Today, please welcome my friend and fellow author Lynn Carthage, who’s here to share a little about the Grand Canal at Versailles and to celebrate the recent release of BETRAYED (Kensington, 2016) the second novel in her Gothic YA trilogy, The Arnaud Legacy. The Grand Canal stretches into the distance, defying perspective. The Grand Canal at the palace of Versailles, just outside Paris, is an arresting sight. The architect Le Nôtre deliberately made the end of the waterway larger, to defeat the eye’s tendency to narrow an object in the distance (akin to the disappearing railroad tracks used to explain perspective in art
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