• -famous for its “Galerie des Glaces” (Hall of Mirrors)
  by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in a lavish interior of marble and goldwork

-gardens represent the finest extant example of French garden
design

• -by Salomon de Brosse in French baroque
  -was modelled after Palazzo Pitti in Florence

• -one of the largest French royal chateaux

• -by Gilles Le Breton

• -UNESCO World Heritage, 1981

-2nd largest triumphal arch in the world

-by Jean Chalgrin

-was inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus

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  - famous “jube” or rood screen in Renaissance details extending
  across the aisles has double staircases with ornate balustrades

• - a hybrid of Gothic and Renaissance forms

-by Philibert de L’Orme

• -has classical façade with 3 orders by Salomon de Brosse
  - a fine example of French Baroque

- its dome is the largest ever built and one of the first in Paris

• - plan was patterned from IL Gesu Chuch in Rome

• - classical Baroque façade by Francois Derand

by Jacques Lemercier with superimposed orders

by Francois Mansart with classical façade

• mismatched towers
• plain façade for Baroque church
• proposed pediment on the façade by Servandoni was never built
• notable for its organ

by Giovanni Servandorni with a 2-storey narthex

• -hospital for military soldiers and disabled war veterans
  - burial place of France's distinguished military figures like
  Napoleon Bonaparte
  - dome is finished in 12.65 kilos of gold leaf

• - by Jules Hardouin-Mansart