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| Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte | |
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.JPG) View from the rond d'eau of the garden | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Château |
| Architectural style | Baroque |
| Town or city | Maincy |
| Country | France |
| Construction started | 1656 |
| Completed | 1661 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Louis Le Vau |
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 (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. 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.[1]