The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [ʃato də vo lə vikɔ̃t]) is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 kilometres...
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Prior to working on Versailles, Le Nôtre collaborated with Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun on the park at Vaux-le-Vicomte. His other works include the design...
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Employed at Vaux-le-Vicomte, Le Brun ingratiated himself with Cardinal Mazarin, then secretly pitting Jean-Baptiste Colbert against Fouquet. Le Brun was...
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Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux (French pronunciation: [nikɔla fukɛ]; 27 January 1615 – 23 March 1680) was the Superintendent...
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Château (section Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte)
the French nobility or royalty. However, some fine châteaux, such as Vaux-le-Vicomte, were built by the essentially high-bourgeois—people but recently ennobled:...
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materials. The château incorporates elements inspired by the château Vaux-le-Vicomte and the Palace of Versailles. In 2015, the chateau was purchased by...
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French formal garden (section Vaux-le-Vicomte)
Chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte, created for Nicolas Fouquet, the Superintendent of Finances to Louis XIV, beginning in 1656. Fouquet commissioned Louis Le Vau to...
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Nicolas Fouquet, Vaux-le-Vicomte with the help of André Le Nôtre and Charles Le Brun. Le Vau's most notable work in the Vaux-le-Vicomte is the oval salon...
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Pierre Puget (section Vaux-le-Vicomte and Genoa)
Minister of Finance, to make sculpture for Fouquet's new garden at Vaux-le-Vicomte, including a statue of Hercules, the personal symbol of Fouquet. These...
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empeños de una casa. Gardens at Vaux-le-Vicomte, France, by André Le Nôtre, 1657–1661 Gardens of Versailles, by André Le Nôtre, begun in 1661 Gardens of...
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