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DRAX Airlines Helicoper - James Bond "Moonraker" (1979).
It's still available for private flights, so never say never. The Space Shuttles, also used in this Bond movie are already for ever grounded.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte at the Movies event: - the house and its grounds were used as the Californian home of the main villain Hugo Drax (played by Michael Lonsdale) in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker. Nine Bond girls were present at the castle to meet them in person.
More events- also in the in the 1998 film "The Man in the Iron Mask". In addition, the château appeared in several episodes of "The Revolution". Also "Australia's Next Top Model" had a fashion shoot at the chateau and season 4 of HBOs "The Sopranos". More recently it has featured as the "Palace of Versailles" for BBC/Canal+ production of the TV drama series "Versailles". The place is a major setting of Alexandre Dumas's novel "The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later".
One of the most expensive wedding events was held at the palace in 2004. Vanisha Mittal, daughter of British-Indian steel industrialist billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, held her wedding to Amit Bhatia, a British-Indian economist and businessman, at the château following their engagement ceremony at the Palace of Versailles. Kylie Minogue was paid $330,000 to sing at the wedding and the ceremony was followed by fireworks launched from the Eiffel Tower.
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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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As made famous for generations of KSA students by Doug Graf's lectures (and his essay "World On A String"), Vaux-le-Vicomte is not merely a shockingly indulgent chateau-and-garden piece. Nor is it just the story of Louis XIV's finance minister (Nicholas Fouquet), who was thrown in jail shortly after the grand opening when Le Roi suspected his chief accountant of dipping into the royal coffers to finance the project. No, it is a "techno-fiction," the employment of cutting-edge technology to elaborate and discuss present, past, and future cosmologies. The technologies are Renaissance perspective and the emergence of landscape manipulation as an art form, in particular the ha-ha - the device of using slightly inclined planes of landscape to hide features behind each other. As you move through the gardens, their extents and contents seem to shift.
For example: at the original point of arrival (not pictured, as it is now difficult to access), the chateau appears to be united with two flanking buildings - as you get closer, it becomes apparent that it's a freestanding building. From the point of view of this picture, it appears to be standing on solid ground - but as you'll see in the next frame, it's surrounded by a moat, floating in a tray. These tricks become much more impressive (and exhausting) in the garden, where it always seems like you're just about to reach the terminal point of a hill capped by a statue. But it keeps slipping away, and meanwhile the chateau keeps following you, since the distance you've already crossed also gets progressively erased.
So what's the point? To Doug - and I apologize for mangling this through paraphrasing and editing - the whole thing articulates contrasting visions of the universe, the wilderness world of the gods (which is timeless) and the garden world of man (which is timed). The timed-ness of man's world is made clear by the fact that when you reach the statue and look back, all the gardens stand clearly revealed - except for the grotto level, which belonged to the supernatural gods' world anyway - and the chateau has slipped back into the engaged relationship with the flanking buildings. The reset button on a giant "arcade game" (Doug's phrase) has been pressed and the machine is primed to start over again. The gardens have a beginning and end, animated by Jupiter (who appears in a fresco in the round pavilion at the back of the chateau - where the gardens start) and Hercules (whose statue stands at the edge between garden and wilderness).
Doug's argument is, of course, considerably more elaborate and detailed, but I have passed on my copy of The Underground Graf Texts to the next interested party, following a sacred tradition, so I can't really quote him at length....
The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 kilometres (34 mi) southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne department of Île-de-France.
Built between 1658 and 1661 for 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.
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Nicolas Fouquets House
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Distance from Paris: 1 hour / 55 km by car.
Train travel (+ taxi): 50 minutes by train from Paris (Gare de Lyon), by RER D from Paris (Châtelet) to Melun; from Melun to Vaux-le-Vicomte: 6km by Taxi.
History of Vaux-le-Vicomte
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The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte {voh-luh-vee-kohnt'}, outside Paris, represents the crystallization of the French baroque château and was the model for the Palace of Versailles. However, during the early part of the 17th century, Vaux was merely a small castle situated at the confluence of two small rivers, between the royal residences of Vincennes and Fontainebleau. At the time, it was just a place on the map and its reputation was yet to be made.
Then, in 1641, a 26-year-old parliamentarian — Nicolas Fouquet (1615-1680) — purchased the estate. Descended from a line of parliamentarians, Fouquet's own father, François Fouquet, had been a trusted advisor to Cardinal Richelieu on maritime and commercial affairs. Attaining the high posts of procureur général (Attorney General) and financier in the parliament of Paris in 1650, the younger Fouquet had become a rapidly rising star in both national politics and personal finances, remaining true to his family crest — the squirrel — and to his motto, "Quo non ascendet" ("What heights will he not scale?"). The rank of officier also conveyed a particular status of nobility, la noblesse de la robe.
This form of nobility — as opposed to la noblesse de l'épée ("blue blood", or inherited nobility) — aspired to aristocracy, struggling endlessly to secure a place among the true nobles of France. Similar to the modern-day contrasts between "nouveaux-riches" and "old money" families, la noblesse de la robe tended to demonstrate more ostentatiously, through appearance and behaviour, that one had "arrived" and learned to live like a nobleman.
A series of troubling national events, including the depletion of the royal coffers, led to Cardinal Mazarin's appointment of Nicolas Fouquet as financial secretary in 1653. Fouquet's mission was to replenish the empty treasury, the better to fund Royal spending, to supply the needs of the administration and the war (against Spain), to cover the cost of court entertainments, and to satisfy the colossal greed of Mazarin. From his position of power, Fouquet was successful both in replenishing the royal treasury and in amassing his family's fortune.
A charming man of matchless intelligence, Nicolas Fouquet possessed a lively, winning manner, and an overarching ambition to live amid luxury and refinement. He loved the arts, letters, poets, flowers, pictures, tapestries, books, statues — in short, beauty and pleasure in every form. He showered artists with gifts, commissions, and encouragement, and in this way, attracted a distinguished circle of men which included, among others, La Fontaine and Molière, Nicolas Poussin, Puget, and La Quintinie
The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a baroque French château located in Maincy, France. French school children, accompanied by their teachers, from nursery to sixth level often visit Château de Vaux le Vicomte and its gardens. The future princes and princesses walk through the stately rooms in costumes, discussing traditional fairy tales.
This young man, dressed as an early 17th century French musketeer along with his female friend, appear to be a bit bored with the activities.
Maincy, France
Completed in 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Superintendent of Finances for Louis IV.
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The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 kilometres (34 mi) southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne department of Île-de-France.
Built between 1658 and 1661 for 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.
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Jardins du Vaux-le-Vicomte 11/06/2013 16h02
Unfortunately we didn't visit these beautiful gardens around the palace designed by landscape architect André le Notre. A good reason for a revisit!
Jardins du Vaux-le-Vicomte
The château rises on an elevated platform in the middle of the woods and marks the border between unequal spaces, each treated in a different way. This effect is more distinctive today, as the woodlands are mature, than it was in the seventeenth century when the site had been farmland, and the plantations were new.
Le Nôtre's garden was the dominant structure of the great complex, stretching nearly 3 kilometers, with a balanced composition of water basins and canals contained in stone curbs, fountains, gravel walks, and patterned parterres that remains more coherent than the vast display Le Nôtre was to create at Versailles.
The site was naturally well-watered, with two small rivers that met in the park; the canalized bed of one forms the Grand Canal, which leads to a square basin.
Le Nôtre created a magnificent scene to be viewed from the house, using the laws of perspective. Le Notre used the natural terrain to his advantage. He placed the canal at the lowest part of the complex, thus hiding it from the main perspectival point of view. Past the canal, the garden ascends a large open lawn and ends with the Hercules column added in the 19th century. Shrubberies provided a picture frame to the garden that also served as a stage for royal fêtes.
Le Nôtre employed an optical illusion called anamorphosis abscondita (which might be roughly translated as 'hidden distortion') in his garden design in order to establish decelerated perspective. The most apparent change in this manner is of the reflecting pools. They are narrower at the closest point to the viewer (standing at the rear of the château) than at their farthest point; this makes them appear closer to the viewer. From a certain designed viewing point, the distortion designed into the landscape elements produces a particular forced perspective and the eye perceives the elements to be closer than they actually are. This point for Vaux-le-Vicomte is at the top of the stairs at the rear of the château. Standing atop the grand staircase one begins to experience the garden with a magnificent perspectival view. The anamorphosis abscondita creates visual effects which are not encountered in nature, making the spectacle of gardens designed in this way extremely unusual to the viewer (who experiences a tension between the natural perspective cues in his peripheral vision and the forced perspective of the formal garden). The perspective effects are not readily apparent in photographs, either, making viewing the gardens in person the only way of truly experiencing them.
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Castle (Est.1658) with Herm figures fence. The fence artworks are by Mathieu Lespagnandelle (1616–1689), created between 1659 and 1661, some busts were not finished because of Nicolas Fouquet’s arrest. These busts have the particularity of having a double head in order to be seen from the exterior as well as inside the domain. Eight in total representing Hercule, Zéphyr, Vulcain, Apollon, Cérès, Mercury, Minerva and Flora.
These are just some of the many sculptures and statues at the estate created in the 17th century by famous sculptors.
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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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Chateau Vaux le Vicomte / France
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The dark, rich red colour pervades everything, and together with the gilded ceiling, the low painted wall panels and the ceiling decorated by Charles le Brun, it all adds to this experience of stunned awe. Opposite the large bed with its four posters and the red drapings hangs a splendid gilded mirror, and one cannot help but wonder if its place has always been there...
The room, which faces east, was decorated by Le Brun with mythological scenes of dawn and twilight in their respective places, of Gods and Goddesses of the Olympus. The walls are decorated with beautiful tapestries, and in Fouquet's days these tapestries, bearing his device, the squirrel, would have been overladen with shimmering gold threads.
Le jardin s’ordonne autour d’une perspective de plus de trois kilomètres. Cet axe majeur reflète la volonté d’innovation de Fouquet et de Le Nôtre. En composant la mise en scène du château et des communs dans l’espace de 40 hectares taillé au cœur de la nature, Le Nôtre et Le Vau réalisent la plus parfaite relation entre architecture et environnement paysagé de tout le 17e siècle et créent ici le premier grand jardin classique qui inspira de nombreuses variations.
Le château fut construit entre 1658 et 1661 pour le surintendant des finances de Louis XIV, Nicolas Fouquet. Ce dernier fit appel aux meilleurs artistes de l'époque pour bâtir ce château : l'architecte Louis Le Vau, premier architecte du roi (1656), le peintre Charles Le Brun, fondateur de l'Académie de peinture (1648), le paysagiste André Le Nôtre, contrôleur général des bâtiments du roi (1657) et le maître-maçon Michel Villedo. Leurs talents avaient déjà été réunis par le jeune Louis XIV pour construire des ailes au château de Vincennes en 1651-1653. Le roi refera appel à eux pour construire le château de Versailles, celui de Vaux-le-Vicomte servant alors de modèle.
Le 17 août 1661, Nicolas Fouquet donne au château une fête en l'honneur de Louis XIV. Cette fête organisée par François Vatel fut d'une grande splendeur. Pourtant, le 5 septembre 1661, le roi fait arrêter le surintendant de Fouquet pour malversions, à l'issue d'un conseil tenu à Nantes. Celui-ci mourra en prison. Le château, chef-d'œuvre de l'architecture classique est aujourd’hui la plus importante propriété privée de France.
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Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte 11/06/2013 17h37
Just a few late afternoon shots before leavind this beautiful castle, château or palace.
Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 km southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. It was built from 1658 to 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV. It is a lesser known fact that Vaux-le-Vicomte was the inspiration behind the Palace of Versailles, the crowning glory of French grandeur and splendor.
The château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. At Vaux-le-Vicomte, the architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on a large-scale project for the first time. Their collaboration marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. The garden's pronounced visual axis is an example of this style.
Period and style: Architecture classique
Architect: Louis Le Vau
Construction: 1656 - 1661
First owner: Nicolas Fouquet
Coordinates: 48° 33′ 57″ Nord 2° 42′ 51″ Est
Site: www.vaux-le-vicomte.com
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Les Grottes section with statues and sculptures. In a formal garden designed by landscape architect André le Nôtre.
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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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Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte 11/06/2013 16h04
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Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 km southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. It was built from 1658 to 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV. It is a lesser known fact that Vaux-le-Vicomte was the inspiration behind the Palace of Versailles, the crowning glory of French grandeur and splendor.
The château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. At Vaux-le-Vicomte, the architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on a large-scale project for the first time. Their collaboration marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. The garden's pronounced visual axis is an example of this style.
Period and style: Architecture classique
Architect: Louis Le Vau
Construction: 1656 - 1661
First owner: Nicolas Fouquet
Coordinates: 48° 33′ 57″ Nord 2° 42′ 51″ Est
Site: www.vaux-le-vicomte.com
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The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is
a baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 km southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne département of France.
It was built from 1658 to 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of
Louis XIV. It is a lesser
known fact that Vaux-le-Vicomte was the inspiration behind the Palais de Versailles, the
crowning glory of French grandeur and splendor.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte
Le château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, situé sur le territoire de la commune française de Maincy (Seine-et-Marne), à 50 km au sud est de Paris près de Melun est un château du xviie siècle (1658-1661), construit pour le surintendant des finances de Louis XIV, Nicolas Fouquet.
Ce dernier fit appel aux meilleurs artistes de l'époque pour bâtir ce château : l'architecte Louis Le Vau, premier architecte du roi (1656), le peintre Charles Le Brun, fondateur de l'Académie de peinture (1648), le paysagiste André Le Nôtre, contrôleur général des bâtiments du roi (1657) et le maître-maçon Michel Villedo. Leur talent avait déjà été réuni par le jeune Louis XIV pour construire le château de Vincennes en 1651-1653. Le roi refera appel à eux pour construire le château de Versailles, celui de Vaux-le-Vicomte servant alors de modèle.
Le château, chef-d'œuvre de l'architecture classique du milieu du xviie siècle, est aujourd'hui la plus importante propriété privée classée au titre des monuments historiques1 depuis son achat en juillet 1875 par Alfred Sommier qui y fit œuvre de mécène, poursuivie par ses descendants.
The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 km southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. It was built from 1658 to 1661 for 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. At Vaux-le-Vicomte, the architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on a large-scale project for the first time. Their collaboration marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. The garden's pronounced visual axis is an example of this style.
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Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte 11/06/2013 17h31
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A brief visit through the gardens before leaving the property of Vaux-le-Vicomte.
Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 km southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. It was built from 1658 to 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV. It is a lesser known fact that Vaux-le-Vicomte was the inspiration behind the Palace of Versailles, the crowning glory of French grandeur and splendor.
The château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. At Vaux-le-Vicomte, the architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on a large-scale project for the first time. Their collaboration marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. The garden's pronounced visual axis is an example of this style.
Period and style: Architecture classique
Architect: Louis Le Vau
Construction: 1656 - 1661
First owner: Nicolas Fouquet
Coordinates: 48° 33′ 57″ Nord 2° 42′ 51″ Est
Site: www.vaux-le-vicomte.com
[ Source and much more information: Wikipedia - Vaux-le-Vicomte ]
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The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne département of France.
Constructed from 1658 to 1661 for 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. At Vaux-le-Vicomte, the architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on a large-scale project for the first time.
Their collaboration marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. The garden's pronounced visual axis is an example of this style.
The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 kilometres (34 mi) southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne department of Île-de-France.
Built between 1658 and 1661 for 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.
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A view from the roof of the Chateau.
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Le Nôtre's other work included the design of many gardens and parks, including those of Chantilly, Chateau Fontainebleau, Racconigi, Saint-Cloud, Saint-Germain-en-Laye and St. James's Park. He also collaborated with Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun on the park of the Vaux-le-Vicomte.
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The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a classical French chateau located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 km southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. It was built from 1658 to 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle-Isle (Belle-Ile-en-Mer), Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.
Vaux-le-Vicomte was in many ways the most influential work built in Europe in the mid-17th century, the finest house in France built after the Château de Maisons.
Le château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, situé sur le territoire de la commune française de Maincy, à 50 km au sud-est de Paris, près de Melun est un château du XVIIᵉ siècle, construit pour le surintendant des finances de Louis XIV, Nicolas Fouquet. Il appartient désormais à une branche cadette des marquis de Vogüé.
Eléments protégés :
Au sud de la route de Melun à Champeaux : château, communs et tous bâtiments, clôtures, grilles, jardins avec leurs terrasses et statues, bassins, pièces d'eau, réservoirs, cours d'eau et partie du parc les entourant jusqu'aux limites portées sur le plan annexé à l'arrêté (à l'ouest, côté ouest de l'allée dite route de Maincy, mur sud du potager, clôture ouest du parc à l'extrémité du canal ; au sud, une ligne à 50 mètres au delà de la lisière des parties boisées qui entourent le canal et la grande pelouse de l'Hercule, y compris le réservoir à ciel ouvert, suivant ensuite l'allée de la Gerbe et la lisière des parties boisées autour de l'extrémité est du canal ; à l'est, la ligne du côté ouest de l'allée des Sapins). En dehors de ces limites : deux aqueducs d'adduction d'eau sous la grande allée nord-sud derrière la statue d'Hercule et sous la grande allée nord-ouest/sud-est partant du rond-point de l'Hercule (dite allée des Granges) et réservoirs souterrains dans toute leur étendue. Au nord de la route de Melun à Champeaux : rond-point et grande allée nord-sud dite allée des Tilleuls, dans toute sa longueur, y compris la rangée de tilleuls qui les bordent et les deux files d'arbres en arrière de cette rangée (parties délimitées par une teinte verte sur le plan annexé à l'arrêté) : classement par arrêtés du 22 novembre 1929 et du 4 avril 1939 - Totalité du parc (délimité en bleu sur le plan annexé à l'arrêté) (cad. A 1 à 26, 32, 34 à 39, 41 à 47 ; B 1 à 180 ; C1 1 à 14 ; C2 15 à 36) : classement par arrêté du 23 juin 1965 - Parcelles dépendant du parc du château (cad. Moisenay A 1p, 2, 3, 4p, 5, 6, 976, 977) : classement par arrêté du 11 mars 1968 - Partie de la route départementale 215 située entre la route nationale 36 et la route départementale 126, ancienne voie d'accès monumental au château (cad. non cadastré) : classement par décret du 26 décembre 1994Le château, chef-d'œuvre de l'architecture classique du milieu du XVIIe siècle, est aujourd’hui la plus importante propriété privée de France classée au titre des monuments historiques
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The Farnese Hercules (Italian: Ercole Farnese) is an ancient statue of Hercules, probably an enlarged copy made in the early third century AD and signed by Glykon, who is otherwise unknown; the name is Greek but he may have worked in Rome.
Like many other Ancient Roman sculptures it is a copy or version of a much older Greek original that was well known, in this case a bronze by Lysippos (or one of his circle) that would have been made in the fourth century BC.
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Costumes of the TV-series "Versailles", very detailed so we did only miss the actors.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte at the Movies event: - the house and its grounds were used as the Californian home of the main villain Hugo Drax (played by Michael Lonsdale) in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker. Nine Bond girls were present at the castle to meet them in person.
More events- also in the in the 1998 film "The Man in the Iron Mask". In addition, the château appeared in several episodes of "The Revolution". Also "Australia's Next Top Model" had a fashion shoot at the chateau and season 4 of HBOs "The Sopranos". More recently it has featured as the "Palace of Versailles" for BBC/Canal+ production of the TV drama series "Versailles". The place is a major setting of Alexandre Dumas's novel "The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later".
One of the most expensive wedding events was held at the palace in 2004. Vanisha Mittal, daughter of British-Indian steel industrialist billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, held her wedding to Amit Bhatia, a British-Indian economist and businessman, at the château following their engagement ceremony at the Palace of Versailles. Kylie Minogue was paid $330,000 to sing at the wedding and the ceremony was followed by fireworks launched from the Eiffel Tower.
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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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The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 kilometres (34 mi) southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne department of Île-de-France.
Built between 1658 and 1661 for 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.
Source: Wikipedia