 After Charles VIII's death in 1498, both men continued to be employed by Louis XII at Blois, whence he had removed the court.At the Château de Gaillon, begun in 1502, Georges Cardinal d'Amboise employed Pacello on the gardens.Neither there, nor at Amboise or Blois, where the foundations of the castles crowned steep defensible sites, was Pacello able to tie the axes of his garden parterres to a facade of the château in any meaningful way, as was becoming the usual practice on sloping sites below Italian villas.