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    Vaux-le-Vicomte - Wikipedia

    • 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 infl… See more

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    Once a small château between the royal residences of Vincennes and Fontainebleau, the estate of Vaux-le-Vicomte was purchased in 1641 by Nicolas Fouquet, an ambitious 26-year-old member of the Parlement … See more

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    The château is situated near the northern end of a 1.5-km long north–south axis with the entrance front facing north. Its elevations are perfectly symmetrical to either side of this axis. Somewhat surprisingl… See more

    Architectural styleBaroque
    Completed1661
    Town or cityMaincy
    CountryFrance
    Use in film, television and popular culture

    The château buildings and grounds have been used in at least 13 productions, a full 70, in fact, according to the owners. For example, the property was used as the California home of the main villain Hugo Drax (played … See more

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    The forerunner of Versailles, it is the most important château built in France in the mid-17th century; it was here that Le Vau, Le Brun and Le Nôtre learned to work as a team and to produce the unity of architecture, interior decoration, and …

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    Le château de Vaux le Vicomte est l'oeuvre de Nicolas Fouquet, surintendant des finances de Louis XIV. Oeuvre fondatrice du jardin à la française, il est est un modèle d'harmonie entre architecture et paysage.