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0 Euro - Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
| Issuer | Eurosouvenirs (UEBV) |
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of the façade of the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Seine-et-Marne, département 77) centred on the note, with the squirrel emblem of Nicolas Fouquet at lower left. Inscriptions include the château name, serial prefix, denomination, and CEO/UEBV authority text within a decorative border. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Mona Lisa at right, flanked by a composite panel of six European landmarks: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken-Pis (Brussels). Printer and country-of-manufacture inscriptions appear at lower centre. |
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Vaux-le-Vicomte is the reason Versailles exists. Nicolas Fouquet completed the château in 1661 and threw a housewarming so extravagant — three thousand guests, entertainment by Molière, fireworks over Le Nôtre's gardens — that Louis XIV, humiliated by a subject's superior taste, had him arrested weeks later. The king then poached his architect, painter, and landscape designer wholesale for the royal building program at Versailles.
Oberthur Fiduciaire prints the Eurosouvenirs series under UEBV licensing, with genuine euro-format security features on each note despite zero legal tender status anywhere. The 2026 dating makes this among the more recent château issues in the collector souvenir sequence.