thC Briis-sous-Forge, 12 rue de l’Orme-Maillard: Anne Boleyn tower, castle vestige rebuilt in 1885 Brunoy, Réveillon castle: gloriette at river Yerres side Brunoy, along RN 5: Marquis de Provence’s pyramid, 1779 hunting rendez-vous Chamarande, departmental domain: ‘snakes and ladders’, orangery, icehouse, buffet d’eau etc. Champcueil, rue de Beauvais: Buisson tower = sham castle/observatory Corbeil-Essonne, Grands Moulins de Corbeil: 1893 Italianate factory elevator-tower Courances castle: mill (foulerie), Anglo-Japanese garden, rotunda, grotto Le Coudray-Montceaux: monumental staircase ‘of the beautiful Gabrielle’ Courson-Monteloup castle: children’s pavilion, icehouse Draveil, rue Alphonse Daudet: hexagonal writer’s den

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Draveil, 120 Bd. Henry Barbusse, Paris-Jardins: pavilion, rockwork Écharcon castle: 18thC nympheum/la Grotte/shell grotto Écharcon, Mennecy road: pagode type hunting/belvedere tower = Écharcon tower Étampes, Av. Théodore Charpentier: Bressault Gate, replica of Ferrara Fontainebleau, rebuilt 2004 Étampes, Parc de Jeurre (late 19thC): temples, gateways, 4 of Méréville’s follies Fontenay-les-Briis, 20, rue du Bon Puits: Robert de Lagadec’s garden of Pagan Deities Grigny, lakeside: 19thC watertower dressed up as belvedere tower with spire Janville-sur-Juine, rue de le tour Pocancy: 18thC belvedere tower Juvisy-sur-Orge, Camille Flammarion’s observatory park: rock grotto, tomb, pavilion Juvisy-sur-Orge, Parc au Grottes: 17thC terrace with grottoes, cascade Juvisy-sur-Orge, along road to Paris: 1740 obelisk (called fabrique de jardin) Juvisy-sur-Orge, Ducastel park: two fountains from Belles Fontaines bridge as eyecatcher Massy, allée du Clos-d’Origny: rustic cement kiosk, artificial rocks Méréville park: 45 follies, half-follies and features Milly-la-Forêt: Jean Tinguely’s ‘Le Cyclop’ (le monstre dans la forêt) Orsay: Glory temple, neo-Palladian 1801 St-Maurice-Mont-Couronne: glazed lavoir with frog and mandolin, texts and frescoes inside, 1900 St-Sulpice-de-Favière, Segrez castle: hunting pavilion, bergerie, grotto Ste-Geneviève-des-Bois, 8 rue Léo-Lagrange: Russian cemetery, 1926 Soisy-sur-Seine, Parc du Grand Veneur: Egyptian temple, obelisks, rocks, totem pole Les Ulis, St Jean de Beauregard castle: pavilions, dovecotes Villebon-sur-Yvette: 9 rue de Neufchâtel: Buddhist centre Truc-Lâm: pagode, grotto Villemoisson-sur-Orge, Érables park: music kiosk on sheltered seating, turret, c. 1900 Viry-Châtillon, 21 rue Maurice Sabatie: Piédifer estate: 3 grottoes Yerres, Caillebotte park: about 12 follies and half-follies 92 Hautes-de-Seine Île-de-France Asnières-sur-Seine: dogs’ cemetery Asnières-sur-Seine castle: 19thC kiosk Boulogne-Billancourt, Albert-Kahn garden: Japanese and English garden buildings Boulogne-Billancourt, Edmond de Rotschild park: grotto, rustic cement Boulogne-Billancourt, 11 rue de l’Alsace Lorraine: Swiss pavilion of 1878 world expo Boulogne-Billancourt, 5 rue Denfert-Rochereau: liner house villa Ternisien 1930 Bourg-la-Reine, villa Hennebique: concrete balconies, tower, 1901 Châtenay-Malabry, la Vallée aux Loups: nympheum, Moorish pavilion etc. Châtenay-Malabry, Chateaubriand garden: Veleda tower, icehouse Clichy-La- Garenne, Roger Salengros park: dovecote, bridge, rockwork Courbevoie, Bécon park: Musée Roybet Fould, Norway and Sweden pavilion of 1878 World Expo Courbevois, 178 Bd St-Denis, Bécon park: Parame, Indo-Chinese pavilion of 1878 World Expo La Garenne-Colombes: Maison Laglaine (in Gwyn’s list) not found Issy-les-Moulineaux: la Tour aux Figures (belvedere), 1988 Issy-les-Moulineaux, nympheum of St Sulpice seminary Levallois, villa Chaptal: reconstructed Moresque salon of Garnier palace from1889 World Expo Malakoff, 27 rue Avaulée Jean Michel Chesné’s chapel-grotto Meudon, 12 rue du Bel Air: André Bloc’s ‘habitacles’, house and belvedere tower Meudon, 13, route de Vaugirard, folie Huvé: pavilion Montrouge, 1, rue Verdun: Aldo Gandini’s mosaic house 1950-1975 Le Plessis-Robinson, Parc de la Solitude: neo-Gothic house, delapidating into ruin, end 19thC Neuilly-sur-Seine, Folie St James: temples, grotto Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île de la Jatte: temple (from Parc Monceau) Le Plessis-Robinson, Henry Sellier park along rue de Malabray: Robinson guinguettes

Le Plessis-Robinson, 19-21 rue de Malabry: Bignon castle / St-Jacques tower, 1870 Le Plessis-Robinson, Parc de la Solitude: neo-Gothic house, delapidating into ruin, end 19thC Puteaux, Lorilleux, rue de la République: love temple 2005 Rueil-Malmaison: Empereur pavilion, Love temple, rotunda-mausoleum, Swiss chalet

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Rueil-Malmaison: Av. du château, rustic pavilions Rueil-Malmaison, Impressionists park: kiosk, pond and Japanese bridge after Monet paintings Rueil-Malmaison, 229bis Av. N.Bonaparte, Petit Malmaison: 1807 temple St-Cloud: 17thC Le Nôtre cascade waterworks St-Cloud, opp. 60 rue Gounod: 1935 classical gloriette/love temple St-Cloud, Avelines garden; domed gloriette (was reading room) and lodge, 1930s St-Cloud, Rue Michel de Salles: 1910 hexagonal castellated private watertower Sceaux, 70 rue Houdan: Menagerie garden: columns, rustic cottage Sceaux, le Nôtre park: orangery, Aurora pavilion, Hanovre pavilion, cascade Sceaux, Brimborion park: rustic cement, icehouse Sèvres, 2 rue des Bois: Tinh Tam pagode Vanves, Frédéric Pic park: Lodge, icehouse, Tourelle pavilion Ville-d’Avray, 7 rue du Lac: Corot’s house pavilion Ville-d’Avray, 51-53 rue de Versailles: rustic pond cottage, enveloped in hotel 93 Seine-Saint-Denis Île-de-France Clichy-sous-Bois, 13, Allée Pierre Simon: rustic cement haunted house and hunting lodge Drancy, 86 rue Sadi-Carnot, Ladoucette park: Ladoucette mausoleum, grotto/icehouse, amphitheatre Épinay-sur-Seine, 102 Av. Joffre, N-D des Missions: concrete mixed style (from 1931 expo) Gagny, chemin des Bourdons, Courbet park: wide-arched rotunda with Venus, 1887, broken columns Noisy-le-Grand: Ricardo Bofill’s neoclassical architecture: Theatre d’Abraxas Vaujours, Sevran-Livry, parc de la Poudrerie: vestiges of 19thC royal gunpowder works, arcs 94 Val-de-Marne Île-de-France Ablon-sur-Seine, Villeneuve-le-Roi, 6 rue Albert Larmé: chinoiserie house Alfortville: Chinagora, Chinese décor, 1992

Bry-sur-Marne, 10bis rue Favier: rustic cement chalet Bry-sur-Marne, Maréchal de-Lattre-de-Tassigny square: rotunda in colonnades, 19thC Bry-sur-Marne, 12, rue des Ormes: rustic cement octagonal pavilion/lookout tower

Fontenay-sous-Bois: music kiosk from 1900 World Expo Paris L’Hay-les-Roses, André Edouard’s La Roseraie du Val-de-Marne: architectural trellis-work, rotunda Nogent-sur-Marne, 51 rue Hoche, tower of Russian palace replica from 1878 World Expo Nogent-sur-Marne, 12 Av. Victor Hugo: winding staircase of Eiffel tower of 1889 World Expo Périgny-sur-Yerres: Jean Dubuffet’s Closerie Falbala, enamel garden, 1971-76 Périgny-sur-Yerres, Jean Dubuffet Foundation: dovecote Vincennes, Zoo: Le Grand Rocher, 65m-high hollow concrete watertower in rocks shape, 1932 Villeneuve-le-Roi, 6 rue Albert Larmé: chinoiserie house, from 1970s 95 Val-d’Oise Île-de-France Argenteuil, park Mirabeau near Stade Marais: sham hermitage/chapel 1788, pious portal Marais domain Arnouville-les-Gonesse central square: 1745 triangular heavily decorated stone fountain Asnières-sur-Oise, Royaumont abbey: dairy, grotto, romantic ruin Auvers-sur-Oise, castle: shell grotto 17thC and 18thC, gazebo etc. Beaumont-sur-Oise, visible from 17 rue Pasteur: square Victorian Roger tower Cergy-Pontoise, St-Christophe: Dany Caravan’s belvedere (leaning) tower, 1985 Cergy-Pontoise, Osny: château de Grouchy: Love temple, child mausoleum, hunting pavilion, see Osny Condécourt, château de Villette: nympheum Enghien-les-Bains, casino: false front, pious portal Enghien-les-Bains, 85, rue du G. de Gaulle: 1934 fountain of the king, kiosk dome La Frette-sur-Seine: eclectic architecture houses along river Herblay, 2 quai du Génie: Moorish villa, 1900 L’Isle-Adam, rue de Beaumont: Cassan Chinese pavilion, 1778 Jagny-sous-Bois, RD47: octagonal lighthouse-like belvedere tower Montmorency, town hall garden: grotto, kiosk Montmorency: Rousseau’s donjon Montmorency, Av, Charls de Gaulle: tower/study Neuville-sur-Oise, Allee de la Seigneurie: love pavilion along the river, c. 1640 or 18thC

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Nointel castle: obelisk, column Osny nr Cergy-Pontoise, Grouchy castle: love temple, child mausoleum, hunting pav., icehouse, 18thC Presles, Courcelles castle park c. 1860: boathouse, sham ruin, kennels, kiosk, bridge, belvedere St-Brice-sous-Forêt, 68 rue de Paris, Jardin de la Cave: two-floor kiosk St-Martin-du-Tertre, rue Corentin Cerdon, Franconville-aux-Bois: folly group St-Martin-du-Tertre, rue Serret: sham lighthouse/belvedere Guet tower 1840 St-Prix, Double castle: tower(s), grottoes, pavilion, icehouse, sham ruin St-Prix, rue de la Croix-St Jacques, sundial, bricolage pavilion St-Prix, allée des Marronniers: stairs with fountain and small rectangular porticoed love temple 18thC Villers-en-Arthies castle: temple of True Happiness 1790, icehouse (private)