In the history of technology, Louis Le Vau is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Louis Le Vau as French architect (1613–1670).
Louis Le Vau was born at Paris in 1613. His recorded nationality is France.
The seventeenth century built the machinery of public intellectual life - societies, journals, correspondence networks - and reputations could be made at a distance.
He worked as architect and artist.
Among his principal works are Château de Meudon, Palace of Versailles and Château du Raincy. Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
His recorded fields of work are architecture.
That the work was done from France matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Louis Le Vau died in 1670, aged 57. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Notable work: Château de Meudon
- Notable work: Palace of Versailles
- Notable work: Château du Raincy
- Notable work: Vaux-le-Vicomte
- Worked as architect and artist
