Le Grand Siècle
Under Louis XIV architecture became an affair of state. The French Baroque was more restrained and classical than the Italian, and it served the glory of the king.
Vaux-le-Vicomte, built in 1658–1661 by Le Vau, Le Brun and Le Nôtre, became the model for Versailles, which the king extended into the most imitated palace in Europe. Jules Hardouin-Mansart designed the Hall of Mirrors and the dome of the Invalides.
The academy of architecture was founded in 1671 and gave French architecture rules and training for more than two hundred years.