Nicholas Fouquet, arch politician and ambitious courtier of King Louis XIV took a squirrel as his emblem when he built his great house.

Charles Le Brun decorated the interior rooms at château Vaux-le-Vicomte with painted ceilings and tapestries by the Gobelins brothers on the walls.

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