Visit of Monsieur le Maire Degonville to Perth
Monsieur Luc Degonville, Maire de Manicamp(Ainse) who was invited by the Franco-Scottish Society (Edinburgh Branch) to give a talk in Edinburgh, Perth and Inverness on the town of Manicamp, where the Scottish landscape gardener, Thomas Blaikie (1751-1858) lived and worked. The Mayor of Manicamp has recently named a square in his town after the Scottish landscape gardener. In her biography of Thomas Blaikie, Patricia Taylor, refers to Thomas Blaikie as “the Capability Brown of France”
Monsieur Degonville was given a civic reception by the Provost of Perth before his talk to the Perth Branch of the Franco-Scottish Society.