[2] "Baroness Gabrielle van Zuylen personifies the charm and elegance", according to the French magazine L'ŒIL.

[3] Gabrielle van Zuylen was born in southern France, daughter of Andrés Iglesias y Velayos, the Spanish consul in Perpignan, and his wife Mildred Taliaferro.

The Van Zuylen couple bought the property Haras de Varaville in Normandy in 1964.

[4] Gabrielle van Zuylen later wrote the book The Gardens of Russell Page, which is about his influence in landscape architecture.

An interview between Van Zuylen and Éditions Gallimard took place on the occasion of the publication of Tous les jardins du monde (UK ed.