Louis Le Vau was a French

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 Classical

Classical architecture

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 architect

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 who worked for Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV of France

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. He was born and died in Paris

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He was responsible, with André Le Nôtre

André Le Nôtre

André Le Nôtre was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France...

 and Charles Le Brun

Charles Le Brun

Charles Le Brun , a French painter and art theorist, became the all-powerful, peerless master of 17th-century French art.-Biography:-Early life and training:...

, for the redesign of the château of Vaux-le-Vicomte

Vaux-le-Vicomte

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. His later works included the Palace of Versailles

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 and his collaboration with Claude Perrault

Claude Perrault

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 on the Palais du Louvre

Palais du Louvre

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. Le Vau also designed two mirroring additions across the Parterre to the evergrowing Château de Vincennes

Château de Vincennes

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, the Château du Raincy

Château du Raincy

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, the Hotel Tambonneau, the Collège des Quatre-Nations

Collège des Quatre-Nations

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 (now housing the Institut de France

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), the church of St. Sulpice

Saint-Sulpice (Paris)

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, and Hôtel Lambert

Hôtel Lambert

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, on the Île Saint-Louis

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, Paris

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