The Temple de l'Amour (Temple of Love) is a small circular neoclassical pavilion on an island in the English garden of the Petit Trianon, designed by Richard Mique in 1778. It stands on twelve Corinthian columns and houses Bouchardon's sculpture Cupid Cutting his Bow from the Club of Hercules — a copy; the original is in the Louvre. The original was placed here by Marie Antoinette and reportedly depicted a young man with the features of her favourite, the Swedish nobleman Axel von Fersen.
The pavilion is reached by a small bridge and sits in a landscape of winding paths, a cascade, and weeping willows — the Anglais garden that was the counterpoint to Le Nôtre's geometry. From the bridge you can see the Belvédère pavilion to one side and the lake to the other.
The Temple of Love is one of the most photographed spots in the Trianon gardens, and deservedly: it is exactly what an 18th-century garden pavilion should be — beautiful, delicate, and slightly melancholy in the way that all garden follies eventually become.