Vaux-le-Vicomte - palace of Nicholas Fouquet, whose name in Artois dialect meant squirrel

from http://www.thegardenvisitor.co.uk: Beside the Grotto at Vaux le Vicomte can be found a pair of allegorical stone statues of a lion protecting a squirrel. The lion was meant to represent Louis XIV, the tiny squirrel Nicolas Fouquet (whose name in Artois dialect meant ‘squirrel’). A successful financier, Fouquet had been appointed Superintendent of Finances by Cardinal Mazarin, the first minister during Louis’s minority.

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