Who designed the outdoor ballroom at Versailles?

André le Nôtre
In the 17th century, André le Nôtre was considered the greatest landscape architect in France. He designed or co-designed gardens at Versailles, Vaux-le-Vicomte, Fontainebleau and Chantilly, as well as the Tuileries in Paris.

Is the garden in a little chaos real?

Winslet’s Madame de Barra is a fiction, but the garden she creates in the film is real. The Grotto of Thetis was built as an outdoor ballroom with marble flooring, tiered seating and fountains that run over tiers of stonework and shells. The grotto is also part of Le Notre’s ingenious hydraulics scheme.

How many fountains are there at the garden of Versailles?

50 fountains

Gardens of Versailles
Area	800 ha.
Designer	André Le Nôtre Charles Le Brun Louis Le Vau Jules Hardouin-Mansart
Plants	200,000 trees 210,000 flowers planted annually
Features	50 fountains 620 water jets (fed by 35 km. piping) 5.57 km Grand Canal (circumference; surface area 23 ha.)

Who built Versailles which king?

Louis XIV built the extravagant Palace of Versailles Beginning in 1661, the king transformed the royal hunting lodge in Versailles where he played as a boy into a monument of royal opulence. In 1682, Louis XIV officially moved his court to the lavish palace at Versailles, 13 miles outside of Paris.

Is a little bit of chaos a true story?

Rather refreshingly, the film acknowledges right at the start that the whole story is fictional. It’s prologue text reads simply “There is an outdoor ballroom in the gardens of Versailles. In what follows, that much at least is true.” Sabine is a completely fictitious character.

Who built the fountains at Versailles?

West of the Water Parterre and on either side of the central axis are two fountains designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, made in 1687. They are composed of fighting animals and demonstrate impressive realism.

How were fountains of Versailles powered?

At Versailles, the fountain complex ordered by King Louis XIV used a vast, complicated and highly expensive system of 14 huge wheels, each more than 30 feet in diameter, powered by the current of a branch of the river Seine. A river current is just another manifestation of the power of gravity.