# French Formal Garden (フランス式整形庭園)

> The garden Le Nôtre perfected at Versailles: axis, symmetry and perspective, nature disciplined into geometry by shears and water — power made visible as spatial order.

- IndexStyle No.405 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/french-formal-garden
- Kind: Style · Family: Garden Styles · Era: 17th century–
- Mood: Luxury, Trust, Exhilaration
- Color cues: #e9e6dd / #67635d / #171615 (cues taken from reference works, not a fixed palette)

## Defining characteristics

- Axes running to the vanishing point
- Strict symmetry
- Clipped geometry
- Water mirrors and the grand canal

## Best used for

- Comparing primary sources and canonical works
- Extracting principles that transfer to other media

## Research method

This entry records a historical style; derive the treatment from its sources rather than a fixed recipe:

- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process

## What to avoid

Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.

## Application checklist

Before calling a piece an application of this style, check it against the defining characteristics:

- [ ] Axes running to the vanishing point
- [ ] Strict symmetry
- [ ] Clipped geometry
- [ ] Water mirrors and the grand canal
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **English Landscape Garden (イングリッシュ・ランドスケープ・ガーデン)** — The 18th-century English revolution that abandoned geometry to construct nature-seeming scenery: rolling lawns, serpentine lakes, temples in the distance — pictures built out of land itself, the prototype of the public park. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/english-landscape-garden
- **Parterre (パルテール（刺繍花壇）)** — The embroidered bed: box hedging stitching arabesques into the ground, designed to be read from the floors above — the ground itself turned into ornament, gardening as graphic design. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/parterre

## Further study

- André Le Nôtre
- Vaux-le-Vicomte
- the politics of perspective

## Reference works

- ヴェルサイユの軸線（CC BY-SA 3.0） — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vue%20a%C3%A9rienne%20du%20domaine%20de%20Versailles%20par%20ToucanWings%20-%20Creative%20Commons%20By%20Sa%203.0%20-%20004.jpg
- 整形庭園の俯瞰（CC BY-SA 3.0） — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vue%20a%C3%A9rienne%20du%20domaine%20de%20Versailles%20par%20ToucanWings%20-%20Creative%20Commons%20By%20Sa%203.0%20-%20007.jpg

## Source of record

- Château de Versailles — https://en.chateauversailles.fr/

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/french-formal-garden
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/french-formal-garden/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compose_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)

## 日本語

ル・ノートルがヴェルサイユで完成させた、軸線・対称・遠近法の庭。刈り込みと水面で自然を幾何学に従わせ、権力を空間の秩序として可視化した。

特徴: 消失点まで走る軸線／厳格な左右対称／刈込みの幾何学／水鏡と大運河
注意: 表面的な記号へ還元せず、時代・地域・技術・制作主体の文脈を確認する。