The Château Vaux-le-Vicomte, situated near Paris, belonged to Nicolas Fouquet, the Superintendent of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 under King Louis XIV. He built this château and then invited the king to visit it. The king got extremely envy about the magnificent building and took Fouquet arrested. After that, he invited the same workers, the architect Louis Le Vau, the painter Charles Le Brun, and the garden designer André le Nôtre to work in his own château, the famous Versailles, to look what it is nowadays.