The forms of simplified, straighten the line. There straightening legs, the surface becomes easier. There is widespread use of the ancient heritage (forms, motifs) and simultaneously improving happening Baroque and Renaissance styles.

It becomes compulsory symmetry. Applied technology start marquetry, reduced use of gold and bronze. Chairs and chairs obivayutsya fabrics with floral ornament. Popular colors: mahogany plus light bronze finish.

Shapeburst backs are becoming stricter in their decor imposed ancient Greek and Roman motifs - swords, helmets, shields, as well as Egyptian: Sphynx images in the decoration of furniture; stalk chairs and tables on the Egyptian-shrinking downwards Popular white. Often used colored paints (white, green), combined with light gilding individual parts.

For Louis XIV - "King-sun", believes that "the state - that's me", of course, classicism seemed the only style that can express the ideas of wisdom and power of the sovereign, reasonableness polity, tranquillity and stability in society. The internal struggle, vzvolnovannost, collisions, so obvious in the art of Baroque, does not correspond to the ideals of clarity and logic of French absolutism.

Louis H IV was made that choice between the two styles during the competition at the East facade of the Louvre project. He rejected the draft of the outstanding Baroque architect Lorenzo Bernini, despite all its merits and world fame (the very insulted the great master), expressed a preference for a simple and restrained draft Claude Perrault, composure in the strict classic spirit