the French Academy

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• The French Academy —     The French Academy     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The French Academy     The French Academy was founded by Cardinal de Richelieu in 1635. For several years a number of learned gentlemen, such as Godeau, de Gombeaud, Giry, Chaplain, Habert, de… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The American Academy of Arts and Letters — is a 250 member organization whose goal is to foster, assist, and sustain excellence in American literature, music, and art. It is located in Washington Heights, a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, in New York, on a Beaux Arts campus that is… …   Wikipedia

• French Academy in Rome — The French Academy in Rome ( fr. Académie de France à Rome) is an Academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio (Pincian Hill) in Rome, Italy.HistoryThe Academy was founded at the Palazzo Capranica in 1666 by Louis …   Wikipedia

• French Academy (disambiguation) — The French Academy is the pre eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language.French Academy may also refer to:* French Academy in Rome, an art school in Italy * French Academy of Sciences, a scientific society * French… …   Wikipedia

• French Academy of Technologies — The French Academy of Technologies ( Académie des technologies ) is a learned society, founded in 2000, with an emphasis on technology. It is the newest of French academies. Since 2007, it has acquired the status of établissement public , which… …   Wikipedia

• French Academy —    The French Academy was established in Paris in 1648 to prevent the city s guild from placing restrictions on artists. The founding members (the Le Nain brothers, Laurent de la Hyre, Charles Lebrun, and others) petitioned Louis XIV, then a… …   Dictionary of Renaissance art

• The New Academy — The New Academy, or the New Exchange is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by Richard Brome. It was first printed in 1659.Performance and publication The New Academy was premiered onstage in 1636. [Steggle, p. 222.] The play was entered… …   Wikipedia

• French Academy of Sciences — For the National Academy of Medicine, see Académie Nationale de Médecine. Colbert Presenting the Members of the Royal Academy of Sciences to Louis XIV in 1667 The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences) is a le …   Wikipedia

• French Academy — noun an honorary group of French writers and thinkers supported by the French government the French Academy sets standards for the use of the French language • Hypernyms: ↑academy, ↑honorary society * * * an association of 40 scholars and men and …   Useful english dictionary

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• The Episcopal Academy — Infobox Private School background = #f0f6fa border = #ccd2d9 name = The Episcopal Academy motto = Esse Quam Videri ( To Be Rather than to Seem to Be ) established = 1785 type = Private religion = Episcopalian headmaster = L. Hamilton Clark city …   Wikipedia