Building Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie

Jean-Baptiste de la Quintinie’s (1624-1688) talents as an agronomist took him from Vaux-le-Vicomte to Versailles, where he worked with the greatest gardeners of the time during the reign of the Sun King. Thanks to the many techniques he developed, he is the true forerunner of early-vegetable growing. The kitchen garden he created in 1678 for Louis XIV still exists and was listed as a historic monument in 1921.