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The Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts of Lyon (French: Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon) is a French
learned society
A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and science. Membership m ...
founded in 1700.
Its founders included:
*
Claude Brossette, lawyer, alderman of Lyons, and administrator of the
Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon
Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon was a hospital of historical significance situated on the west bank of the Rhone river, on the Presqu'île (the Peninsula between the Saône and Rhone rivers which run through the city center). It has been out of use since 201 ...
;
*
Laurent Dugas, President of the
Cour des monnaies;
* , future consulting physician of King
Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Ver ...
and member of the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigr ...
;
* Antoine de Serre, adviser to the Cour des monnaies;
* , naturalist;
* Father Jean de Saint-Bonnet, professor at the
Collège-lycée Ampère.
* Thomas Bernard Fellon.
Notable Members
*
Joseph D'Aquin
*
Jean Pouilloux
See also
*
French art salons and academies
Notes
References
National academies
Learned societies of France
1700 establishments in France
Organizations established in 1700
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