according to the designs of the famous Le Vau, I have engraved your marvelous picture on copper; I want to portray you anew in this book, Since my hand knows the arts of engraving and writing. Late career It is now thought that François Le Vau created the initial designs for the Église Saint-Louis-en-l'Île, formerly attributed to Louis Le Vau. Begun in 1664, only the sanctuary and part of the choir had been completed at the time of François's death in 1676. Further construction was carried out by . In 1667 François created a project for the south portal of the transept of the Cathédrale d'Orléans. In 1664–1665, according to the Comptes des Bâtiments, François Le Vau received an "exceptional" salary of 3,467 livres, as well as 1,000 livres per year as an architect in the Bâtiments du Roi. In 1671, he became one of the eight founding members of the Académie Royale d'Architecture (created by Louis XIV), for which he was paid an additional 500 livres per year. On 15 July 1675 the members of the Académie Royale d'Architecture gathered in the church of the Collège des Quatre-Nations to consider three alternative locations for Cardinal Mazarin's tomb: centered under the dome (as originally intended by Louis Le Vau, the architect of the Collège); in the altar on the right side; or in a niche in the far (west) wall, opposite the courtyard entrance. In March 1676 they submitted their opinions (avis). François was one of the majority opposing a location under the dome, because, as he put it, "this church is not a mausoleum, like the Valois Chapel", thus disagreeing with the premise of his brother's design and (according to the architectural historian Hilary Ballon) "giving vent to rivalrous feelings that evidently outlasted Louis's lifetime." François Le Vau died at his residence (today 49, quai de Bourbon) at the western tip of the Île-Saint-Louis in Paris. Notes Bibliography Babelon, Jean-Pierre (1976). "Le château de Sucy-en-Brie, oeuvre de François Le Vau," Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Île-de-France, vol. 101–102 (1974–1975), pp. 83–102. . . Ballon, Hilary (1999). Louis Le Vau: Mazarin's Collège, Colbert's Revenge. Princeton: Princeton University Press. . Berger, Robert W. (1970). "Charles Le Brun and the Louvre Colonnade", The Art Bulletin, vol. 52, no. 4 (December), pp. 394–403. . Berger, Robert W. (1982). "Le Vau, François", vol. 2, p. 695, in Macmillan Encyclopedia