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The Treasure of the Holy Sepulchre. Gifts from European royal courts to Jerusalem

16 April – 14 July 2013 – Exhibition in the Palace of Versailles (Crusades rooms) and in the Maison de Chateaubriand (Châtenay-Malabry)
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Madame Elisabeth, a princess with a tragic destiny (1764-1794)

27 April - 21 July 2013 – Exhibition in the Estate of Madame Elisabeth
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Penone Versailles

11 June - 31 October 2013 – Exhibition in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles
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The Labyrinth grove

Exhibition at the Versailles municipal library
Curatorship : Élisabeth Maisonnier
Associated curators : Raphaël Masson, Alexandre Maral, Timothée Chevalier

Designed by André Le Nôtre and Charles Perrault to educate the Dauphin, the grove of the Labyrinth was one of the most imposing spaces at Versailles. Almost forty fountains decorated with 333 painted lead animals depicted Aesop's fables in the heart of a maze of trellises and rockeries.

Destroyed in the eighteenth century, this magical place will be brought back to life by an exhibition at the Versailles municipal library housed in Louis XV's former Foreign Ministry.

The King's flowers. Paintings, watercolours on vellum and parterres

2 July - 29 September 2013 – Exhibition at the Grand Trianon
Curatorship : Jérémie Benoît, Gabriela Lamy

The flamboyance and diversity of the species in the Trianon gardens are due to a long-lasting passion for botany that held sway at court during the seventeenth century. This summer, an exhibition will unveil the jewels of the Museum's vellum collection, initiated by Louis XIV and his uncle Gaston of Orléans to study and conserve rare flowers. Echoing this presentation in the Cotelle gallery, the Trianon gardeners will recreate a historic flowering of its beds: dark blue hyacinths, daffodils from Provence, narcissus Constantinople…

The exhibition is organised with the exceptional collaboration of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

Le Nôtre in perspective. 1613 - 2013

22 October 2013 - 23 February 2014 – Exhibition at the Palace of Versailles (Africa rooms)
Curatorship : Béatrix Saule, Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin, Georges Farhat

The grand finale of the year, the Le Nôtre in Perspective exhibition. Running counter to the received wisdom, 1613 – 2013 offers a surprising new image of the man, his art and his influence. Gardener, designer, architect, engineer and hydraulics specialist, landscaper and town planner, collector, spatial magician – André Le Nôtre, a close friend of the king, transformed the dreams of princes into reality. The exhibition also explores his fascinating modernity in today's world.