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
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Rhythmic massing of the entrance front
Moonraker (film)
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Moonraker is a 1979 spy-fi film, the eleventh in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The third and final film i
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…or 70, according to the owners. For example, the property was used as the California home of the main villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker. It can also be seen in the background in the 1998 film The Man in the Iron Mask. In addition, the château appeared in several episodes of The Revolution…
Theatrical release poster by Dan Gouzee
The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte was used for Drax's chateau in the film. An extensive aerial view of the site was witnessed by helicopter in the early stages of the film by Bond and Dufour arriving.
Stuntman Richard Graydon slipped and narrowly avoided falling to his death during the filming of the cable car sequence at Sugarloaf Mountain.
The climax with the laser battle on Drax's space station. Moonraker holds the world record for the largest number of zero gravity wires in one scene.