Achille Duchêne (1866 — 1947) was a French garden designer who worked in the grand manner established by

André Le Nôtre André Le Nôtre (; 12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700), originally rendered as André Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. He was the landscape architect who designed the gar ...

. The son of the landscaper Henri Duchêne, Achille Duchêne was the garden designer most in demand among high French society at the turn of the twentieth century. He built up a large office to handle the practice, which was responsible over a period of years for some six thousand gardens in France and worldwide. Among the more notable commissions: *

Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (English: Palace of Vaux-le-Vicomte) is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne department of Île-de-France. Built between 1658 and 1661 for Nicolas Fo ...

for Alfred Sommier *

Carolands Carolands Chateau is a , 4.5 floor, 98 room mansion on in Hillsborough, California. An example of American Renaissance and Beaux-Arts design, the building is a California Historical Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic P ...

, for Harriett Pullman Carolan in Hillsborough, California, USA *

Château de Champs A château (; plural: châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions. Nowaday ...

Champs-sur-Marne Champs-sur-Marne () is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris, in the Seine-et-Marne Departments of France in the Île-de-France region. The commune of Champs-sur-Marne is part of the Val Maubu ...

, for Comte Louis Cahen d'Anvers *

Château de Courances The Château de Courances () at Courances, Essonne is a French château built in approximately 1630. The house and gardens are open to the public. House In 1552, Côme Clausse, a notary and royal secretary to the King, acquired from the Lapite ...

, for the marquise Jean de Ganay * Château du Marais, for comte

Boni de Castellane Marie Ernest Paul Boniface de Castellane, Marquis de Castellane (February 14, 1867 – October 20, 1932), known as Boni de Castellane, was a French nobleman and politician. He was known as a leading '' Belle Époque'' tastemaker and the first hus ...

(1903-1906) * Château de Breteuil (

Yvelines Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.Château de Rosny-sur-Seine The Château de Rosny-sur-Seine is a château in the Louis XIII style, situated in Rosny-sur-Seine in Yvelines, on the left bank of the Seine, at a short driving distance from Paris by the road to Rouen. It is famous as the seat of Maximilien d ...

(

Yvelines Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.Paul Lebaudy (end of the nineteenth century) * Château de Voisins at

Saint-Hilarion (Yvelines) Saint-Hilarion is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. See also *Communes of the Yvelines department An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to h ...

, for Comte

Edmond de Fels Comte de Fels

Edmond de Fels (1858, in Marseille – 1951) was a French ...

* Water parterres of

Blenheim Palace Blenheim Palace (pronounced ) is a country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It is the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough and the only non-royal, non- episcopal country house in England to hold the title of palace. The palace, on ...

for the ninth Duke of Marlborough *

Château de Langeais The Château de Langeais is a 15th-century Flamboyant Gothic castle in Indre-et-Loire, France, built on a promontory created by the small valley of the Roumer River at the opening to the Loire Valley. Founded in 992 by Fulk Nerra, Count of Anjou, ...

* Château de Sassy (

Orne Orne (; nrf, Ôrne or ) is a département in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne. It had a population of 279,942 in 2019.Hôtel Porgès The Hôtel Porgès was a hôtel particulier on Avenue Montaigne in Paris, designed for Jules Porgès in 1892 by Ernest Sanson, with a garden by Achille Duchêne, on the site of the Maison pompéienne. It was sold in 1937 after his widow's death ...

, 18 avenue Montaigne, Paris 8e, for

Jules Porgès Jules Porgès (25 May 1839 – 20 September 1921) was a Paris-based financier who played a central role in the rise of the Randlords who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa. He was born Yehuda Porges in Vienna and ...

* Gardens of the

Palais Rose Palais () may refer to: * Dance hall, popularly a ''palais de danse'', in the 1950s and 1960s in the UK * ''Palais'', French for palace **Grand Palais, the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées **Petit Palais, an art museum in Paris * Palais River in ...

, avenue Foch, for

* Nordkirchen Schlossgarten,

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, Germany * Château de la Verrerie (

Le Creusot Le Creusot () is a Communes of France, commune and industrial town in the Saône-et-Loire Departments of France, department, Regions of France, region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, eastern France. The inhabitants are known as Creusotins. Formerl ...

), for the Schneider family (1904-1908) * Garden at the Cloître de l' Abbaye de Royaumont (1912) * The Errázuriz Palace, the private residence of Josefina de Alvear and Matias Errázuriz, in

Buenos Aires, Argentina Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

(1914) * The

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, the private residence of Elisa de Alvear and

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, in

(1915) * Park of Schoppenwihr at

Ostheim Ostheim vor der Rhön is a town in Northern Bavaria in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Franconia. Though politically part of Bavaria since 1947, it was historically a part of Thuringia, and remains religiously, architecturally, and to some exten ...

(

Haut-Rhin Haut-Rhin (, ; Alsatian: ''Owerelsàss'' or '; german: Oberelsass, ) is a department in the Grand Est region of France, bordering both Germany and Switzerland. It is named after the river Rhine. Its name means ''Upper Rhine''. Haut-Rhin is the ...

), garden restoration for Général Baron de Berckheim * Gardens of

Eijsden Castle Eijsden Castle ( nl, Kasteel Eijsden) is a moated manor house with several farm buildings, a gatehouse and castle park, in Eijsden-Margraten, Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg, Netherlands. The current castle was built in 1637 and is located next t ...

(around 1900), near

Maastricht Maastricht ( , , ; li, Mestreech ; french: Maestricht ; es, Mastrique ) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht is located on both sides of the ...

, the Netherlands
Description at monumentenregister.cultureelerfgoed.nl, official website for Dutch cultural heritage * Mikes kastély, Zabola Estate, Transylvania, Romania, general plan for Count Armin Mikes In 1935, Achille Duchêne published ''Les jardins de l'avenir'', in which he affirmed that there was no future for grand aristocratic parks, and that for the future one must think in terms of simplified maintenance in reduced scale.

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French landscape and garden designers 1866 births 1947 deaths People from Lorient {{France-architect-stub

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