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The Racine de Monville Home Page is the world's first and most authoritative web site devoted to the Désert de Retz and its creator, François Racine de Monville (1734-1797).
- What is the Désert de Retz?
- Who was Monsieur de Monville?
- What does the Desert de Retz look like today?
- Who owns the Desert de Retz? Who owned the Desert de Retz?
- Can I visit the Desert de Retz?
- Can I see a map of the Desert de Retz?
- What are some of the mysteries surrounding Monsieur de Monville?
Buy any book or merchandise from Monsieur de Monville's aStore and help restore the Desert de Retz!
Leave a trace of your visit by sticking a pin in the GuestMap - it's fun and easy!
What's happening at the Désert de Retz?
- Go for a short guided tour of the Désert de Retz. Your tour guides? Dr. Pierre Morange, Mayor of Chambourcy, and Francois Racine de Monville himself!
- The Désert de Retz welcomes an estimated 1,000 visitors--including 839 adults purchasing entry tickets-- on the occasion of European Heritage Days, September 17-18, 2011.
- Was Monsieur de Monville a Freemason?
- View Mexican artist Lirio Garduño-Buono's paintings, The Chinese House and Pina Bausch inside the Broken Column, both inspired by the Désert de Retz.
- Watch Les Folies de Retz, a one-minute forty-nine second slide show of the Desert de Retz--past and present.
- The Désert de Retz makes the front cover of France's mass-circulation weekly L'Express.
- The Désert de Retz was the inspiration for New York-based painter Carol Markel's painting Folly Wedding.
- At least two surrealist paintings by French artist and film-maker Jean Barral were inspired by the Désert de Retz.
- A twenty-first century Désert de Retz? In England? Learn more about Alnwick Garden
- The Désert de Retz is above ground, but underground is the strange and mysterious Aqueduc de Retz.
On connaît le Désert de Retz. Mais connaissez-vous l'Aqueduc de Retz, insolite et souterrain.
- Watch a video of the Désert de Retz from the archives of the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA).
- Monsieur de Monville's Column House selected as one of the world's Top 7 Weirdest Houses!
- An English Monville? Learn more about John "Mad Jack" Fuller and his follies.
- Read an exclusive, first-hand account of a visit to the Désert de Retz in 1952.
- Enoch Robinson, an American Monville?
- Did Monsieur de Monville's Column House portend the French Revolution?
Dernière mise à jour le 1er janvier 2012.
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