The Académie de Marseille, officially the Académie des sciences, lettres et arts de Marseille, is a French

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based in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

. It was founded in 1726 and includes those in the city involved in

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s, and

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History

The Académie de Marseille was created by

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Louis XV Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reache ...

in August 1726, which stated in particular that the number of members would be limited to twenty. The founding document furthermore stated that all twenty members must live in

. However, the actual number of founding members was twenty-one, due to the insistence of that Henri de Belsunce also be offered membership. This was rectified in 1730 when resigned from the Académie and was not replaced.

Founding Members

Bibliography

External links

Académie de Marseille - official site
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