Chantilly.
And Chantilly is one of the horse racing centers of France
and has been since the 17th century.
And so this touches on that a bit but the Prince de Condé
that is mentioned was the owner of Chantilly at the time
and was the brother of Louis XIV, the king.
"Chantilly."
"The Prince de Condé every morning sent his horses.
As Le Nôtre put it: mon sieur.
Never such an honor has and shall enslave myself fountain
and cascade.
And much later in a letter to the Count of Portland,
superintendent of the royal gardens of England,
and ambassadors of France, he wrote, and above all,
Chantilly.
Dear kindness.
Dear Altesse and endless canal.
To see such a river fall in a single eye,
such terrasse was there young again, among paths.
And I, your servant, and I, your calipers,
made them winners from which windows, the clouds, that one,
for instance, the atomic structure
of acres and that one, a thoroughbred racer
in a dovecote.
And your stables full of ravens.
We will, all our hats upon this sunny day, capsize in a storm.
And with a horse under each arm, madame,
have you the interlocking nature of even the smallest particles?
Neck and neck around the final curve.
It's so odd how horses in a dead gallop
will nonetheless, at each step, bend their forward ankles
slightly upward in a gesture so delicate,
that a teacup becomes a lampshade,
and the lamp, a coral reef."