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Louis Le Vau Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography (590 words) |
 | The French architect Louis Le Vau (1612-1670) was one of the creators of the French classical style, which dominated the academic architecture of the 17th century. |
| Louis Le Vau was born in Paris, the son of a master mason of the same name. |
| Le Vau collaborated closely at Vaux with the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun and the landscape architect André Le Nôtre. |
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| Le Vau was under tremendous pressure as a result of the demands put on him for the Collège (and after rejection of his project for the Louvre) by an authoritarian Colbert who was uninformed, indeed insecure about his judgment on matters of style. |
| Le Vau received a pension of 6,000 livres as first architect, and he was paid only 1,000 livres for the plans for the Collège, a paltry sum for such a work. |
| Le Vau's library is that a of a quite well-educated person for whom architecture was a general element along with lay and profane classics, architecture and mathematics treatises, history (Davila), and recent literary works by Madeline Scudéry, Chapelain and La Calprenède. |
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