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__NOTOC__ 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 scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and sciences. Membership may be open to al ...
founded in 1700. Its founders included: * Claude Brossette, lawyer, alderman of Lyons, and administrator of the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon; * , President of the Cour des monnaies; * , future consulting physician of King
Louis XIV LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...
and member of the ; * 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 {{France-org-stub