One can imagine that the Florentine (by her father because she was the Tour d'Auvergne by his mother) Catherine de Medici was seduced by this delightful little Renaissance pavilion. On the other hand, the castle opened, the side ditches of the city, a garden very pleasant if we, in the description that grows said Nicolas de Nicolay in 1566, precisely when the court stayed long at Moulins. Catherine de Medici is the official title of Duchess of Bourbonnais since 1564.
"the cost-Oriental gardens are large, beautiful and spacious, well maintained and cultivated. Who are heavily populated ornagers, lemon trees, myrtles, laurels, pines, oaks and green common and all other tree species on diversity of excellent fruit. And the beds are less provided, the seasons, all kinds of melons, cucumbers, squash, pumpkin, chard, artichokes, apples of love and flowers and various herbs, besides the pleasure of large alleys, the beautiful and industrious maze, the pavilion and the little fort CONNIL green (NB rabbits). And those are the castle gardens separated by two wide and deep ditches full of water, among which are the long bitches running the ring and bite horses. At one end of bitches is hereunto home and garden aviary. "Highest-shaped terrace, there is another garden, in which the pipe passes the large fountain Descoulis when we want in a stone vessel all round, so well, and fill two large tanks and deep well cemented stone [of long and square], the author of this book was to at his own expense, all that garden watering.
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