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“On August 17, 1661, on a dusty road in the Île-de-France, a parade of carriages and men on horses approached the château of Vaux-le-Vicomte, thirty-four miles southeast of Paris. France’s superintendent of finance, Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle-Île and Comte de Melun et de Vaux, had invited 6,000 people to what would be remembered as one of the most magnificent and momentous fêtes in the nation’s history. The”
― Robert B. Abrams, Versailles: A History