Le Vau
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Around the corner along the quai at No. 17 is the Hôtel de Lauzun, finished in 1657 by the architect Louis Le Vau, which also seemed to captivate Atget.
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2010
He summoned Louis Le Vau, the leading architect of the day, Charles Le Brun, a painter and interior decorator, and a landscape designer named Andr� Le N�tre.
From Time Magazine Archive
Le Vau did not live to see the completion of the palace.
From The Story of Versailles by Payne, Francis Loring
Nicholas Fouquet had employed the most renowned masters of this period--among them Louis Le Vau, the architect, Andr� Le N�tre, the landscape gardener, and Charles Lebrun, the decorator.
From The Story of Versailles by Payne, Francis Loring
Acting immediately upon his resolution to out-do the glories of Vaux-le-Vicomte, Louis engaged Le N�tre to plan gardens and Le Vau to submit proposals for the enlargement and decoration of the chateau.
From The Story of Versailles by Payne, Francis Loring
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