Vaux-le-Vicomte
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The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte or simply Vaux-le-Vicomte is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 km southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne department of Île-de-France.
View from the rond d'eau of the garden
Fouquet
Colbert
Rhythmic massing of the entrance front
Charles de Batz de Castelmore, also known as d'Artagnan and later Count d'Artagnan, was a French soldier who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard. He died at the siege of Maastri
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…Colbert led the king to believe that his minister's magnificence was funded by the misappropriation of public funds, resulting in his arrest by d'Artagnan. Later, Voltaire was to sum up the famous fête: "On 17 August, at six in the evening Fouquet was the King of France: at two in the morning he was…
Illustration from Courtilz de Sandras' novel Les mémoires de M. d'Artagnan.
Château de Castelmore
Statue of d'Artagnan in Maastricht
St Peter and Paul Church altar, where d’Artagnan may have been buried