Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France)

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Name (Latin)
Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France)
Other forms of name
France. Ministère de la culture et de la francophonie. Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres
AIBL (Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres)
Académie des inscriptions (France)
Institut de France. Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres
Institut national de France. Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France)
Institut de France. Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
France. Ministère de la culture. Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
France. Ministère de la culture et de la francophonie. Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
Institut national de France. Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France : 1844)
Institut royal de France. Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres
Institut impérial de France. Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres
Academia Inscriptionum et Humaniorum Litterarum Francogallicae
AIBL (Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France))
Associated country
France
Field of activity
Civilization
Learning and scholarship
Philology
Associated Language
fre
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 126085610
Wikidata: Q337526
Library of congress: n 50052670
Sources of Information
  • Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres Web site, 9 November 2015:main page (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres; l'AIBL) Présentation (founded in 1663 under the reign of Louis XIV; is one of the 5 academies of Institut de France; since 1805, it has been located in the Palais of the Institut; under the name Académie des inscriptions et médailles (1683), it was originally charged with finding Latin and French mottoes (devices) to be written on the king's buildings, medals, and money; mission, since 1701: the advancement and diffusion of knowledge in the fields of classical antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the civilizations of the Near and Far East; today, it is also turning to other continents, particularly through Amerindian studies; history, archeology, history of art, philology and linguistics, literature, and the history of ideas, as well as related disciplines (epigraphy, numismatics, diplomatics, etc.); publications, including the oldest scientific journal still existing, Journal des savants, founded in 1665) Histoire de l'Académie (founded by Colbert 3 February 1663 as an informal working group; Académie royale des inscriptions et médailles; by ordnance of 16 July 1701, Académie royale des inscriptions was elevated to the rank of a State institution; took its definitive name Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres by royal decision 4 January 1716 (also called Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres); first volume of Mémoires de l'Académie appeared in 1717; on 8 August 1793, the Convention suppressed it and other royal academies; law of 25 October 1795 created Institut national des sciences et des arts, with three classes, including Littérature et beaux-arts; 23 January 1803, a new organization was proposed: the Institut national consisted of four classes, including the third, Histoire et littérature anciennes -- in other words, the former Académie royale des inscriptions et belles lettres; 21 March 1816, by royal ordinance, Louis XVIII revived the traditional names of the 4 classes as academies grouped under the Institut, including Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres; since 1816, Académie des inscriptions has continued to be ruled by the dispositions of the ordinance of 1816)
  • Histoire et mémoires de l'Institut royal de France, Classe d'histoire et de littérature ancienne, T. 4. (1818)
  • Its Comptes rendus des séances ... 1857-1899:t.p. (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres); 1900: t.p. (Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres) p. 1 (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres); 1960, surrogate: t.p. (Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres) caption t.p. (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres)
  • Its Comptes rendus des séances de ... 1857:p. 1, etc. (1663, functions of what later became the Académie began with 4 members of the Académie française; 1701, established as Académie des inscriptions et médailles [no publs. in LC database]; 1713, establishment confirmed by letters patent; 1716, reorganized, name chgd. to Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres; 1793, dissolved; 1795, Institut national des sciences et des arts founded & organized into 3 classes. Former members of the Académie distributed among sections of 2nd & 3rd classes; 1803, Institut reorganized into 4 classes. 3rd class: Classe d'histoire et de littérature ancienne, corresponded to the former Académie; 1816, 3rd class resumed name: Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres)
  • Histoire et mémoires de l'Institut royal de France, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, T. 5. (1821)-t. 9. (1831)
  • Mém. de l'Institut royal de France, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, T. 10. (1833)
  • Mém. de l'Institut national de France, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, T. 16., 1. ptie. (1850); T. 45. (1975)
  • Mém. de l'Institut impérial de France, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, T. 18., 1. ptie. (1855)
  • Mémoires présentés par divers savants à l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres de l'Institut de France, 1. sér., t. 1 (1844)
  • Saône-et-Loire, 1994:t.p. (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Ministère de la culture et de la francophonie)
  • Inscriptiones Deli, 1912:t.p. (Academiae Inscriptionum et Humaniorum Litterarum Francogallicae)
  • Les frères Reinach, 2008:t.p. (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres; AIBL)