the piano nobile, as shown in the engraving by Zeillerus. The parterre was much modified by 1652 as evidenced by the map of Gomboust, and even further after 1693 in favour of the broader, simpler parterre of Claude Desgotz. References Notes Sources F Hamilton Hazlehurst, 1966. Jacques Boyceau and the French Formal Garden (Athens, University of Georgia Press) External links Traité du jardinage (1638) at Gallica Traité du jardinage... at the Architectura website (Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université François-Rabelais, Tours): Laurent Paya (2012) on Jacques Boyceau and the 1638 edition of Traité du jardinage... French garden writers French Baroque garden designers French architecture writers 16th-century French people 17th-century French people 1560s births 1633 deaths Year of birth uncertain French male writers