On January 13, the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot laid the first stone of the future large basin of the parterre of the national domain of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in the presence of the financiers and actors of the project. With its 50 meters in diameter, it will be equipped with a jet projecting water 20 meters high. The construction work, which should last 12 months, will bring life back to a 340-year-old site, which experienced major upheavals in the 19th century.e century: in 1845, the large parterre had been completely destroyed to allow the arrival of the railway tracks in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.…
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