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    second class of the Institut became the Académie Française. Since 1816, the existence of the Académie Française has been uninterrupted.[citation needed]...
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  • This is a list of members of the Académie française (French Academy) by seat number. The primary professions of the academicians are noted. The dates shown...
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    academies of the sciences, literature and arts, among them the Académie française and the Académie des sciences. Also in 1795, The academy determined these...
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    The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française is the official dictionary of the French language. The Académie française is France's official authority on the...
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    and prominence among European nations. Richelieu established the Académie française to protect the French language. By the early 1800s, Parisian French...
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    Latin, which was the language used by the Roman Catholic Church. The Académie française was established in 1635 to act as the official authority on the usages...
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  • the Académie française. Along with the Prix Goncourt, the award is one of the oldest and most prestigious literary awards in France. The Académie française...
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    Philippe Pétain (category Expelled members of the Académie Française)
    increased expenditure. In 1931 Pétain was elected a Fellow of the Académie française. By 1932 the economic situation had worsened and Édouard Herriot's...
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    Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (category Members of the Académie Française)
    until her death in 2023, she served as the Perpetual Secretary of the Académie Française, to which she was first elected in 1990. Carrère d'Encausse was a...
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  • century, with the publication of the first French dictionary by the Académie française, there were attempts to reform French orthography. This has resulted...
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    François Cheng (category Members of the Académie Française)
    in France "Discours de réception de François Cheng – Académie française". www.academie-francaise.fr. Price, A. "Lacan's Remarks on Chinese Poetry". Hurly-Burly...
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    The Académie Française (English: French Academy) is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was...
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    a French learned society, grouping five académies, including the Académie Française. It was established in 1795 at the direction of the National Convention...
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    Victor Hugo (category Members of the Académie Française)
    After three unsuccessful attempts, Hugo was finally elected to the Académie française in 1841, solidifying his position in the world of French arts and...
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  • This list of Former prizes awarded by the Académie française includes the Prix de l'Académie française [fr] which no longer exists (as of 2016). Prix Albéric...
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  • authored several art books. He won the Prix Charles Blanc from the Académie française for Peintres et sculpteurs écrivains d’art in 1961. His wife, Eugénie...
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    Santa Cecilia for music from 1585; Paris had the Académie Royale de Musique from 1669 and the Académie Royale d'Architecture from 1671. The Accademia degli...
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  • by the Le Robert dictionary but is not officially accepted by the Académie Française. Grammatical gender in French consists of two genders: the masculine...
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    Jean-Baptiste Colbert (category Members of the Académie Française)
    regulate the guilds. The Académie des sciences was founded in 1666 at his suggestion; he was a member of the Académie française from 1 March 1667 to his...
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    Jean d'Ormesson (category Members of the Académie Française)
    d'Ormesson. "Jean d'ORMESSON". Académie française. Retrieved 7 December 2017. "Jean d'Ormesson, an 'immortal' of the Académie Française, dies at 92". The Washington...
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    Léopold Sédar Senghor (category Members of the Académie Française)
    the Académie française on 2 June 1983, at the 16th seat where he succeeded Antoine de Lévis Mirepoix. He was the first African to sit at the Académie. The...
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  • literature in France and disagreed with the contemporary policies of the Académie Française. Wishing to honour his deceased brother Jules (1830–1870), Goncourt...
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  • 2022 at the age of 78. He obtained ten votes in the election at the Académie Française on February 7, 2008 where he applied to the succession of Bertrand...
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    Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (category Members of the Académie Française)
    Ferdinand and Merit Husainid Family Order Member of the Académie française. Member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques The duke of Aumale...
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    Voltaire (category Members of the Académie Française)
    resulted in an eleven-month imprisonment in the Bastille. The Comédie-Française had agreed in January 1717 to stage his debut play, Œdipe, and it opened...
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    Jean Raspail (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    2 February 2019. Release Académie française. La patrie trahie par la république Le Figaro, 17 June 2004 Académie française, Prix Jean Walter Lauréats...
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    Louis Pasteur (category Members of the Académie Française)
    the Académie Nationale de Médecine and was made the commander in the Brazilian Order of the Rose. In 1881 he was elected to a seat at the Académie française...
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    edu". college-de-france.academia.edu. "Prix Montyon | Académie française". www.academie-francaise.fr. "William Marx | Academia Europaea". www.ae-info.org...
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    Amin Maalouf (category Members of the Académie Française)
    2010 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He is a member of the Académie française and was elected its Perpetual Secretary on 28 September 2023. Maalouf...
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    Pierre Corneille (category Members of the Académie Française)
    medieval Spanish warrior, which was denounced by the newly formed Académie française for breaching the unities. He continued to write well-received tragedies...
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