Duvillers,F[rancois]. FranLes parcs et jardins crées et executés par F. Duvillers. La première partie. Paris, chez l auteur, 1871. Folio. (8) + 80p. With 40 engraved plates. Publisher s cloth-backed printed boards. An impressive record of forty private and public gardens laid out by the author, a Belgian architect and landscape designer. They date from 1838 to 1870, and are in the landscape or paysagiste style prevalent in France in the mid-19th century. Formal elements continue to be evident in the lay out of potagers and fruit gardens, and in the use of avenues and canals. Extensive notes on planting are provided in the text. Among institutional schemes are those for the Ecole de botanique, Paris, the botanical institution of M. Poiloup at Vaugirard and an innovative garden with pavilions for a Maison de santé des deux sexes in the rue de Picpus, Paris; public gardens and parks include the Jardin de l Etoile intended for bals, concerts, fêtes publiques, de jour et de nuit at Passy, t