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unusual facts about French Academy



Abdelfattah Kilito

Some of the awards Kilito has won are the Great Moroccan Award (1989), the Atlas Award (1996), the French Academy Award (le prix du Rayonnement de la langue française) (1996) and Sultan Al Owais Prize for Criticism and Literature Studies (2006).

Barthélemy Menn

When the latter decided to give up his studio to take the post as director of the French Academy in the Villa Medici in Rome, Menn returned to his grandparents in Coinsins before following his master in fall 1834.

Jean-Sifrein Maury

He tried his fortune by writing éloges of famous persons, then a favorite practice; in 1771, his Éloge on Fénelon was pronounced by the French Academy as second only to that by La Harpe.

Louis Moinet

There he came into regular contact with members of the French Academy which brought together the most illustrious artists of the time.

Marielle Gallo

She is the wife of famous French historian and member of the French Academy, Max Gallo.

Thomas Joseph King

They were awarded in 1972 the highest honor of the French Academy: the Gran Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer of the Académie des Sciences, Institut de France and were the first Americans to be so honored.


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André Marie Constant Duméril

Under the Restauration, he was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences (French Academy of Sciences) and succeeded, after 1803, Lacépède, who was occupied by his political offices, as professor of herpetology and ichthyology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

Bour's minimal surface

It is named after Edmond Bour, whose work on minimal surfaces won him the 1861 mathematics prize of the French Academy of Sciences.

George-Barthélemy Faribault

The epitaph written by the French Academy at the time the subject was first brought up and approved by William Pitt, was duly inscribed.

Organisation for the Prevention of Blindness

Jean-Loup Dabadie: Writer, Journalist, Playwright, Scriptwriter and Member of the French Academy.

Tardieu

Auguste Ambroise Tardieu (1818-1879), pre-eminent forensic medical scientist of the mid-19th century; President of the French Academy of Medicine, as well as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Legal Medicine at the University of Paris.

Walter French Academy

Walter French Academy, also known as the Walter French Academy of Business and Technology and the Walter French Junior High School is a 3-story building located at the corner of Mount Hope and Cedar in Lansing, Michigan.