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Ermenonville is a commune
Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative divisions in the France. The French word commune appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin Medieval commune, meaning a small gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common....
 in the Oise
Oise

Oise is a departments of France in the north of France named after the Oise River....
 department in northern France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
.

Ermenonville is notable for its park named for Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau was a major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth century The Age of Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought....
, whose tomb designed by the painter Hubert Robert
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 is on the Isle of Poplars in its lake.

garden
Garden

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials....
 at Ermenonville was one of the earliest and finest examples of the English garden
English garden

The term English garden or English park is used in Continental Europe to refer to a type of natural-appearing large-scale landscape garden with its origins in the English landscape gardens of the 18th century, especially those associated with Capability Brown....
 in France. The garden at Ermenonville was planned by Count Louis-René Girardin, friend and final patron to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.






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Ermenonville is a commune
Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative divisions in the France. The French word commune appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin Medieval commune, meaning a small gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common....
 in the Oise
Oise

Oise is a departments of France in the north of France named after the Oise River....
 department in northern France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
.

Ermenonville is notable for its park named for Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau was a major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth century The Age of Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought....
, whose tomb designed by the painter Hubert Robert
Hubert Robert

Sorry, no overview for this topic
 is on the Isle of Poplars in its lake.

Park

The garden
Garden

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials....
 at Ermenonville was one of the earliest and finest examples of the English garden
English garden

The term English garden or English park is used in Continental Europe to refer to a type of natural-appearing large-scale landscape garden with its origins in the English landscape gardens of the 18th century, especially those associated with Capability Brown....
 in France. The garden at Ermenonville was planned by Count Louis-René Girardin, friend and final patron to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Girardin's master plan drew its inspiration from Rousseau's novels and philosophy of the nobility of Nature. Rousseau's tomb, in fact, is prominently situated on the artificial island
Artificial island

An artificial island is an island that has been constructed by humans rather than formed by natural means. They are created by expanding existing islets, construction on existing reefs, or amalgamating several natural islets into a bigger island....
 in the lake at Ermenonville. Louis-René Girardin was probably assisted in the design by the painter Hubert Robert
Hubert Robert

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. Created with care and craft, the garden came to resemble a natural environment, almost a wilderness, appearing untouched by any human intervention. Girardin admired the work of William Shenstone
William Shenstone

William Shenstone was an England poet and one of the earliest practitioners of History of gardening#Landscape gardens through the development of his estate, The Leasowes....
 at The Leasowes
The Leasowes

The Leasowes is a 57 hectare estate in Halesowen, England, comprising house and gardens.Developed between 1743 and 1763 by Poet William Shenstone as a ferme orn?e, the gardens are one of the earliest History of gardening#Landscape gardens....
 and made a ferme ornee
Ferme ornée

The term ferme orn?e as used in English garden history derives from Stephen Switzer's term for 'ornamented farm'. It describes a country estate laid out partly according to aesthetic principles and partly for farming....
 at Ermenonville. An imitation of Rousseau's Island at Ermenonville was produced in Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm
Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm

The Dessau-W?rlitz Garden Realm, also known as the English Grounds of W?rlitz, is one of the first and largest English parks in Germany and continental Europe....
, Germany.

It was much visited and admired during the early nineteenth century. The garden at Ermenonville was described by Louis-René's son in 1811 in an elegant tour-book with aquatint
Aquatint

Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching.Intaglio printmaking makes marks on the matrix that are capable of holding ink....
 plates that reveal Girardin's love of diverse vistas that capture painterly landscape effects. Enhancing the elegiac mood of these views were the altars and monuments, the 'Rustic Temple', and other details meant to evoke Rousseau's Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse
Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse

Julie, or the New Heloise is an epistolary novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, published in 1761 in literature by Rey . The original edition was entitled Lettres de deux amans habitans d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes ....
.

Nearby is Rousseau's 'cabin' in the secluded désert of Ermenonville.

Napoleon Bonaparte famously visited Ermenonville, where he remarked to Girardin that it might have been better for the peace of Frenchmen that neither himself nor Rousseau had ever been born. Girardin retold this story again and again after the fact.

See also

  • Ermenonville air disaster
  • Communes of the Oise department


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