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Forging cannon

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Description: Louis Le Vau: Mazarin’s Collège, Colbert’s Revenge
~AS PAUL FRÉART DE CHANTELOU tells it, Louis Le Vau was a scoundrel who made money improperly off the Collège. In conversation with Gianlorenzo Bernini one September day in 1665, he recounted a disturbing story. After buying one of Le Vau’s earliest townhouses, the Hôtel Bautru (1634–37), Jean-Baptiste Colbert had learned...
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.108-126
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00077.007

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