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
- Mathieu-Antoine Bouchaud
- Arthur Dinaux
- Antoine-Adrien Lamourette
- Marcel Jérôme Rigollot
- Maximilien de Robespierre
- Jean-Baptiste Rondelet
swell
- 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).