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Just before the breaking forth of the French Revolution, the Abbé de Lille composed a poem in four cantos, entitled _Les Jardins_, in which he enthusiastically urged the abandonment of all formality in the laying out of a garden, and the adoption of the new English style of irregularity.
"Avant de planter, avant que du terrain / Votre béche imprudente entame le sein, / Pour donnez aux jardins une forme plus pure, / Observez, connoissez, imitez la nature."