The Chateau Vaux le Vicomte was hands down, my favorite place in Paris. It was another one of our bus excursions outside of Paris and we bussed on a Saturday night to see the palace and the candles that lit up around it after the sun went down. It was built from 1658-1661 by Louis Le Vau for the kinds superintendent of finances, Nicolas Fouquet, and Le Vau later went on to design Versailles.
What made the palace so amazing was the lack of tourists and the realistic experience that we had as visitors. There are many different illusions that the gardens create for the viewer. One of them is that the gardens have what is called “anamorphosis abscondita” which allows the garden design to have a decelerated perspective. The pools look narrower at the closest point to the viewer than the farther ones. At the farthest point in the gardens, there is a canal and the statue of hercules lies on the other side.
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