Pierre I Desgots

Pierre I Desgots ( – 1675) was a French gardener who helped to maintain and create French formal gardens at the Tuileries and the Palais-Cardinal in Paris. He was the brother-in-law of the famous French garden designer André Le Nôtre and the grandfather of the landscape architect Claude Desgots. ) married Martin Bocquet, a gardener at the Cours-la-Reine, a promenade created by Queen Marie de' Medici along the Seine. His older brother Jean II Desgots (died 1624 Pierre I Desgots married Elisabeth (Ysabel) Le Nôtre, sister of André Le Nôtre, on 10 February 1625. The couple had a son, Pierre II Desgots (1630–1688), who also became a gardener and worked closely with André Lenôtre. After the death of Pierre I's wife in 1632, the inventory of her belongings listed garden tools and flowers, but no books. The flowers included anemones, tulips, white and yellow daffodils, jonquils, crocuses, Persian tulips, hepatics, and buttercups, among others. where he received wages of 1200 livres for maintaining the palisades and alleys of the garden and park of the Tuileries and probably later created new alleys there in 1668–1670, when the garden was redesigned by André Le Nôtre.