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DESCRIPTION:Susan\nTaylor-Leduc will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on
  Wednesday\, February 7\,\nat 12:15 pm. Her talk is entitled “Designing Le
 gacy: Marie-Antoinette and Josephine as Garden Patrons.”During\nthe tumult
 uous forty years from 1774 until 1814\, when the French government was\ntr
 ansformed from monarchy to empire\, Queen Marie-Antoinette and Empress Jos
 ephine\nBonaparte created picturesque gardens at the Petit Trianon\, Versa
 illes\, and\nMalmaison respectively. The captivating life stories of both 
 women have\nelicited critiques of their garden patronage\, suggesting that
  they pursued\ninsatiable desires unfettered by financial constraints\, de
 tached from political\nand social realities. This talk suggests an alterna
 tive reading: Taylor-Leduc contends\nthat both women constituted living le
 gacies of female empowerment that were\nessential to the creation and diss
 emination of the picturesque garden and as\nsuch contributed to the evolut
 ion of modern landscape architecture in\nFrance. \n\nSusan\nTaylor-Leduc e
 arned both her masters and doctoral degrees from the University\nof Pennsy
 lvania. Since 1992\, she has worked as a teacher\, curator\, university\na
 dministrator\, and tour guide in Paris. A specialist in eighteenth-century
 \nFrench gardens\, she is currently working on a book tentatively entitled
  Designing Legacy: Marie-Antoinette\,\nJosephine and the French Picturesqu
 e Garden 1774–1814.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Designing Legacy
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