When around 1620 Louis XIII decided to transform his hunting chalet at Versailles, the creation of the first garden was entrusted to Boyceau who joined forces with his nephew Jacques de Menours to finish the task successfully. In service to Louis XIII, he redesigned the parterres at Château-Neuf in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, at the Louvre and at the Tuileries. After the assassination of Henri IV, while his first patron put himself at the head of the Protestant revolt in Montauban, Boyceau was the foreman of the garden at Marie de Medicis’ palais du Luxembourg. With the war over, Boyceau entered into a career as landscape architect serving Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, Maréchal de France and who was a survivor of the Saint Barthélémy massacre. After he won Henri IV’s confidence, the king awarded him the title of “gentilhomme ordinaire de la Chambre du roi” in 1602. Stemming from minor nobility, a Huguenot and warrior, he was first awarded for his military feats and diplomacy with the post of “trésorier garde général” in the artillery. Jacques Boyceau de la Barauderie (1560-1633?) was a native of Saint-Jean d’Angély near La Rochelle.
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