sentences:  Nevers' secretary, Blaise de Vigenère, a distinguished antiquarian and art historian, wrote that the house had a vault, built by Italian workmen, which was more grand than the one at the Baths of Caracalla.Although De Vigenère likely overstated the size, it must have been very impressive and was an architectural feature that was new to Paris.Nevers became one of the important patrons of the arts and sciences in 16th-century France.