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Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte - Visites, informations pratiques, horaires
Chateau Vaux le Vicomee (1658-61) Maincy, Seine Dept. Built for Nicholas Fouquet, superintendent of finances of Louis XIV. Fouquet's home very lavish. Jean Baptiste Colbert coninvced Louis XIV that Fouquet misappropriated public funds. Fouquet dismissed, Colbert hired & then arrested Fouquet. House was sequestered. Louis seized tapestries, statues and orange trees and sent team of artists to design palace and gardens of Versailles. Opened to the public, 1968