Académie de Stanislas

The Académie de Stanislas is a learned society founded in Nancy, France on 28 December 1750 by the King of Poland, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, Stanisław Leszczyński, under the name Société Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Nancy.

Stanislas Leszczyński, founder of the Academy

It was established in the old Jesuit College, the building which founded the Nancy-Université until its temporary suppression by the Jacobin Convention in 1793, and which has now become the Municipal Library of Nancy.

Presidents

Past members

Charles Berlet, Jacqueline Brumaire, Henri Colin, Charles Coqueley de Chaussepierre,[1] Auguste Digot, Gilles Fabre, Nicolas-Louis François de Neufchâteau, Émile Gallé, André Grandpierre, Maurice Grandpierre, Prosper Guerrier de Dumast, Alain Larcan, Cardinal François-Désiré Mathieu, Montesquieu, René Nicklès, Charles Palissot de Montenoy, Maurice Perrin, Christian Pfister, Joseph de Pommery, Dr. André Remy (22 January 1949), Julien Thoulet (1894), Élise Voïart (first woman member).

Honorary member

André Rossinot, Mayor of Nancy

Associated corresponding members

Present corresponding members

Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, Jean Favier, Marc Fumaroli, Yves Guéna, Otto von Habsburg-Lorraine, Jean Tulard

Past corresponding members

Clovis Brunel, Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, Amiral Émile Guépratte, Charles Hermite, Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger, Joseph Liouville, Pierre Messmer, Dr. André Remy (5/5/1945), Roger Viry-Babel, Józef Andrzej Załuski

References
  1. Coqueley de Chaussepierre
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