Académie d'Arras

The Académie des sciences, lettres et arts d'Arras or simply Académie d'Arras is a French learned society based in Dainville . It regularly organizes public lectures and an art biennale . In addition, it regularly awards a history prize to students at Artois University .

history

The society was founded on May 22, 1737 as Société littéraire d'Arras (Literary Society of Arras) and in 1773 raised to the Académie royale . On February 4, 1786, the academy unanimously elected the young lawyer Maximilien de Robespierre as its chairman. In the course of the French Revolution , like other learned societies, it was dissolved by the National Convention in 1793 , but was re-established in 1817 as Société royale d'encouragement pour les sciences, les lettres et les arts .

Members

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Eugène Van Drival : Histoire de l'Académie d'Arras - depuis sa fondation, en 1737, jusqu'à nos jours. Courtin, Arras 1872. ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Académie d'Arras on the Arras Cultural Office website

Académie d'Arras on the website of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques

Literature by and about Académie d'Arras in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ Max Gallo : Robespierre . Ed .: Peter Schöttler (= biographies on the French Revolution ). Ernst Klett, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-608-94465-6 , pp. 39-41 .
^ Eugène Van Drival : Histoire de l'Académie d'Arras - depuis sa fondation, en 1737, jusqu'à nos jours . A. Courtin, Arras 1872, p. 74-98 (French).

[1] Max Gallo : Robespierre . Ed .: Peter Schöttler (= biographies on the French Revolution ). Ernst Klett, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-608-94465-6 , pp. 39-41 .

[2] Eugène Van Drival : Histoire de l'Académie d'Arras - depuis sa fondation, en 1737, jusqu'à nos jours . A. Courtin, Arras 1872, p. 74-98 (French).