tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC – THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 11

THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 11 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 11 The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte situated about a league from Melun had been built by Fouquet in 1653. There was then but little money in France Mazarin had taken all that there was and Fouquet had expended the remainder. However as certain men have fertile faults and useful vices Fouquet in scattering broadcast millions of money in the construction of this palace had found a means of bringing as the result of his generous profusion three illustrious men together - Levau the architect of the building Lenotre the designer of the gardens and Lebrun the decorator of the apartments. If the Château de Vaux possessed a single fault with which it could be reproached it was its grandiose pretentious character. It is even at the present day proverbial to calculate the number of acres of roofing the reparation of which would in our age be the ruin of fortunes cramped and narrowed as the epoch itself. Vaux-le-Vicomte when its magnificent gates supported by caryatides have been passed through has the principal front of the main building opening upon a vast court of honor enclosed by deep ditches bordered by a magnificent stone balustrade. Nothing could be more noble in appearance than the forecourt of the middle raised upon the flight of steps like a king upon his throne having around it four pavilions forming the angles the immense Ionic columns of which rise majestically to the whole height of the building. The friezes ornamented with arabesques and the pediments which crown the pilasters confer richness and grace upon every part of the building while the domes which surmount the whole add proportion and majesty. This mansion built by a subject bore a far greater resemblance to a royal residence than those that Wolsey fancied he must present to his master for fear of rendering him jealous. But if magnificence and splendor were displayed in any one particular part of this palace more than in .