The Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a Baroque French chateau located in Maincy, near Melon, 55 kilometres southeast of Paris. Built between 1658 and 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Ile, Viscount of Melon and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV, the chateau was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th century Europe.
