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A Little Chaos: The Story of Sabine de Barra

King Louis XIV of France assigns the design and construction of the Gardens of Versailles to his head landscape architect André Le Nôtre. Already overwhelmed, managing numerous large-scale projects, Le Nôtre interviews several other landscape designers to whom he might be able to delegate some of the work. One of the candidates is Sabine de Barra, who is that rare thing in the 17th century: an independent professional woman.

First Impressions at Versailles

When Sabine arrives on the palace grounds for her interview, she pauses to move a potted plant in the courtyard. André observes this from a window, and asks her, during the interview, if she prizes order in design. Sabine affirms her respect for landscape order, but when pressed suggests that she would rather create something uniquely French than follow classical and Renaissance styles. André reminds her that everything he has built and designed follows order. Sabine apologizes and sincerely expresses admiration for him and his work. André abruptly shows her the door; she leaves disheartened.

A New Beginning

André mulls over the candidates, under pressure to please the King. His assistant judiciously re-presents Madame de Barra’s designs to him, prompting André to reconsider them. André surprises Sabine at her home that evening, and after admiring her seemingly untamed but magical garden, assigns to her the outdoor bosquet ballroom project at Versailles, which combines fountains and landscaping.

As work begins on her design, the original workmen make little progress; however, Sabine is offered another, better crew by one of her former competitors, and construction begins in earnest. A striking commoner, artlessly beautiful and fearlessly honest, Sabine attracts attention at court. She is befriended by the King’s brother Duc Philippe d’Orléans and his wife Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine.

Challenges and Resilience

Queen Maria Theresa dies suddenly. Sabine and André start a quiet, loving friendship, mutually attracted but not acting on their feelings due to André’s marriage and Sabine and André’s professional relationship. André is deeply moved by Sabine’s passion and honesty. Stunned at the loss of his wife, the King takes refuge in the gardens at the Château de Marly, among the pear trees. Sabine finds him there, initially mistaking him for the gardener with whom she had hoped to trade some plants. The King enjoys her warmth and forthrightness, and once she recognizes him, they continue their conversation as equals.

Love and Betrayal

André has been enduring his wife Françoise’s infidelities; Françoise insists that the key to his success is her relationships and influence at court. When she senses his interest in Sabine and warns him against an affair, he quotes to her her own words about their right to seek comfort elsewhere, becoming determined to pursue a relationship with Sabine. Back at the Versailles garden site, Françoise confronts Sabine, and states that André’s interest in her is transient and won’t last.

Later that night, Françoise’s lover, at her request, opens the reservoir’s sluice gates during a powerful storm, flooding the worksite and destroying much of the earthworks. Sabine nearly drowns trying to close it, but André arrives in time to rescue her. The next morning, she works vigorously to mend the damage. That same day, the King visits the worksite, assesses the damaged project skeptically, but allows it to proceed. Afterwards, André finds Françoise’s glove there. Realizing she is behind the sabotage, he confronts her with the glove and effectively ends their relationship.

A New Beginning

Sabine is introduced around court by the Duc de Lauzun and the King’s mistress, the Marquise de Montespan. Once the Marquise and her female courtiers discover that Sabine is widowed and has also lost her 6-year-old daughter, they share their own losses and welcome her into their company.

The Marquise formally presents Sabine to the King when he arrives. Sabine offers him a Four Seasons rose — the same found in the garden where they had met. Conversing about the nature of roses and their life cycle, beauty, hardships, and death, Sabine metaphorically defends Madame de Montespan, who has begun to lose the King’s favor. Louis is again moved by Sabine’s observations. “A wise rose,” he calls her, and takes her arm so that they may walk and talk further.

The Journey Ahead

At the inauguration of Sabine’s completed bosquet garden, the King and his court arrive and dance to the music of a hidden orchestra, as the fountains send water coursing down the tiers around the outdoor ballroom floor. It is clear that the garden design is a success, and the king is well pleased. After Sabine dances with the King, she and André join hands and leave to walk into the forest together. The camera pulls slowly back and above the entire grounds of Versailles, revealing the enormous sweep of its grandeur.

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