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... Fouquet this chateau encompasses many if the alluring techniques used at the time in architecture, art and of course landscape architecture. Fouquet brought together the best in the business and asked them to build him a home. The project turned out so ...

... responsible for Versailles.  The story behind Vaux le Vicomte is full of greed, conspiracy, politics and jealousy.  Nicolas Fouquet was responsible for bringing France back economically.  He also was good to people and knew how to make ...

... 15 years by the French finance minster, Fouquet, who worked for one of the many King Louis.  Basically, the story is that Fouquet had this castle built and he was very popular and very wealthy.  He threw a party and invited the young King ...

... most people don't know that the latter is a result of the Sun King's jealousy over Vaux-le-Vicomte's splendor. Nicolas Fouquet, the brilliant and successful finance secretary to Louis XIV, built the château for his own enjoyment. The famous landscape ...

... , was very jealous of the chateau and the garden and it is said that this inspired him to build Versailles. The King also had Fouquet arrested on charges relating to stealing from the Treasury and imprisoned for the rest of his life. The chateau is very ...

... , because there was the cutest little girl playing on the steps in front of us. I did catch though, that Nicolas Fouquet lived there, a financial advisor to Louis XIV. Anyways, this chateau was really cool looking, the garden was absolutely beautiful. ...

... best of the best of the best shops. Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and countless other designers and restaurants. In the middle was Fouquet's, the most famous restaurant in France. It is the restaurant to the stars and the President. We then walked down the ...

... a diamond watch for 100,000 euro! Crazy! Enough dreaming, we continued down the Champs Elysees and past a restaurant called Fouquet's where Barak Obama, Jackie O and many other celebrities have eaten. Some of the entrees are 40 euro! We wandered through ...

... spacious 19thC neoclassical temple of art displays a fine collection of 14th to 20th century Flemish painting. A highlight is Jean Fouquet's Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels, the mid-15thC dating of which defies credulity, distorting the chronology ...

Hey everyone, Yesterday morning I got up at seven so I could get ready for the three hour ride on train through the Chunnel (short form for channel and  tunnel). At the train station we had gone through security and Customs an hour early (I knew we ...

Cannes is a shoppers paradise. Every label you have ever heard of has a shop on the front but boy do you need some money to shop here. It was great to walk about and see how the other half lives.  We had a nice room with a small balcony that was ...