Versailles grandes eaux 3 : zone nord est du jardin : l'Encelade

• What strikes me is how Le Nôtre's gigantic fantasy is really in sort of morbid bad taste to begin with, and it's only partly excused by the stunning success of its realization. Leaving one with a twisted gut (of painful apprehension), seeing before one this large man, afflicted by Zeus, sinking beneath the earth, with an enormous jet of water shooting out of his mouth.