Les Secrets du Chateau de Vaux le Vicomte

Perfect beyond perfection. Either you know what Vaux-le-Vicomte is,  in absolute cultural (story of history historical) terms--and in architectural and esthetic terms--or you don't. But those of you who don't, yet, appreciate the vision of Nicholas Fouquet, should maybe begin by reading that delicious letter of Mme. de Sévigné, where she describes, as one of the invitees, Fouquet's fateful, enchanting, mid-Virgo mistake-party. The biggest, or at least the most sensationally beautiful, blow-out of its kind in the history of the world.