He was one of the last representatives of the Baroque style of French organ school.
Ten years before he died the church authorities made him an honorary canon.
Neither the composer nor the music were known until the late 1990s, when Joseph Scherpereel discovered seven autograph manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Inguimbertine of Carpentras.
Archimbaud's works include a massive Livre d'orgue [de Carpentras], six masses, two Magnificats and four settings of Dixit Dominus.
The style combines simple, songlike melodies, and features that are typical of French Baroque organ music.