Chantilly Park

The enchanting park round the châteaux in Chantilly was laid out in 1663 by the royal gardener André Le Nôtre, who equipped it, on the model of Versailles, with a large canal, an antique temple and a romantic Island of Love. Other attractive features of the park are a little hunting lodge, the 17th century Maison de Sylvie, a tennis court (Jeu de Paume) of 1757 and the 17th C Hameau, a reconstruction of a little village which served as a setting for the pastoral plays then in vogue.