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Castle corridor first floor - Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Maincy/FR)

Longitudinal corridor on the first floor - it leads to several rooms. Fouquet's apartment, courtyard side, and his wife's garden side, twelve meters thick, with an antechamber, a bedroom (main room of an apartment where the relatives have free access, it is the place of sociability where they sleep, receive guests, take meals and study.

 

Currently, Ms. Fouquet's room is divided into two rooms, a Louis XV cabinet and a Louis XV bedroom. The right part of the first floor is only briefly worked on.

 

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Vaux-le-Vicomte (Est.1658) - a baroque French château on a 33 hectares (100 acres) estate with formal gardens along a three-kilometer axis. Built between 1658 to 1661 as a symbol of power and influence and intended to reflect the grandeur of Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.

 

The château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. The architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on this large-scale project. This marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. Their next following project was to build Versailles.

 

See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux-le-Vicomte

 

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Uploaded on May 10, 2018
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