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).
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Monville: Forgotten Luminary of the French Enlightenment," the fifth book by Ronald W. Kenyon, webmaster of the Racine de Monville Home Page, can now be ordered directly from the publisher, CreateSpace, or from Amazon.
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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.
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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!