page_title: Château de Vendeuvre
section_title: The Crystal Tree
hierarchical_section_title: Château de Vendeuvre / The Gardens / The 'Surprise' water gardens / The Crystal Tree
caption_attribution_description: Crystal Tree
context_page_description: The Château de Vendeuvre is situated in the commune of Vendeuvre, near to Lisieux in Normandy. Classed as a Historic Monument both for its exterior and interior, Vendeuvre is a prototypical aristocratic Norman country house. It was opened to the public in 1983.
context_section_description: Linked to a legend from antiquity, of a tree that drew, by its roots, all science and wisdom.  Around it, plants were cultivated and fertilized by the spirits of the place. This celestial tree offered, to those that it chose, a dew that transmitted wisdom and eternity. Since earliest times, trees  have been the object of worship, perhaps because their roots attain the underground depths and their branches symbolize the aspiration of ascension towards the sky.
caption: The Crystal Tree
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