weddings. However, during a trip to Versailles, John Locke wrote about the appearance of the trees, stating that the boxes the trees were planted in did not enable proper rooting, causing the trees to develop a unique shape with small heads and thick trunks. Description The central gallery is flanked by two side galleries located under the (so-called because each staircase has 100 steps). The three galleries enclose the lower bed (), also called . The walls of these galleries are thick and the central gallery is over long and high. The central gallery faces south to optimize the natural warming effects of the sun, which, combined with the double glazing of the windows, provides a frost-free environment without the use of artificial heating year-round. At the center of the is a large circular pool with a water feature, surrounded by formal lawns planted with topiary. From May to October, the orange trees and other trees are exposed in the lower bed. There are over 1,000 different containers altogether, with several pomegranate (Punica granatum), olive (Olea europea), and orange (Citrus × sinensis) trees that are over 200 years old. Sculpture The Orangerie shelters an assortment of statuary, the most famous of which is an equestrian statue of Louis XIV by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the most prominent sculptor of the Baroque period. Louis XIV was famously displeased with the likeness of Bernini's statue of him, ordering its destruction when he first saw it in 1685. Louis was a skilled horseman and felt the sculpture's pose and drama was generally wild and inconsistent with his royal dignity. He was persuaded to move the statue to a remote location in the gardens, on the north side of the Neptune Basin rather than destroy it, but he did call in his preferred sculptor François Girardon to re-shape the face and the base of the statue. Recast as a representation of the ancient Roman hero Marcus Curtius, it was moved to the north side of the , opposite the boundary of the Orangerie parterre, where it remained for centuries. In another part of the Orangerie lies the octagon bath of Rouge de Rance marble which once belonged to Louis XIV. It was originally installed in a lavish five-room bathing complex belonging to the King's mistress, Madame de Montespan. The Orangerie was home to many Bronze replicas of Classical sculpture. Symmetry and antithesis dominated the gardens