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    The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [ʃato də vo lə vikɔ̃t]) is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 kilometres...
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    The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard [lə vikɔ̃t də bʁaʒəlɔn u diz‿ɑ̃ ply taʁ]) is a novel...
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    Ouilly-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [uji lə vikɔ̃t] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Communes...
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    Prior to working on Versailles, Le Nôtre collaborated with Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun on the park at Vaux-le-Vicomte. His other works include the design...
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    French nobility or royalty. However, some fine châteaux, such as Vaux-le-Vicomte, were built by the essentially high-bourgeois—people but recently ennobled:...
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    of Vaux-le-Vicomte, created for Nicolas Fouquet, the Superintendent of Finances to Louis XIV, beginning in 1656. Fouquet commissioned Louis Le Vau to design...
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    Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ sovœʁ lə vikɔ̃t]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. It is...
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    Employed at Vaux-le-Vicomte, Le Brun ingratiated himself with Cardinal Mazarin, then secretly pitting Jean-Baptiste Colbert against Fouquet. Le Brun was the...
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    Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux (French pronunciation: [nikɔla fukɛ]; 27 January 1615 – 23 March 1680) was the Superintendent...
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    Nicolas Fouquet, Vaux-le-Vicomte with the help of André Le Nôtre and Charles Le Brun. Le Vau's most notable work in the Vaux-le-Vicomte is the oval salon...
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    Fontenay-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃tnɛ lə vikɔ̃t] ) is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. Inhabitants...
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  • Meigné-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [mɛɲe lə vikɔ̃t] ) is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. On 15 December 2016...
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    materials. The château incorporates elements inspired by the château Vaux-le-Vicomte and the Palace of Versailles. In 2015, the chateau was purchased by Saudi...
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    The Château de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte is a ruined castle in the commune of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte in the Manche département of France. The castle,...
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    Les Essarts-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [lez‿esaʁ lə vikɔ̃t]) is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. The river Aubetin has...
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    Pommerit-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [pɔmʁit lə vikɔ̃t]; Breton: Pañvrid-ar-Beskont) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in...
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    novels The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845), and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and the other two...
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    18th century 19th to 21st century The islet belongs to the French commune of Le Mont-Saint-Michel, in the département of Manche, in Normandy. The nearest...
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    Minister of Finance, to make sculpture for Fouquet's new garden at Vaux-le-Vicomte, including a statue of Hercules, the personal symbol of Fouquet. These...
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    LIA198509 - Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust". collections.shakespeare.org.uk. "RSC Performances | LIA198601 - Les Liaisons Dangereuses...
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    empeños de una casa. Gardens at Vaux-le-Vicomte, France, by André Le Nôtre, 1657–1661 Gardens of Versailles, by André Le Nôtre, begun in 1661 Gardens of the...
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  • Essarts-lès-Sézanne, in the Marne département Les Essarts-le-Vicomte, in the Marne département Several communes have a similar name: see Les Essards (disambiguation)...
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    century, Saints Innocents was neighbour to the principal Parisian marketplace Les Halles, and already filled to overflowing. To make room for more burials...
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  • commune of Rambouillet Vaux-le-Vicomte (pictured below) Château de Maisons-Laffitte Château de Pierrefonds Vaux-le-Vicomte Modern Palace of Versailles...
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    Vaux-le-Vicomte. Louis XIV was impressed by the château and its gardens, which were the work of Louis Le Vau, the court architect since 1654, André Le Nôtre...
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    comprising Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and Claude Perrault. Vaux le Vicomte by Louis Le Vau (1658) The Louvre Colonnade by Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and...
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  • Quincy-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [kɛ̃si lə vikɔ̃t]) is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. Communes of the Côte-d'Or department...
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    from March 23, 1782. It is the story of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two amoral lovers-turned-rivals who amuse themselves by ruining...
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    Abbey of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (French: Abbaye de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte), located in the commune of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte in the Manche department...
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    later inheritance from a childless uncle — was born at Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Manche in Lower Normandy. In 1827 he went to the Collège Stanislas de...
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