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an honorary group of French writers and thinkers supported by the French government
the French Academy sets standards for the use of the French language
How To Use French Academy In A Sentence
- M. Faye, of the French Academy, inclined to a lunar origin for them; [193] Feilitsch of Greifswald published in 1852 a treatise for the express purpose of proving all the luminous phenomena attendant on solar eclipses -- corona, prominences and "sierra" -- to be purely optical appearances. [ A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
- Other new venues for elite cultural exchange could be found in literary societies, and learned academies, modelled after the French Academy in Paris.
- They began calling the for-hire motorized passenger vehicles taxis once the national French Academy determined that taximètre would replace the German taxameter to become official French.xvi Rushed Parisians are, after all, fond of shortening multisyllabic words.xvii The English Is Coming!
- An English Version (the Original Crowned by the French Academy) of Frédéric Mistral's Mirèio from the Original Provencal/translated by C. H. Frédéric Mistral - Bibliography
- Members of the French Academy of Sciences led the world in measuring the Earth's shape, proudly determining it to be an oblate spheroid.
- the French Academy sets standards for the use of the French language
- The winner received a bursary to enable the study in Rome for three years of the best examples of Antique and Renaissance art while lodging at the French Academy there.
