Prince Monfort and Bulbaski ascended the horseshoe staircase and finally reached the highest point of the courtyard in front of Fontainebleau Palace.
Standing at the highest point, Prince Monfort turned around and looked down at the courtyard below the stairs, seeing a cross-shaped path paved with stone bricks and plane trees planted on either side, perfectly dividing the courtyard's garden into four smaller gardens.
At this time, as it was still around early spring, the garden, having suffered from the previous year's wind and snow, had not fully revived, leaving each part of the garden particularly desolate.
However, this desolation was not the kind of ruin left by decaying structures but more like an indescribable poetic ambiance.
If it were the time of blooming summer or early autumn, the garden would display a scene full of vigor and vitality.
