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Paris – On March 23rd, Christie’s France, in association with booksellers Jacques Quentin (Geneva) and Benoît Forgeot (Paris), is honored to offer the first part of the renowned poetic library of Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, undoubtedly the most comprehensive and bibliophile collection on French poets from the second half of the 16th century, particularly Ronsard and his cohort of the Pléiade: Joachim du Bellay, Etienne Jodelle, Rémy Belleay, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Jacques Peletier du Mans et Pontus de Tyard. The collection, which today numbers around 800 books comprising close to a thousand works, is the result of over half a century of astute connoisseurship.
The terraces in November, now awaiting replanting in spring
Credit: Anna Omiotek-Tott
It is now more than 20 years since I moved to Sandhill Farm House, near Petersfield in Hampshire. I was immediately attracted to the one-acre property, divided into two halves, as it had the potential of being turned into several different spaces.
Sandhill is my fourth real garden. Having been a tenant of a National Trust property – Stoneacre in Kent – for 11 years, I wanted a change and the freedom to create a new, smaller garden that would need less maintenance. The thin, sandy soil would be easier to work than heavy Kent clay and I imagined that the garden could be managed in about two days per week.