Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen
The Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Rouen is a learned society created by letters patent of
Louis XV
on 17 June 1744.
The Academy of
Parliament on 10 February 1757. The first director was Tiphaigne La Roche, and its first benefactor was the abbé Legendre
.
As with all French academies, abolished by the
Seine-Inférieure department, Count Beugnot and the mayor of Rouen, Pierre Nicolas de Fontenay [fr
], rechartered it in 1803. The academy recovered its archives and records on 29 June 1803, but not its library or its garden. On 1 June 1804, new letters of patent approved its new charter, which was later confirmed on 10 June 1828.
A decree dated 12 April 1852 has granted the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen public utility status.
In the absence of a
university
, the Académie has played, until 1965, a key role in the development of the movement of ideas in Rouen.
Its headquarters are now located at the Hôtel des sociétés savantes de Rouen.
Academy members
Current members
Former members
Bibliography
- Gosseaume, Pierre-Laurent-Guillaume (1814–1821). Précis analytique des travaux de l’Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen depuis sa fondation en 1744 jusqu’à l’époque de sa restauration, le 29 juin 1803, précédé de l’histoire de l’Académie ; Résumé analytique des travaux ; 1881-2. Rouen: Pierre Périaux.
- Gosseaume, Pierre-Laurent-Guillaume (1814–1821). Histoire de l'académie royale des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen. Rouen: Pierre Périaux.
- Héron, Alexandre (1903). Liste générale des membres de l'Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen de 1744-1745 à 1900-1901. Rouen: Gy. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
- Tradition et modernité. 250e anniversaire de l'Académie des Sciences. Rouen: Belles-Lettres et Arts de Rouen. 1994.
- Bergot, François (2009). Trésors de l'Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Rouen. Point de vues.
Notes and references
- ^ "Mairan, Jean-Jacques Dortous De | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
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