Académie française

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The Académie française is France’s preeminent learned society responsible for regulating the French language and overseeing matters of linguistic and literary standards.


Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural institution
language regulator
learned society
awards language prizes
literary prizes
country France
EnglishName French Academy
fieldOfWork French literature
language policy
linguistics
founder Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu
foundingDate 1635
foundingPurpose to fix the French language
to give rules to the French language
to render the French language pure, eloquent and capable of treating the arts and sciences
hasOfficialWebsite https://www.academie-francaise.fr/
hasOrgan perpetual secretary
hasTypeOfMember foreign associate
full member
headquartersBuilding Institut de France
headquartersLocation Paris
historicalContext founded under the reign of Louis XIII
inceptionPeriod 17th century
influences French literary standards
French orthographic norms
official French neologisms
jurisdiction French language used in France
languageRegulated French language
legalStatus public institution
location Paris
mainPublication Dictionnaire de l’Académie française
meetingPlace Salle des séances of the Académie française
memberOf Institut de France
membershipType les immortels
motto À l’immortalité
nativeLabel Académie française
notableWork successive editions of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française
numberOfMembers 40
parentOrganization Institut de France
partOf French academies of the Institut de France
primaryRole definition of French vocabulary
regulation of the French language
standardization of French grammar
standardization of French spelling
publicationType dictionary
regionServed Francophone world
regulates official French dictionary
selectionProcess cooptation by existing members


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