Word: vaux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amid the extravagances of 17th century Italy, given its distinctive form by Bernini and Borromini. Yet the more restrained variant that France developed has proved almost as influential, and has inspired countless castles and churches, palaces and gardens. France's first great baroque monument was the chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte, built between 1656 and 1660. This year, for the first time in centuries, visitors can view Vaux-le-Vicomte in all its oldtime splendor...
Time to Disgorge. Splendid though the Chambre may be, le roi never slept in it. For the story of Vaux-le-Vicomte is of an older man who overreached himself. The man was Nicolas Fouquet, an urbane nobleman who had become France's Finance Minister a year before the young Louis was crowned at the age of 15. He thought of Louis as a young whippersnapper, and with some justice he felt he had been of more service to the state. Renowned as a courtier, conversationalist and diplomat, he had devised dozens of ingenious schemes to finance France...
...During the first nine months of 1967, pub sales enjoyed a 4% increase over the same period of the previous year. But October saw a 6% slump. British brewers are now beginning to take stock, and what they see is grim indeed. Bass Charrington reported trade off by 4%. Vaux Breweries, losing money in Scotland, threatens to raise prices. Whitbread sees little prospect of improving profits in the year ahead. Bucking the Trend. Only Britain's second largest beermaker, Allied Breweries (Ind Coope, Tetley Walker, Ansells), is bucking the national trend. During four critical weeks ending Nov. 24, Allied...
...scholars had long admired the careful work of L'Ecole Biblique's scholars in the field of archaeology, the school came to secular fame only in 1949, when the Jordanian government entrusted it with collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls. One of its professors, French Dominican Roland de Vaux, is head of the international committee translating the scrolls into modern languages. De Vaux also headed the 36 scholars who prepared the Bible de Jérusalem, the first translation to take advantage of the scrolls' discoveries, including an early script of Isaiah. Located near the Damascus Gate...
...would be a sound idea to embody and run the state from one place, where he could keep his royal eye on the great nobles. Actually, the idea seems to have been suggested by the ambitions of the Minister of Finance, Nicolas Fouquet, who, at his chateau of Vaux-le Vicomte was unwise enough to out-status the King with "the insolent and audacious luxury" of a house-warming for 6,000 people. With "mingled admiration and fury," the King banished Fouquet to a fortress and decided to outbuild everyone in the known world. Thus was the Bourbon system brought...