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Louis Le Vau

French architect

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Baroque architecture

  • James Paine and Robert Adam: Kedleston Hall
    In Western architecture: France

    …from which François Mansart and Louis Le Vau developed their succession of superb country houses.

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  • Paris; Eiffel Tower
    In Paris: The Institute of France

    Louis Le Vau designed the additional buildings in 1663 to house the College of the Four Nations (Collège des Quatre-Nations), paid for by a legacy from Louis XIV’s minister Cardinal Mazarin, who had brought the four entities in question—Pignerol (Pinerolo, in the Italian Piedmont), Alsace,…

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French literature

Tuileries Palace

  • Tuileries Palace
    In Tuileries Palace

    Louis Le Vau, in the 17th century, also contributed to the structure. In the gardens that survive, an arch from Delorme’s loggia was rebuilt; it is an example of his French Ionic order.

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