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Chantilly.

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And Chantilly is one of the
horse racing centers of France

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and has been since
the 17th century.

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And so this touches on that
a bit but the Prince de Condé

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that is mentioned was the
owner of Chantilly at the time

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and was the brother of
Louis XIV, the king.

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"Chantilly."

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"The Prince de Condé every
morning sent his horses.

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As Le Nôtre put it: mon sieur.

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Never such an honor has and
shall enslave myself fountain

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and cascade.

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And much later in a letter
to the Count of Portland,

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superintendent of the
royal gardens of England,

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and ambassadors of France,
he wrote, and above all,

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Chantilly.

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Dear kindness.

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Dear Altesse and endless canal.

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To see such a river
fall in a single eye,

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such terrasse was there
young again, among paths.

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And I, your servant,
and I, your calipers,

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made them winners from which
windows, the clouds, that one,

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for instance, the
atomic structure

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of acres and that one,
a thoroughbred racer

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in a dovecote.

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And your stables full of ravens.

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We will, all our hats upon this
sunny day, capsize in a storm.

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And with a horse under
each arm, madame,

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have you the interlocking nature
of even the smallest particles?

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Neck and neck around
the final curve.

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It's so odd how horses
in a dead gallop

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will nonetheless, at each
step, bend their forward ankles

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slightly upward in a
gesture so delicate,

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that a teacup
becomes a lampshade,

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and the lamp, a coral reef."

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