French architecture

French architecture, structures created in the area of Europe that is now France.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Modern French Architecture
• The Nineteenth Century
• The Eighteenth Century
• The Seventeenth Century
• The Renaissance
• The Flowering of French Architecture
• Early Architecture
• Bibliography

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