A stately home

Fouquet, the young Louis IV , superintendent of finances.  A very rich man! He gathered the best gardeners, architects etc etc and made an incomparable palace.   He arranged a fantastic feast for the king who saw all this grandeur, greater than his own and emprisonned Fouquet in a castle in the Alpes where he died a number of years later! 

Voltaire who wrote about the event, concluded by stating: "At 6:00pm, Fouquet was greater than the King! At 2:00am, he was nobody!"..

Later Louis IV enlarged his predecessor’s hunting lodge, using the same people as Fouquet did, to the splendour and grandeur of the palace at Versailles!

Then we went into Melun where we ate and I finally had my wish for a ‘religieuse’! We sat at a table by the Seine and ate our cakes!


Tomorrow home !