{"id":1030,"date":"2022-06-23T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2022-08-02T13:58:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T13:58:47","slug":"2022-givens-scholarship-studying-abroad-michael-high-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/2022\/06\/23\/2022-givens-scholarship-studying-abroad-michael-high-23\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Givens Scholarship | Studying Abroad: Michael High \u201923"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Versailles Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When I got on the plane in January, I still wasn\u2019t quite certain what to expect.  I\u2019d done all the research, but some things can\u2019t be looked up.  I couldn\u2019t know what my host family would be like, if I\u2019d like the food, or the weather, or how busy the commute would be.  I only had a vague idea of my classes, because they didn\u2019t have syllabi.  But one thing I wasn\u2019t expecting at all was how beautiful the traditional French gardens would be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In class, we covered notable French artists and architects who influenced paysagisme<\/em>, landscape architecture, like Jacques Boyceau, Claude Mollet, and Andr\u00e9 Le N\u00f4tre.  I learned about the jardin \u00e0 la fran\u00e7aise, it\u2019s evolution from French Renaissance gardens, and it\u2019s influence on the developing neo-classical British garden.  But old pictures in a textbook hardly compared to visiting them with my own eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tuileries Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The first garden I visited was at the castle of Saint Germain-en-Laye, and between the view overlooking Paris, the long circuit, the formal flower gardens, and the forest I thought it was one of the best gardens I had ever had the privilege to visit.  Despite that, every garden I visited after that amazed me in new and exciting ways.  When I visited the gardens of Versailles, I was blown away by the scale and intricacy of the garden.  Each path led to another garden and each garden had more paths, and it just kept going.  The size and grandeur were amplified by the detail worked into every elegant statue, pond, bench, and wall.  I loved the peacefulness of the garden at Mont Sainte-Odile, the wind rustling the leaves and petals as it blew over the mountain.  The openness of the garden at Chantilly was invigorating, and the diversity of the gardens showcased centuries of evolution in landscape architecture.  Stretched along the grand canal was the Jardin anglais, from the 19th<\/sup>century, the jardin fran\u00e7ais de Le N\u00f4tre, from the 17th<\/sup> century, and the Jardin anglo-chinois from the 18th<\/sup>century.  The farmstead, hedge maze for meditation, reflecting pond, and woods were also exquisite; I could have spent a week there if I had the time.  The chateau de la Roche-Guyon was a step even further back in time, with the oldest sections dating back over a thousand years, although the garden there was created in 1697.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also visited the Jardin des Tuilieries, Le Jardin du Luxembourg, the hospital garden at Arles where Van Gogh often visited, and Monet\u2019s Water Garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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