Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
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People such as Salomon de Caus constructed beautiful palace gardens, with automata, parterres, fountains, "mountains", statuary, etc. These gardens constituted a part of the scial ideology, for example, combining and supporting dances, visually proving an example of the hierarchical social order expected socially. The enormous expenditures to create such gardens reached a point that these gardens (the ideology) became a laughing stock. The monarchy had the mentality of the bourgeoisie that it attacked!

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