Académie d'architecture

The Académie royale d'architecture (Royal Academy of Architecture) was a French learned society founded on December 30, 1671 by Louis XIV, king of France under the impulsion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Its first director was the architect and theorist François Blondel (1618-1686). Suppressed in 1793, this Académie was later merged in 1816 into the Académie des beaux-arts, together with the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648) and the Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669).The Académie des beaux-arts is now one of the five Académies of the Institut de France.
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