Académie de Marine
.jpg) Académie de marine emblem | |
| Formation | 1752 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
| Location | |
Official language | French |
President | Professor Jean-Pierre Quéneudec |
Key people | Antoine Louis Rouillé (Founder) |
| Website | http://www.academiedemarine.com |
The Royal Naval Academy of France (
Louis XV
.
de Morogues was named the Academy's first president and the institution gathered in astronomers, hydrographers, mathematicians and so on, including such names as
La Pérouse's expedition to the Solomon Islands which later disappeared. The Academy contributed greatly to the improvement of navigational instruments, and its graduates included Étienne Eustache Bruix
.
The institution disappeared temporarily from 1764 to 1769, at the end of the
Académie des sciences by an edict of 1771, but was finally suppressed by the National Convention on 8 August 1793 at the same time as all the other academies. It was restored again under the Empire
as the "Académie de marine" and continues its work today.
External links
- Official website
(in French) - Text of the decree of 2 April 1991 on the reorganisation of the Académie de marine
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |