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France's architectural legacy is rich and important, reflecting the power and personality of successive kings, the Church and the state, vying to outdo their peers with bold, lavish statements in brick and stone. Many architectural trends filtered into France from Italy - Romanesque, Renaissance and Baroque - but they have been refined and developed by the French. Rococo grew from Baroque, Neoclassicism came from the Renaissance, and Art Nouveau was a brilliant, confused jumble of Baroque features combined with the newly developed cast-iron industry. Architecture this century has produced two great names - Auguste Perret and Le Corbusier - but France's contemporary scene is still thriving, with a host of new developments throughout the country Other useful information
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