Musings about St. Roch Church (Paris)
Tombs by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
Le Nôtre’s Tomb in St. Roch is inspiration for a film. Le Nôtre designed the gardens at Vaux-le-Vicomte and at Versailles.
Louis
XIV went to a dinner at Vaux-le-Vicomte held by his finance minister
Fouquet. Fouquet served the king on
gold-plate dishes, which angered Louis XIV, because all of his gold was melted
down to pay Swiss mercenaries for his many border wars.
Louis
XIV asked Fouquet to do one last financial operation and, then, arrested him.
Louis
XIV brought Fouquet’s architect Le Vau, writer of fairy tales Perrault, and Le
Nôtre to the plain of Versailles to build his imposing and well-visited palace.
The
book entitled The Sun King’s Garden: Louis XIV, André le Nôtre and the Creation
of the Gardens of Versailles by Ian Thompson speculates that Le Nôtre was Louis
XIV’s only friend. They rode in separate
carriages, but spoke about the state of the gardens often.
Fouquet’s
mistress Louise de la Vallière also became Louis XIV’s mistress once the King
imprisoned Fouquet.
The
moral of this story is to not make the King jealous of your wealth and flaunt
it or he will seize your property to give my blog an ending, or moral with a
lesson, like Perrault’s Fairy Tales.
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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