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French Renaissancesearch for term: This secular style of architecture and art arrived in France at the end of the 15th century and coincides with the invasion of Italy in 1494. Eventually supplanted that of the Flamboyant Gothic the style was popular until end of the 16th century and is characterized by the architecture for the châteaux of the Loire Valley. The period is divided into two styles that of the Early Renaissance up until about 1`530, and that of Mannerism, from 1530 until it in turn gave way to the Baroque in about 1610. The earlier style of architecture is epitomized by the Château d'Amboise, and the Palace of Fontainebleau being an example of Mannerism.