Question: Who founded the royal academy of painting and sculpture in france?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: Who founded the royal academy of painting and sculpture in france by approving a petition?
Who founded the royal academy of painting and sculpture in france by making a petition for it?
answer: Louis XIV
the whole Royal Council
Anne of Austria
Pierre Séguier
several more artists
Martin de Charmois
Natural Questions answer: King Louis XIV (from the Wikipedia article "Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture")