Nicolas Fouquet
At Vaux-le-Vicomte, the architect Le Vau contrived a jewel-like private "cabinet" for the king's minister of finance Nicolas Fouquet that was entirely hung with panels of Venetian looking-glass; later, Louis XIV's "Grand Cabinet" at Versailles (swept away in 18th-century revisions in the name of even more private royal spaces) was similarly mirror-lined: "the king's self-directed gaze was at once religious and narcissistic" as Orest Ranum has observed.