Nicolas Fouquet.

Nicolas Fouquet was Luis XIV´s minister of finance during firsts years of his reign, he was a
generous man, he was lover of opulent parties, beautiful women and poetry. He had extravagant
life and loved the money. Fouquet was the king’s indispensable collaborator.
In 1661 the prime minister Jules Mazarin died, and the finance minister hoped to be designate
as successor, but the king decided to suppress this position. Fouquet begun to suspect that the
king don’t like him, and he was falling in misfortune, therefore he decided to please the king.
Fouquet decide to organize the most amazing party never watched before.
The official motive of the party was The Fouquet’s castle inauguration, the castle was called
Vaux-le-Vicomte, but the actual objective of Fouquet was honoring the king who was invited
honor. The most important representatives of the nobility and the most brilliant minds from this
time as: La Fontaine, La Rochefoucauld and Madame of Sévigné attended the party. Moliére
wrote a tether play where himself would act.
The party started with an opulent supper of seven plate, where were served different oriental
plates never tasted before in France. The dinner was accompanied with music composed in
honor of the king. After dinner, the guests strolled for the palace’s gardens. Fouquet
accompanied the young the king to a walk for the geometric shrubbery. When they arrived in a
special place in the garden, all of they enjoyed of the fireworks and after, the play of Moliere.
The party was until late and everybody were agreed that they never had lived an amazing
celebration like that.
On next day, Fouquet was arrested by the king’s musketeer called D’ Artagnan. Three months
later, was judged for embezzlement of national treasure. Really the funds were substrate for the
Crown and approved by the king. Fouquet was found guilty and he was sent to a prison away
from France, in the top of pyrenes, where he stayed his last twenty years alone.