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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural institution
language regulator
learned society
awards language prizes
literary prizes
country France
EnglishName Académie française self-linksurface differs
surface form: French Academy
fieldOfWork French literature
language policy
linguistics
founder Cardinal Richelieu
surface form: 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
surface form: French language
legalStatus public institution
location Paris
mainPublication Dictionnaire de l’Académie française
meetingPlace Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France
surface form: Salle des séances of the Académie française
memberOf Institut de France
membershipType les immortels
motto À l’immortalité
nativeLabel Académie française self-link
notableWork successive editions of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française
numberOfMembers 40
parentOrganization Institut de France
partOf Institut de France
surface form: 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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Sully Prudhomme memberOf Académie française
Montesquieu memberOf Académie française
Swedish Academy namedAfter Académie française
this entity surface form: Académie française (as a model)
Swedish Academy inspiredBy Académie française
Cardinal Richelieu founded Académie française
this entity surface form: Académie Française
French regulatingBody Académie française
Academia Brasileira de Letras inspiredBy Académie française
Dutch Language Union cooperatesWith Académie française
Louis Dieudonné patronOf Académie française
Pierre-Simon Laplace memberOf Académie française
Henri Poincaré memberOf Académie française
Jean d’Alembert memberOf Académie française
Claude Bernard memberOf Académie française
Institut de France hasPart Académie française
Institut de France precededBy Académie française
this entity surface form: Académie française (as independent body)
Georges Cuvier memberOf Académie française
Louis Pasteur memberOf Académie française
this entity surface form: Académie Française
Claude Lévi-Strauss memberOf Académie française
René François Armand Prudhomme memberOf Académie française
René François Armand Prudhomme electedTo Académie française
Académie française nativeLabel Académie française self-link
Académie française EnglishName Académie française self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: French Academy
Victor Hugo memberOf Académie française
Ferdinand de Lesseps memberOf Académie française
6th arrondissement of Paris contains Académie française
Marquis de Condorcet memberOf Académie française
Jean-Sylvain Bailly memberOf Académie française
Jean-Sylvain Bailly electedTo Académie française
French royal court patronized Académie française
this entity surface form: Académie Française
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing memberOf Académie française
Raymond Poincaré memberOf Académie française
Louis Leprince-Ringuet memberOf Académie française
Étienne Gilson member of Académie française
Jean Racine memberOf Académie française
Jean Racine electedTo Académie française
Eugene Ionesco memberOf Académie française
French royal academies notableMemberOf Académie française
Assia Djebar memberOf Académie française
ABL inspiredBy Académie française
subject surface form: Academia Brasileira de Letras
Philippe Quinault memberOf Académie française
Philippe Quinault electedTo Académie française
François de Neufchâteau memberOf Académie française
Joseph Kessel memberOf Académie française
François Mauriac memberOf Académie française
Simone Veil memberOf Académie française
Marcel Pagnol memberOf Académie française
Marcel Pagnol electedTo Académie française
Perpetual Secretary of the Académie française associatedWith Académie française
this entity surface form: French Academy
René Clair memberOf Académie française