Volvic · Puy-de-Dôme
The French parterre and terraces of Bosredon
An eighteenth-century Auvergnat house in the Italian taste at Volvic, Bosredon keeps its parterre à la française, its terraces, basins and mythological statues, all listed in 2010 together with the orangery.
From the source
Château de Bosredon is a château at Volvic, Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 14th, 15th and 18th centuries. It is protected as a monument historique at the second level (inscrit). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.
Editorial reading
The record presents Bosredon as a type: the great village houses and châteaux built by the aristocracy and wealthy bourgeoisie of the region in the eighteenth century, with wide windows, grey-stone quoins and string courses framing white render, a balustrade along the roof, outside stairs and a terrace, and, not to be forgotten, the parterre à la française. The 2010 listing names the garden with its terraces, basins and mythological statues, the orangery in its entirety, and the enclosure with its gate. A fourteenth- or fifteenth-century tympanum with an armorial shield survives in an inner courtyard.
Recommendation
A complete small ensemble: house, orangery, terraces, basins and boxwood parterre, all of one eighteenth-century intention.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00092477 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ch%C3%A2teau%20de%20Bosredon.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
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