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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René Clair electedTo Académie française
Jean-Jacques Ampère memberOf Académie française
Cuvier memberOf Académie française
subject surface form: Georges Cuvier
Buffon memberOf Académie française
Prix de l’Académie française awardedBy Académie française
Prix de l’Académie française establishedBy Académie française
François Guizot memberOf Académie française
Reign of Louis XIV culturalInstitution Académie française
Saint-Julien memberOf Académie française
subject surface form: Claude Bernard
Jean memberOf Académie française
subject surface form: Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier
French literature hasNotableInstitution Académie française
Adolphe Thiers memberOf Académie française
Louis de Broglie memberOf Académie française
Jean Cocteau memberOf Académie française
Ludovic Halévy memberOf Académie française
les immortels memberOf Académie française
subject surface form: Les Immortels
Jean de La Fontaine memberOf Académie française
Prudhomme memberOf Académie française
subject surface form: Sully Prudhomme
Sully memberOf Académie française
subject surface form: Sully Prudhomme
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac memberOf Académie française
Paul Valéry memberOf Académie française
Paul Claudel memberOf Académie française
Ernest Renan memberOf Académie française
Marcelin Berthelot memberOf Académie française
Palais de l’Institut de France houses Académie française
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat memberOf Académie française
Michel Serres memberOf Académie française
French classicism associatedWith Académie française
Edmond Rostand memberOf Académie française
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac electedTo Académie française
Louis Barthou memberOf Académie française
Georges-Louis memberOf Académie française
subject surface form: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French theatre hasRegulatoryBody Académie française
Charles de Freycinet memberOf Académie française
Pierre Corneille memberOf Académie française
Pierre Corneille electedTo Académie française
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux memberOf Académie française
Jean-François Marmontel memberOf Académie française
François Furet memberOf Académie française
Émile Borel memberOf Académie française
House of Noailles memberOf Académie française
subject surface form: Paul de Noailles
Ancien Régime in Paris hasCulturalInstitution Académie française
Hippolyte Taine memberOf Académie française
Maalouf memberOf Académie française
subject surface form: Amin Maalouf
Richelieu family associatedWithInstitution Académie française
Early Modern French codifiedBy Académie française