an invitation to knowledge

Have you ever taken the time to listen to the trees? When you walk in the street, and you pass them without seeing them, their language is surely inaudible to you. But in a garden, in the woods, do you hear them flaunting like drinkers on a terrace? Ah, what they talk about! Alain Baraton knows something about this. For almost fifty years, the gardener of the Versailles park has been their main confidant. Today, he decided to give them the floor in a very beautiful Love dictionary.

We enter this book like we go for a walk. Our gaze wanders, from top to bottom, because the work is illustrated with a thousand paintings, lithographs, drawings and photographs. We observe Almond tree in bloom the Van Gogh, The Birch Forest de Klimt, The Gardeners de Caillebotte or even Woman sitting under the willows by Claude Monet. We admire the colors, we look for details, we hum Ferrat, Brassens, Gainsbourg… And we learn…