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NEVER OUTSHINE THE MASTER
JUDGMENT
Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your
desire to please and impress them, do not go too far in displaying
your talents or you might accomplish the opposite—inspire fear and
insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are
and you will attain the heights of power.
TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW
Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV’s finance minister in the first years of his
reign, was a generous man who loved lavish parties, pretty women, and
poetry. He also loved money, for he led an extravagant lifestyle. Fouquet
was clever and very much indispensable to the king, so when the prime
minister, Jules Mazarin, died, in 1661, the finance minister expected to be
named the successor.
Instead, the king decided to abolish the position. This
and other signs made Fouquet suspect that he was falling out of favor, and
so he decided to ingratiate himself with the king by staging the most
spectacular party the world had ever seen. The party’s ostensible purpose
would be to commemorate the completion of Fouquet’s château, Vaux-leVicomte, but its real function was to pay tribute to the king, the guest of
honor.
The most brilliant nobility of Europe and some of the greatest minds of
the time—La Fontaine, La Rochefoucauld, Madame de Sévigné attended
the party. Molière wrote a play for the occasion, in which he himself was to
perform at the evening’s conclusion. The party began with a lavish seven-
course dinner, featuring foods from the Orient never before tasted in France,
as well as new dishes created especially for the night. The meal was
accompanied with music commissioned by Fouquet to honor the king.
After dinner there was a promenade through the château’s gardens. The
grounds and fountains of Vaux-le-Vicomte were to be the inspiration for
Versailles.
Fouquet personally accompanied the young king through the
geometrically aligned arrangements of shrubbery and flower beds. Arriving
at the gardens’ canals, they witnessed a fireworks display, which was
followed by the performance of Molière’s play. The party ran well into the
night and everyone agreed it was the most amazing affair they had ever
attended.
The next day, Fouquet was arrested by the king’s head musketeer,
D’Artagnan. Three months later he went on trial for stealing from the
country’s treasury. (Actually, most of the stealing he was accused of he had
done on the king’s behalf and with the king’s permission.)
Fouquet was
found guilty and sent to the most isolated prison in France, high in the
Pyrenees Mountains, where he spent the last twenty years of his life in
solitary confinement.
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