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Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosop ...
(French Academy) by seat number. The primary professions of the
academician An academician is a full member of an artistic, literary, engineering, or scientific academy. In many countries, it is an honorific title used to denote a full member of an academy that has a strong influence on national scientific life. In syst ...
s are noted. The dates shown indicate the terms of the members, who generally serve for life. Some, however, were "excluded" during the reorganisations of 1803 and 1816 and at other times.


Seat 1

# Pierre Séguier, 1635–1643, politician and magistrate #
Claude Bazin de Bezons Claude Bazin de Bezons (; 1617 – 20 March 1684) was a French lawyer, politician, and second holder of l'Académie française, seat 1. Biography Bazin de Bezons was born in Paris, France. His grandfather, Claude Bazin, married Marie Chanterel ...
, 1643–1684, lawyer #
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (; 1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), often known simply as Boileau (, ), was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the ...
, 1684–1711, poet # Jean d'Estrées, 1711–1718, ecclesiastic and politician # Marc-René d'Argenson, 1718–1721, politician #
Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy (; 25 August 1677 – 11 May 1753) was a French ecclesiastic and theologian. He was first bishop of Soissons, then a member of the ''Académie française'', and finally archbishop of Sens. Biography Son of the publi ...
, 1721–1753, ecclesiastic #
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste. His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including two prominent ...
, 1753–1788, essayist #
Félix Vicq-d'Azyr Félix Vicq d'Azyr (; 23 April 1748 – 20 June 1794) was a French physician and anatomist, the originator of comparative anatomy and discoverer of the theory of homology in biology. Biography Vicq d'Azyr was born in Valognes, Normandy, the son ...
, 1788–1794, medical doctor #
François-Urbain Domergue François-Urbain Domergue (; 24 March 1745 – 29 May 1810) was a French grammarian and journalist known for his Jacobin ideals. Biography Born in Aubagne to, the son of an apothecary, Domergue studied in his hometown of Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône ...
, 1803–1810, grammarian #
Ange-François Fariau Ange-François Fariau (; 13 October 1747 – 8 December 1810) was a French poet and translator. Fariau was born in Blois, the son of an advisor to the king. He studied in the Jesuit college of Blois, and later at the Sainte-Barbe college in P ...
, 1810, poet and translator #
François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison (; 7 May 1759, Paris – 7 December 1834) was a French poet. He initially intended to painting, he studied with the painter Jacques-Louis David. Ruined by the French Revolution, he managed to make a living a ...
, 1811–1834, poet #
Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy (; 11 June 1795 – 16 December 1856) was a French politician. He was born at Condom, Gers of a poor family of Irish extraction. He joined the army in 1813, and in the following year joined the household troops of L ...
, 1835–1856, politician and historian # Émile Augier, 1857–1889, poet and playwright #
Charles de Freycinet Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (; 14 November 1828 – 14 May 1923) was a French statesman and four times Prime Minister during the Third Republic. He also served an important term as Minister of War (1888–1893). He belonged to the Opp ...
, 1890–1923, politician and physicist #
Charles Émile Picard Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was ...
, 1924–1941, mathematician #
Louis de Broglie Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (, also , or ; 15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987) was a French physicist and aristocrat who made groundbreaking contributions to Old quantum theory, quantum theory. In his 1924 PhD thesis, he pos ...
, 1944–1987, physicist and mathematician #
Michel Debré Michel Jean-Pierre Debré (; 15 January 1912 – 2 August 1996) was the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France. He served under President Charles de Gaulle from 195 ...
, 1988–1996, politician #
François Furet François Furet (; 27 March 1927 – 12 July 1997) was a French historian and president of the Saint-Simon Foundation, best known for his books on the French Revolution. From 1985 to 1997, Furet was a professor of French history at the University ...
, 1997, historian #
René Rémond René Rémond (; 30 September 1918 – 14 April 2007) was a French historian, political scientist and political economist. Born in Lons-le-Saunier, Rémond was the Secretary General of Jeunesses étudiantes Catholiques (JEC France in 1943) and ...
, 1998–2007, historian #
Claude Dagens Claude Jean Pierre Dagens (; born 20 May 1940 in Bordeaux, Gironde) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church, serving as bishop of Angoulême. Previously the auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Poitiers from 1999 to 2005, he is a specialist t ...
, elected 2008, ecclesiastic


Seat 2

# Valentin Conrart, 1634–1675, poet and grammarian #
Toussaint Rose Toussaint Rose (; 3 September 1611 – 6 January 1701) was a French court secretary to Cardinal Mazarin and Louis XIV of France. Rose was born in Provins. He was elected the second member to occupy seat 2 of the Académie française in 1675. H ...
, 1675–1701, orator #
Louis de Sacy Louis de Sacy (; 1654, Paris – 26 October 1727, Paris) was a French author, and lawyer. He was the third member elected to occupy seat 2 of the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) ...
, 1701–1727, lawyer #
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (; ; 18 January 168910 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher. He is the principal ...
, 1728–1755, magistrate and philosopher #
Jean-Baptiste Vivien de Châteaubrun Jean-Baptiste Vivien de Châteaubrun (; 1686 – 16 February 1775) was a French dramatist and a member of the Académie française. He was born and died in Angoulême Angoulême (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Engoulaeme''; oc, Engoleime) is a ...
, 1755–1775, poet and playwright # François-Jean de Chastellux, 1775–1788, military officer #
Aimar-Charles-Marie de Nicolaï Aimar-Charles-Marie Nicolaï (; 14 August 1747, Paris – 7 July 1794, Paris) was a French magistrate in the Ancien Régime of France. He was the first president of the Chambre des Comptes, and the seventh member elected to occupy seat 2 of the ...
, 1788–1794, magistrate # François de Neufchâteau, 1803–1828, politician and philologist # Pierre-Antoine Lebrun, 1828–1873, politician and poet #
Alexandre Dumas, fils Alexandre Dumas (; 27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel ''La Dame aux Camélias'' (''The Lady of the Camellias''), published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's 1 ...
, 1874–1895, playwright and novelist # André Theuriet, 1896–1907, novelist and poet #
Jean Richepin Jean Richepin (; 4 February 1849 – 12 December 1926) was a French poet, novelist and dramatist. Biography Son of an army doctor, Jean Richepin was born 4 February 1849 at Médéa, French Algeria. At school and at the École Normale Supé ...
, 1908–1926, poet and novelist #
Émile Mâle Émile Mâle (; 2 June 1862 – 6 October 1954) was a French art historian, one of the first to study medieval, mostly sacred, sacral French art and the influence of Eastern European iconography thereon. He was a member of the Académie française ...
, 1927–1954, art historian #
François Albert-Buisson François Albert-Buisson (; 3 May 1881, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme – 21 May 1961, Aix-en-Provence) was a French entrepreneur, industrial, consular magistrate, economist, politician, historian. Background François Albert-Buisson was born in 1881 t ...
, 1955–1961, magistrate and politician #
Marc Boegner Marc Boegner, commonly known as ''pasteur'' Boegner (; 21 February 1881 – 18 December 1970), was a theologian, pastor, essayist, notable member of the French Resistance and a notable voice in the ecumenical movement. Biography Marc Boegner ...
, 1962–1970, ecclesiastic and theologian #
René de La Croix de Castries René de La Croix de Castries (; 1908 – 1986) was a French historian and a member of the House of Castries. He was the sixteenth member elected to occupy seat 2 of the Académie française in 1972. He wrote under the pen name ''Duc de Castries ...
, 1972–1986, historian #
André Frossard André Frossard (14 January 1915 – 2 February 1995) was a French journalist and essayist. Early life André Frossard was born on 14 January 1915 in Saint-Maurice-Colombier, Doubs, France. His father, Louis-Oscar Frossardan, was one of ...
, 1987–1995, essayist and journalist #
Hector Bianciotti Hector Bianciotti (; 18 March 1930 – 12 June 2012) was an Argentine-born French author and member of the Académie française. Biography Born Héctor Bianciotti (, ) in Calchín Oeste in Córdoba Province, Argentina, Bianciotti's parents were ...
, 1996–2012, novelist #
Dany Laferrière Dany Laferrière (born Windsor Kléber Laferrière, 13 April 1953) is a Haitian-Canadian novelist and journalist who writes in French. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française on 12 December 2013, and inducted in May 2015. Life Bo ...
, elected 2013, writer


Seat 3

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Jacques de Serisay Jacques de Serisay (1594 – November 1653) was a French poet, intendant of the duc de La Rochefoucauld, and the founding director of the Académie française. He was born in Paris, and was director of the Académie from 1634 to 11 January 16 ...
, 1634–1653, poet #
Paul-Philippe de Chaumont Paul-Philippe de Chaumont (1617 – 24 March 1697, Paris) was a French prelate. He was the second member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française in 1654. From an old family in Vexin where he was count of Chaumont, he was the son of a ...
, 1654–1697, ecclesiastic #
Louis Cousin Louis Cousin, le président Cousin (; 21 August 1627  – 26 February 1707) was a French translator, historian, lawyer, royal censor and president of the cour des monnaies. Cousin was born and died in Paris. He was the third member elected t ...
, 1697–1707, historian and journalist # Jacques-Louis de Valon, marquis de Mimeure, 1707–1719, poet and translator #
Nicolas Gédoyn Nicolas Gédoyn (15 June 1677 – 10 August 1744) was a French clergyman, translator, pioneer educationalist and literary critic. He was the fifth member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française in 1719, and the Académie des Inscripti ...
, 1719–1744, ecclesiastic #
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, comte de Lyonnais (22 May 1715 – 3 November 1794) was a French cardinal and diplomat. He was the sixth member elected to occupy Seat 3 of the Académie française in 1744. Bernis was one of the most promin ...
, 1744–1794, ecclesiastic # Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, 1803–1822, ecclesiastic and grammarian #
Denis-Luc Frayssinous Denis-Antoine-Luc, comte de Frayssinous (9 May 176512 December 1841) was a French prelate and statesman, orator and writer. He was the eighth member elected to occupy Seat 3 of the Académie Française in 1822. Biography De Frayssinous was born o ...
, 1822–1841, ecclesiastic #
Étienne-Denis Pasquier Étienne-Denis, duc de Pasquier (21 April 17675 July 1862), ''Chancelier de France'', (a title revived for him by Louis-Philippe in 1837), was a French statesman. In 1842, he was elected a member of the Académie française, and in the same year ...
, 1842–1862, politician #
Jules Armand Dufaure Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure (; 4 December 1798 – 28 June 1881) was a French statesman. Biography Dufaure was born at Saujon, Charente-Maritime, and began his career as an advocate at Bordeaux, where he won a great reputation by his oratoric ...
, 1863–1881, politician and lawyer #
Victor Cherbuliez Charles Victor Cherbuliez (; 19 July 1829 – 1 or 2 July 1899)Victor Cherbuliez
in the
Émile Faguet, 1900–1916, literary critic and historian #
Georges Clemenceau Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (, also , ; 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A key figure of the Independent Radicals, he was a ...
, 1918–1929, politician and doctor #
André Chaumeix André Chaumeix (6 June 1874, Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme – 23 February 1955) was a French academician, journalist, and literary critic. He was the fourteenth member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: ...
, 1930–1955, journalist and critic # Jérôme Carcopino, 1955–1970, historian and archaeologist #
Roger Caillois Roger Caillois (; 3 March 1913 – 21 December 1978) was a French intellectual whose idiosyncratic work brought together literary criticism, sociology, ludology and philosophy by focusing on diverse subjects such as games and play as well as th ...
, 1971–1978, essayist and sociologist #
Marguerite Yourcenar Marguerite Yourcenar (, , ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the ''Prix Fem ...
, 1980–1987, novelist and essayist #
Jean-Denis Bredin Jean-Denis Bredin (born Jean-Denis Hirsch: 17 May 1929 – 1 September 2021) was a French attorney and founding partner of the firm Bredin Prat. He was widely admired as an author-commentator, both for his novels and for his non-fiction work ...
, 1989–2021, magistrate and essayist


Seat 4

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Jean Desmarets Jean Desmarets, Sieur de Saint-Sorlin (1595 – 28 October 1676) was a French writer and dramatist. He was a founding member, and the first to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1634. Biography Born in Paris, Desmarets was introduced ...
, 1634–1676, poet and novelist #
Jean-Jacques de Mesmes Jean-Jacques de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux, vicomte de Neufchâtel (1630–1688) was a French magistrate, intendant of Soissons, and Président à mortier of the Parlement of Paris. He developed the town of Avaux-la-Ville, which is now called Asfel ...
, 1676–1688, magistrate #
Jean Testu de Mauroy Jean Testu de Mauroy (1626, Paris – April 1706, Paris) was a French clergyman and academic. He was the member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is ...
, 1688–1706, ecclesiastic # Camille le Tellier de Louvois, 1706–1718, ecclesiastic #
Jean Baptiste Massillon Jean-Baptiste Massillon, CO (24 June 1663, Hyères – 28 September 1742, Beauregard-l'Évêque), was a French Catholic prelate and famous preacher who served as Bishop of Clermont from 1717 until his death. Biography Early years Massillon w ...
, 1718–1742, ecclesiastic # Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, 1742–1798, politician and poet #
Gabriel-Marie Legouvé Gabriel Marie Jean Baptiste Legouvé (23 June 1764 – 30 August 1812) was an 18th–19th-century French poet and playwright. Legouvé was born and died in Paris, and was the seventh member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in ...
, 1803–1812, poet # Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval, 1812–1842, poet and playwright # Pierre-Simon Ballanche, 1842–1847, philosopher #
Jean Vatout Jean Vatout (; 26 May 1791 – 3 November 1848) was a French poet and historian. Vatout was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône. He was the tenth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμ ...
, 1848, poet #
Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (27 April 1805 in Saint Petersburg29 September 1851 in Moscow) was a French diplomat, historian, and Peer of France. He was the eleventh member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1849. ...
, 1849–1851, politician and historian # Antoine Pierre Berryer, 1852–1868, lawyer #
François-Joseph de Champagny François-Joseph de Champagny, 4th Duke of Cadore (8 September 1804, Vienna – 4 May 1882 Paris) was a French author and historian. He was the thirteenth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀ ...
, 1869–1882, historian # Charles de Mazade, 1882–1893, poet and critic #
José-Maria de Heredia José-Maria de Heredia (22 November 1842 – 3 October 1905) was a Cuban-born French Parnassian poet. He was the fifteenth member elected for seat 4 of the Académie française in 1894. Biography Early years Heredia was born at Fortuna ...
, 1894–1905, poet #
Maurice Barrès Auguste-Maurice Barrès (; 19 August 1862 – 4 December 1923) was a French novelist, journalist and politician. Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work '' The Cult of the Self'' in 188 ...
, 1906–1923, novelist and politician # Louis Bertrand, 1925–1941, novelist and historian #
Jean Tharaud Jean Tharaud (9 May 1877 – 8 April 1952) was a French writer. Tharaud was born in Saint-Junien, Haute-Vienne. As a young man, he had been secretary to Maurice Barrès. He wrote books with his brother, Jérôme Tharaud, for over 50 years. In 19 ...
, 1946–1952, novelist #
Alphonse Juin Alphonse Pierre Juin (16 December 1888 – 27 January 1967) was a senior French Army general who became Marshal of France. A graduate of the École Spéciale Militaire class of 1912, he served in Morocco in 1914 in command of native troops. Upon ...
, 1952–1967, soldier #
Pierre Emmanuel Noël Mathieu (3 May 1916, Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques – 22 September 1984, Paris) better known under his pseudonym Pierre Emmanuel, was a French poet of Christian inspiration. Biography He was the third member elected to occupy seat 4 of the ...
, 1968–1984, poet # Jean Hamburger, 1985–1992, doctor and essayist #
Albert Decourtray Albert Florent Augustin Decourtray S.T.D. (9 April 1923 – 16 September 1994) was a French Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon. Biography Early life He was born in the hamlet of L'Amiteuse near Lille, France. He entered the minor seminar ...
, 1993–1994, ecclesiastic # Jean-Marie Lustiger, 1995–2007, ecclesiastic #
Jean-Luc Marion Jean-Luc Marion (born 3 July 1946) is a French philosopher and Roman Catholic theologian. Marion is a former student of Jacques Derrida whose work is informed by patristic and mystical theology, phenomenology, and modern philosophy.Horner ...
, elected 2008, philosopher and academic


Seat 5

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Jean Ogier de Gombauld Jean Ogier de Gombauld (1576 – 1666) was a French playwright and poet. Gombauld was born in Saint-Just-Luzac, Charente-Maritime and was a Huguenot. He was one of the original members of the Académie française. He also wrote novels, but has ...
, 1634–1666, poet and playwright #
Paul Tallement le Jeune Paul Tallement (18 June 1642, in Paris – 30 July 1712, in Paris), known as Paul Tallemant le Jeune (''the Younger''), was a French churchman and scholar. Biography Inspired by the then-fashionable style of sentimental cartography (as exemplified ...
, 1666–1712, ecclesiastic #
Antoine Danchet Antoine Danchet (7 September 1671 – 21 February 1748) was a French playwright, librettist and dramatic poet. Biography Danchet was born in Riom, in the Auvergne, France. Having been a professor of rhetoric at Chartres and then a tutor at Paris, ...
, 1712–1748, playwright and poet #
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (August 29, 1709 – June 16, 1777) was a French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem ''Vert-Vert''. Life He was born at Amiens. During the last twenty-five years of his life, he regretted the frivolity of his ...
, 1748–1777, playwright #
Claude-François-Xavier Millot Claude-François-Xavier Millot (5 March 1726, Ornans, Doubs – 20 March 1785, Paris) was a French churchman and historian. Biography Whilst still young Millot entered the Jesuit order, teaching in many of their collèges, such as that at L ...
, 1777–1785, ecclesiastic #
André Morellet André Morellet (7 March 172712 January 1819) was a French economist, author of various writings, contributor to the and one of the last Enlightenment Age .'' Biography Born at Lyon, and educated by the Jesuits there, Morellet completed his t ...
, 1785–1819, ecclesiastic #
Pierre-Édouard Lémontey Pierre-Édouard Lémontey (14 January 1762, Lyon – 26 June 1826, Paris) was a French lawyer, politician, scholar and historian. Life On the convocation of the États généraux, he was noted for many political writings. Deputy for the Rhône ...
, 1819–1826, politician and lawyer #
Joseph Fourier Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (; ; 21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analysis and ha ...
, 1826–1830, mathematician and physicist #
Victor Cousin Victor Cousin (; 28 November 179214 January 1867) was a French philosopher. He was the founder of " eclecticism", a briefly influential school of French philosophy that combined elements of German idealism and Scottish Common Sense Realism. ...
, 1830–1867, politician and philosopher #
Jules Favre Jules Claude Gabriel Favre (21 March 1809 – 20 January 1880) was a French statesman and lawyer. After the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870, he became one of the leaders of the Opportunist Republicans in the National Assem ...
, 1867–1880, politician and lawyer #
Edmond Rousse Aimé Joseph Edmond Rousse (18 March 1817 – 1 August 1906) was a French lawyer, and member of the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary ...
, 1880–1906, lawyer #
Pierre de Ségur Pierre, marquis de Ségur (13 February 1853 in Paris – 13 August 1916 in Poissy) was a French writer and historian, elected a member of the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is ...
, 1907–1916, historian #
Robert de Flers Robert Pellevé de La Motte-Ango, marquis de Flers (25 November 1872, Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados – 30 July 1927, Vittel) was a French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist.Pierre Barillet, ''Les Seigneurs du rire: Flers – Caillavet ...
, 1920–1927, playwright and journalist #
Louis Madelin Louis Emile Marie Madelin (8 May 1871 – 18 August 1956) was a French historian (specialising in the French Revolution and First French Empire) and a Republican Federation deputy for Vosges from 1924 to 1928. He is buried at the Cimetière de G ...
, 1927–1956, historian # Robert Kemp, 1956–1959, literary and dramatic critic #
René Huyghe René Huyghe (3 May 1906 – 5 February 1997) was a French writer on the history, psychology and philosophy of art. He was also a curator at the Louvre's department of paintings (from 1930), a professor at the Collège de France and from 1960 a ...
, 1960–1997, art historian and essayist #
Georges Vedel Georges Vedel (5 July 1910 – 21 February 2002) was a French public law professor from Auch, France. Biography Vedel is credited as being "the reviser of public law n France" He was a faculty member of universities in Poitiers, Toulouse, and ...
, 1998–2002, magistrate #
Assia Djebar Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015), known by her pen name Assia Djebar ( ar, آسيا جبار), was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted fo ...
, 2005–2015, author # Andreï Makine, elected 2016, author


Seat 6

# François le Métel de Boisrobert, 1634–1662, ecclesiastic and poet #
Jean Regnault de Segrais Jean Regnault de Segrais (22 August 1624, Caen – 25 March 1701) was a French poet and novelist born in Caen. He was elected a member of the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημ ...
, 1662–1701, poet and novelist # Jean Galbert de Campistron, 1701–1723, playwright #
Philippe Néricault Destouches Philippe Néricault Destouches (9 April 1680 – 4 July 1754) was a French playwright who wrote 22 plays. Biography Destouches was born at Tours, in today's department of Indre-et-Loire. When he was nineteen years of age, he became secretary to ...
, 1723–1754, playwright and diplomat # Louis de Boissy, 1754–1758, poet #
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (June 1697 – 1 March 1781) was a French historian, classicist, philologist and lexicographer. Biography From an ancient family, his father Edme had been gentleman of the bedchamber to the Duke of O ...
, 1758–1781, archaeologist # Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas (Chamfort), 1781–1794, playwright and publisher #
Pierre Louis Roederer Comte Pierre Louis Roederer (15 February 1754 – 17 December 1835) was a French politician, economist, and historian, politically active in the era of the French Revolution and First French Republic. Roederer's son, Baron Antoine Marie Roede ...
, 1803–1815, politician and lawyer #
Pierre Marc Gaston de Lévis, Duke of Lévis Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis (7 March 1764, Paris – 15 February 1830), second duke of Lévis, peer of France, was a French politician, aphorist and député to the National Constituent Assembly. His father was the first duke of Lévis, mar ...
, 1816–1830, politician #
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, 1830–1873, diplomat and historian #
Charles de Viel-Castel Charles-Louis-Gaspard-Gabriel de Salviac, baron de Viel Castel (14 October 1800, in Paris – 6 October 1887, in Paris) was a French historian and diplomat. He was a great-nephew of Mirabeau via his mother, and the elder brother of Horace d ...
, 1873–1887, diplomat # Edmond Jurien de La Gravière, 1888–1892, admiral # Ernest Lavisse, 1892–1922, historian # Georges de Porto-Riche, 1923–1930, playwright and poet # Pierre Benoît, 1931–1962, novelist #
Jean Paulhan Jean Paulhan (2 December 1884 – 9 October 1968) was a French writer, literary critic and publisher, director of the literary magazine ''Nouvelle Revue Française'' (NRF) from 1925 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1968. He was a member (Seat 6, 1963–68 ...
, 1963–1968, literary and art critic #
Eugène Ionesco Eugène Ionesco (; born Eugen Ionescu, ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco inst ...
, 1970–1994, playwright #
Marc Fumaroli Marc Fumaroli (10 June 1932 – 24 June 2020) was a French historian and essayist who was widely respected as an advocate for French literature and culture. While born in Marseille, Fumaroli grew up in the Moroccan city of Fez, and served in th ...
, 1995–2020, historian and essayist


Seat 7

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Jean Chapelain Jean Chapelain (4 December 1595 – 22 February 1674) was a French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle, best known for his role as an organizer and founding member of the Académie française. Chapelain acquired considerable prestige as a ...
, 1634–1674, royal advisor #
Isaac de Benserade Isaac de Benserade (; baptized 5 November 161310 October 1691) was a French poet. Born in Lyons-la-Forêt, Normandy, his family appears to have been connected with Richelieu, who bestowed on him a pension of 600 ''livres''. He began his litera ...
, 1674–1691, poet and playwright #
Étienne Pavillon Étienne Pavillon (1632 – 10 January 1705) was a French lawyer and poet. Biography Grandson of a famous lawyer and nephew of bishop Nicolas Pavillon, Pavillon was born and died in Paris. He first studied theology before renouncing this ...
, 1691–1705, lawyer and poet #
Fabio Brulart de Sillery Fabio Brulart de Sillery (25 October 1655, château de Pressigny – 20 November 1714, Paris) was a French churchman, bishop of Avranches and bishop of Soissons.''Inventaire, lecture, invention: mélanges de critique et d'histoire''. Bernard Beu ...
, 1705–1714, ecclesiastic and poet #
Henri-Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force Henri-Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force (5 March 1675 – 20 July 1726) was a French nobleman and peer, the son of Jacques-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force and Suzanne de Beringhen. He was a member of the Académie française. Marr ...
, 1715–1726, economist #
Jean-Baptiste de Mirabaud Jean-Baptiste de Mirabaud (1675, Paris – 24 June 1760, Paris) was a French writer and translator. His life and work He studied with the Oratorians and fought at the battle of Steenkerque in 1692. A friend of Jean de La Fontaine, he wrote vari ...
, 1726–1760, translator # Claude-Henri Watelet, 1760–1786, painter #
Michel-Jean Sedaine Michel-Jean Sedaine (2 June 1719 – 17 May 1797) was a French dramatist and librettist, especially noted for his librettos for '' opéras comiques'', in which he took an important and influential role in the advancement of the genre from th ...
, 1786–1793, poet and playwright #
Jean-François Collin d'Harleville Jean-François Collin d'Harleville (30 May 1755 – 24 February 1806) was a French dramatist. He was born at Maintenon (Eure-et-Loir). His first dramatic success was ''L'Inconstant'', a comedy accepted by the Comédie Française in 1780, but n ...
, 1803–1806, playwright and poet #
Pierre Daru Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno, Comte de Daru (12 January 1767 – 5 September 1829) was a French soldier, statesman, historian, and poet. Early career Born in Montpellier, he was educated at the Oratorian-maintained military school of Tou ...
, 1806–1829, politician and historian #
Alphonse de Lamartine Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (; 21 October 179028 February 1869), was a French author, poet, and statesman who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the Tricolore as the flag of France. ...
, 1829–1869, politician and poet # Émile Ollivier, 1870–1913, politician and lawyer #
Henri Bergson Henri-Louis Bergson (; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopherHenri Bergson. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 13 August 2014, from https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/61856/Henri-Bergson Le Roy, ...
, 1914–1941, philosopher #
Édouard Le Roy Édouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy (; 18 June 1870 in Paris – 10 November 1954 in Paris) was a French philosopher and mathematician. Life Le Roy entered the ''École Normale Supérieure'' in 1892, and received the ''agrégation'' in mathema ...
, 1945–1954, philosopher and mathematician # Henri Petiot (Daniel-Rops), 1955–1965, poet and novelist #
Pierre-Henri Simon Pierre-Henri Simon (16 January 1903, Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde – 20 September 1972) was a French intellectual, literary historian, essayist, novelist, poet, and literary critic. He won the Prix Ève Delacroix in 1963 Works Essays * Destins de ...
, 1966–1972, literary historian and novelist #
André Roussin André Roussin, (22 January 1911 – 3 November 1987), was a French playwright. Born in Marseille, he was elected to the Académie française on 12 April 1973. Bibliography *1933 ''Patiences et impatiences'' *1944 ''Am Stram Gram'' *1945 ''U ...
, 1973–1987, playwright #
Jacqueline de Romilly Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (; née David, Greek: Ζακλίν ντε Ρομιγύ, 26 March 1913 – 18 December 2010) was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. She was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, an ...
, 1988–2010, philologist and essayist #
Jules Hoffmann Jules A. Hoffmann (; born 2 August 1941) is a Luxembourg-born French biologist. During his youth, growing up in Luxembourg, he developed a strong interest in insects under the influence of his father, Jos Hoffmann. This eventually resulted in the y ...
, elected 2012, biologist


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Claude de Malleville Claude Malleville, born in Paris probably between 1594 and 1596 and died in the same city in 1647, was a French poet. He became one of the first members of the Académie Française in 1634. His life Knowledge about Claude Malleville's life was ...
, 1634–1647, poet #
Jean Ballesdens Jean Ballesdens (1595 in Paris – 1675 in Paris) was a French lawyer, editor and bibliophile, though he has left practically no writings. He is the first known collector of books with historic bindings. Biography A lawyer to the parlement de Pari ...
, 1648–1675, lawyer #
Géraud de Cordemoy Géraud de Cordemoy (6 October 1626 in Paris – 15 October 1684 in Paris) was a French philosopher, historian and lawyer. He is mainly known for his works in metaphysics and for his theory of language. Biography Géraud de Cordemoy was born ...
, 1675–1684, philosopher and historian #
Jean-Louis Bergeret Jean-Louis Bergeret (11 December 1641, Paris – 9 October 1694) was an early holder of the 8th seat of the Académie française. Bergeret was Advocate General to the Metz Parliament in 1672, and became the first deputy of Charles Colbert, ma ...
, 1684–1694, lawyer #
Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre Charles-Irénée Castel, abbé de Saint-Pierre (18 February 1658 – 29 April 1743) was a French author whose ideas were novel for his times. His proposal of an international organisation to maintain peace was perhaps the first in history, wi ...
, 1694–1743, ecclesiastic #
Pierre Louis Maupertuis Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (; ; 1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the ...
, 1743–1759, astronomer #
Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan Jean-Jacques Lefranc (also Le Franc), Marquis de Pompignan (10 August 1709 – 1 November 1784) was a French man of letters and erudition, who published a considerable output of theatrical work, poems, literary criticism, and polemics; treatises o ...
, 1759–1784, magistrate and economist # Jean-Sifrein Maury, 1784–1793, ecclesiastic and politician #
Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély Michel Louis Etienne Regnaud, later 1st Count Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély (3 December 1761, Saint-Fargeau – 11 March 1819, Paris) was a French politician. Biography Early activities He was a lawyer in Paris and lieutenant of the maritime ...
, 1803–1814, politician and lawyer #
Pierre-Simon Laplace Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (; ; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. He summarize ...
, 1816–1827, politician and mathematician # Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, 1827–1845, politician #
Charles de Rémusat Charles François Marie, Comte de Rémusat (, 13 March 1797 – 6 June 1875), was a French politician and writer. Biography He was born in Paris. His father, Auguste Laurent, Comte de Rémusat, whose family came from Toulouse, was chamber ...
, 1846–1875, politician and philosopher #
Jules Simon Jules François Simon (; 31 December 1814 – 8 June 1896) was a French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leaders of the Moderate Republicans in the Third French Republic. Biography Simon was born at Lorient. His father was a linen-dra ...
, 1875–1896, politician and philosopher #
Adrien Albert Marie de Mun Adrien Albert Marie, Comte de Mun (, 28 February 18416 October 1914), was a French political figure and Social Reformer of the nineteenth century. Biography Early years Albert was born at Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux, Seine-et-Marne, son of the Marqu ...
, 1897–1914, politician and soldier #
Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart, Orat. (6 January 1859 – 19 May 1942) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church, who became a Cardinal in 1935. An historian and writer, he served as Rector of the Institut Catholique de Paris from 1907 until hi ...
, 1918–1942, ecclesiastic and historian # Octave Aubry, 1946–1946, historian and bureaucrat #
Édouard Herriot Édouard Marie Herriot (; 5 July 1872 – 26 March 1957) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister (1924–1925; 1926; 1932) and twice as President of the Chamber of Deputies. He led the f ...
, 1946–1957, politician and literary historian # Jean Rostand, 1959–1977, biologist and philosopher #
Michel Déon Michel Déon (; 4 August 1919 – 28 December 2016) was a French novelist and literary columnist. He published over 50 works and was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Interallié for his 1970 novel, '' Les Poneys sauvages'' (Th ...
, 1978–2016, novelist #
Daniel Rondeau Daniel Rondeau (born 7 May 1948) is a French writer, editor, and diplomat. Born in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, he studied law at Panthéon-Assas where the spirit of May 68 saw him embrace Maoism and join the proletariat by working from 1970 to 1974 i ...
, elected 2019, writer and diplomat


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Nicolas Faret Nicolas Faret (Bourg-en-Bresse, c.1596 – 8 September 1646) was a French statesman, writer, scholar and translator. He translated Eutropius's ''Roman History'' (Paris, 1621, in-18). References * Gustave Vapereau Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 Apr ...
, 1634–1646, poet #
Pierre du Ryer Pierre du Ryer (c.1606 – 6 November 1658) was a French dramatist. Life and works Du Ryer was born in Paris in about 1606. His early comedies are loosely modelled on those of Alexandre Hardy, but after the production of the ''Cid'' (1636) he ...
, 1646–1658, playwright #
César d'Estrées César d'Estrées (5 February 1628 – 18 December 1714) was a French diplomat and cardinal. Biography Estrées was born and died in Paris. He was the son of Marshal François Annibal d'Estrées and nephew of Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistre ...
, 1658–1714, ecclesiastic and politician #
Victor-Marie d'Estrées Victor-Marie d'Estrées, Duke of Estrées count then duke (1723) of Estrées (30 November 1660, Paris – 27 December 1737, Paris) was a Marshal of France and subsequently known as the ''"Maréchal d'Estrées''". Biography Son of Marshal Jea ...
, 1715–1737, politician and soldier #
Charles Armand René de La Trémoille Charles Armand René de La Trémoille (14 January 1708, in Paris – 23 May 1741), 6th duc de Thouars, was the son of Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille and his wife, Marie Madeleine Motier de la Fayette. La Trémoille was a French soldie ...
, 1738–1741, aristocrat #
Armand de Rohan-Soubise François-Armand-Auguste de Rohan-Soubise, Prince of Tournon, Prince of Rohan (1 December 1717, Paris – 28 June 1756, Saverne) was a French prelate, Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg. His parents, Anne Julie de Melun and Jules, Prince de Soubis ...
, 1741–1756, ecclesiastic # Antoine de Montazet, 1756–1788, ecclesiastic # Stanislas de Boufflers, 1788–1815, poet #
Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian Louis-Pierre Baour (24 March 1770 – 18 December 1854) was a French poet and writer. He wrote under the names Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian, Louis-Pierre-Marie-François, Pierre-Marie-François-Louis or Pierre-Marie-Louis Baour-Lormian. ...
, 1815–1854, poet and playwright #
François Ponsard François Ponsard (1 June 1814 – 7 July 1867) was a French dramatist, poet and author and was a member of the Académie française. Biography Ponsard was born at Vienne, Isère in 1814 and trained as a lawyer. His first literary work w ...
, 1855–1867, playwright # Joseph Autran, 1868–1877, poet #
Victorien Sardou Victorien Sardou ( , ; 5 September 18318 November 1908) was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play. He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-centur ...
, 1877–1908, playwright #
Marcel Prévost Eugène Marcel Prévost (1 May 18628 April 1941) was a French author and dramatist. Biography Prévost was born in Paris on 1 May 1862, and educated at Jesuit schools in Bordeaux and Paris, entering the École polytechnique in 1882. He publish ...
, 1909–1941, novelist # Émile Henriot, 1945–1961, novelist and literary critic #
Jean Guéhenno Jean Guéhenno born Marcel-Jules-Marie Guéhenno (25 March 1890 – 22 September 1978) was a French essayist, writer and literary critic. Life and career Jean Guéhenno, writer and educator, was a prominent contributor to the NRF. He was edito ...
, 1962–1978, essayist #
Alain Decaux Alain Decaux (23 July 1925 − 27 March 2016) was a French historian. He was elected to the Académie française on 15 February 1979. In 2005, he was, with others authors as Frédéric Beigbeder, Mohamed Kacimi, Richard Millet and Jean-Pierre T ...
, 1979–2016, historian #
Patrick Grainville Patrick Grainville (born 1 June 1947 Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados) is a French novelist. He spent his childhood in Villerville, a small town east of Deauville. An Associate Professor of Letters, he received the Prix Goncourt in 1976, 29 years o ...
, elected 2018, novelist


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Antoine Godeau Antoine Godeau (24 September 1605, in Dreux – 21 April 1672, in Vence) was a French bishop, poet and exegete. He is now known for his work of criticism ''Discours de la poésie chrétienne'' from 1633. Biography His verse-writing early won the ...
, 1634–1672, ecclesiastic and poet #
Esprit Fléchier Esprit Fléchier (10 June 163216 February 1710) was a French preacher and author, Bishop of Nîmes from 1687 to 1710. Biography Fléchier was born at Pernes-les-Fontaines, in today's ''département'' of Vaucluse, in the then Comtat Venaissin, ...
, 1672–1710, ecclesiastic #
Henri de Nesmond Henri de Nesmond (27 January 1655, Bordeaux – 27 May 1727, Toulouse) was a French churchman, bishop of Montauban, archbishop of Albi and archbishop of Toulouse. Biography Nesmond was a son of Henri de Nesmond (1600–1651). André, marquis ...
, 1710–1727, ecclesiastic # Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou, 1727–1749, politician #
Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (22 September 168426 January 1761) was a French general and statesman. Life and career Born in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Belle-Isle was the grandson of Nicolas Fouquet, who served as Superintenden ...
, 1749–1761, politician and soldier #
Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet Nicolas Charles Joseph Trublet (; 4 December 1697, Saint-Malo – 14 March 1770, Saint-Malo) was a French churchman (canon of Saint-Malo) and moralist, best known for his clash with Voltaire, whose ''La Henriade'' he critiqued. A "chiffonnier de ...
, 1761–1770, ecclesiastic # Jean François de Saint-Lambert, 1770–1793, poet and philosopher #
Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano Hugues-Bernard Maret (, 1 May 1763 – 13 May 1839), 1st Duke of Bassano (''Duc de Bassano''), was a French statesman, diplomat and journalist. Biography Early career Maret was born in Dijon, in the province of Burgundy, as the second son of ...
, 1803–1815, politician and diplomat #
Joseph Lainé Joseph Henri Joachim, vicomte Lainé (11 November 1768 – 17 December 1835), was a French lawyer and politician. Born in Bordeaux, he became a successful lawyer in Paris. In 1793 he was named administrator of the district of La Réole, returning ...
, 1816–1835, politician and magistrate # Emmanuel Dupaty, 1836–1851, poet and playwright #
Alfred de Musset Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.His names are often reversed "Louis Charles Alfred de Musset": see "(Louis Charles) Alfred de Musset" (bio), Biography.com, 2007 ...
, 1852–1857, playwright and poet #
Victor de Laprade Pierre Martin Victor Richard de Laprade (13 January 181213 December 1883), known as Victor de Laprade, was a French poet and critic. Biography He was born at Montbrison, Loire, of a modest provincial family. After completing his studies at Lyon, ...
, 1858–1883, poet # François Coppée, 1884–1908, poet and novelist # Jean Aicard, 1909–1921, poet and novelist #
Camille Jullian Camille Jullian (15 March 1859 – 12 December 1933) was a French historian, philologist, archaeologist and historian of literature. A Professor of ancient history and classics at the University of Bordeaux from 1891, Jullian was awarded a chai ...
, 1924–1933, historian and philologist # Léon Bérard, 1934–1960, politician and lawyer # Jean Guitton, 1961–1999, theologian and philosopher #
Florence Delay Florence Delay (born 19 March 1941 in Paris) is a French academician and actress. Biography The daughter of Marie-Madeleine Carrez and Jean Delay, Delay studied at the Lycée Jean de La Fontaine and then the Sorbonne. In 1962, she played the tit ...
, elected 2000, novelist and playwright


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Philippe Habert Philippe Habert (1604 – 26 July 1637) was a French poet. Habert was born in Paris and was the brother to Germain Habert and cousin of Henri Louis Habert de Montmor, as well as a friend of Valentin Conrart. Philippe was also one of the first mem ...
, 1634–1638, poet #
Jacques Esprit Jacques Esprit (22 October 1611, in Béziers – 11 June 1677), sometimes called abbé Esprit despite never having been ordained a priest, was a French moralist and writer. Biography Born at Béziers, the son of a doctor from Toulouse, he joined ...
, 1639–1678, politician #
Jacques-Nicolas Colbert Jacques-Nicolas Colbert (14 February 1655, in Paris – 10 December 1707, in Paris) was a French churchman. Youngest son of Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, he was educated for a career in the church, tutored by Noël Alexandre, a Dominican theol ...
, 1678–1707, ecclesiastic #
Claude-François Fraguier Claude François Fraguier (27 August 1660, Paris – 3 May 1728, Paris) was a French churchman and writer. Fraguier became a Jesuit at a young age, but he left the order in 1694 to devote himself to literature. A classicist and author of disserta ...
, 1707–1728, ecclesiastic #
Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin (5 August 1691, in Paris – 17 July 1744) was a French churchman, writer, scholar, numismatist and theologian. A descendant of Dunois, he was held to be one of the wisest bibliophiles of his time and owned an i ...
, 1728–1744, ecclesiastic # Gabriel Girard, 1744–1748, ecclesiastic # Marc-Antoine-René de Voyer d'Argenson de Paulmy, 1748–1787, politician #
Henri-Cardin-Jean-Baptiste d'Aguesseau Henri-Cardin-Jean-Baptiste d'Aguesseau, Marquis d'Aguesseau (23 August 1752, in Paris22 January 1826), grandson of the French chancellor Henri François d'Aguesseau, was ''advocate-general'' in the ''parlement'' of Paris and deputy in the Estat ...
, 1787–1826, politician #
Charles Brifaut Charles Brifaut (15 February 1781, Dijon – 5 June 1857, Paris) was a French poet, journalist, publicist and playwright. Biography A liberal royalist, Brifaut edited the ''Gazette de France'' and attended the salon of Madame Vigée-Lebrun. He als ...
, 1826–1857, poet and playwright # Jules Sandeau, 1858–1883, novelist and playwright #
Edmond François Valentin About Edmond François Valentin About (14 February 182816 January 1885) was a French novelist, publicist and journalist. Biography About was born at Dieuze, in the Moselle ''département'' in the Lorraine region of France. In 1848 he entered the Éc ...
, 1884–1885, novelist and playwright #
Léon Say Jean-Baptiste-Léon Say (6 June 1826, Paris – 21 April 1896, Paris) was a French statesman and diplomat. One of the 19th-century's noted economists, he served as French Finance Minister from 1872 until 1883. Biography The Say family is a mos ...
, 1886–1896, politician and economist #
Albert Vandal Albert Count Vandal (7 July 1853, Paris – 30 August 1910, Paris) was a French historian, born in Paris. He wrote: * En karriole à travers la Suède et la Norvège'' (1876) * ''Louis XV et Elizabeth de Russie'' (1882) * ''Ambassade f ...
, 1896–1910, historian # Denys Cochin, 1911–1922, politician #
Georges Goyau Georges Goyau (31 May 1869 – 25 October 1939) was a French historian and essayist specializing in religious history. Biography Pierre-Louis-Théophile-Georges Goyau was born in Orléans 31 May 1869, and attended the Lycée d'Orléans before mov ...
, 1922–1939, historian # Paul Hazard, 1940–1944, historian and philosopher #
Maurice Garçon Maurice Garçon (25 November 1889 in Lille – 29 December 1967 in Paris) was a French novelist, historian, essayist and lawyer. A major figure at the bar association, bar, he gained a certain notoriety and was even mentioned with René Floriot i ...
, 1946–1967, lawyer, novelist and historian #
Paul Morand Paul Morand (13 March 1888 – 24 July 1976) was a French author whose short stories and novellas were lauded for their style, wit and descriptive power. His most productive literary period was the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s. He was mu ...
, 1968–1976, diplomat, novelist, playwright and poet #
Alain Peyrefitte Alain Peyrefitte (; 26 August 1925 – 27 November 1999) was a French scholar and politician. He was a confidant of Charles de Gaulle and had a long career in public service, serving as a diplomat in Germany and Poland. Peyrefitte is remembered ...
, 1977–1999, scholar and politician # Gabriel de Broglie, elected 2001, historian


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# Germain Habert, 1634–1654, ecclesiastic #
Charles Cotin Charles Cotin or Abbé Cotin (1604 – December 1681) was a French abbé, philosopher and poet. He was made a member of the Académie française on 7 January 1655. Cotin was born and died in Paris. He was a scholar of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, an ...
, 1655–1681, ecclesiastic #
Louis de Courcillon Louis de Courcillon, known as the abbé de Dangeau (January 1643, in Paris – 1 January 1723, in Paris) was a French churchman and grammarian, best known for being the first to describe the nasal vowels in the French language. Originally a Protest ...
, 1682–1723, ecclesiastic and politician #
Charles Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau Charles Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau, comte de Morville (30 October 1686, in Paris – 2 February 1732) was a French statesman. Son of Joseph Fleuriau d'Armenonville, he was ambassador to Holland, then Secretary of State for the Navy from 28 February ...
, 1723–1732, politician #
Jean Terrasson Jean Terrasson (31 January 1670 – 15 September 1750), often referred to as the Abbé Terrasson, was a French priest, author and member of the Académie française. The erudite Antoine Terrasson was his nephew. Life Jean Terrasson, born in Lyon ...
, 1732–1750, ecclesiastic and philosopher #
Claude de Thiard de Bissy Claude de Thiard de Bissy (13 October 1721, Paris – 26 September 1810, Pierre-de-Bresse)Full name – Claude VIII, Count of Bissy was a French soldier. He served his military career, rising to lieutenant-général des armées du roi in 1762 (the ...
, 1750–1810, soldier #
Joseph-Alphonse Esménard Joseph-Alphonse Esménard (1770, in Pélissanne – 25 June 1811, in Fondi) was a French poet and the brother of the journalist Jean-Baptiste Esménard and father of the artists Inès Esménard and Nathalie Elma d'Esménard. Biography In 179 ...
, 1810–1811, politician #
Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle, (3 September 1766 – 26 March 1855), was a French historian and journalist. Called Lacretelle le jeune to distinguish him from his elder brother, Pierre Louis de Lacretelle. He was born at Metz. He was ...
, 1811–1855, historian #
Jean-Baptiste Biot Jean-Baptiste Biot (; ; 21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who co-discovered the Biot–Savart law of magnetostatics with Félix Savart, established the reality of meteorites, made an early ba ...
, 1856–1862, scientist and mathematician #
Louis de Carné Louis-Marie de Carné (17 February 1804, Quimper, Finistère – 11 February 1876, Plomelin), comte de Carné was a French politician, journalist and historian. Biography Founder of the newspaper '' le Correspondant'' in 1829, conseiller généra ...
, 1863–1876, historian and politician #
Charles Blanc Charles Blanc (17 November 1813, Castres (Tarn) – 17 January 1882, Paris) was a French art critic. Life and career He was the younger brother of the French socialist politician and historian Louis Blanc. After the February Revolution of 1848 ...
, 1876–1882, art critic #
Édouard Pailleron Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron (7 September 183419 April 1899) was a French poet and dramatist best known for his play . Early life Édouard was born in Paris on 7 September 1834. From a Parisian cultured "bourgeoise" family (upper-middle class ...
, 1882–1899, poet and playwright #
Paul Hervieu Paul Hervieu (2 September 185725 October 1915) was a French novelist and playwright. Early years He was born Paul-Ernest Hervieu in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Hervieu was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family. He studied law, but sou ...
, 1900–1915, novelist and playwright #
François, Vicomte de Curel François, Vicomte de Curel (10 June 1854 – 26 April 1928), French dramatist, was born at Metz, Moselle. Biography He was educated at the École centrale Paris as a civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineeri ...
, 1918–1928, playwright # Charles Le Goffic, 1930–1932, novelist and historian #
Abel Bonnard Abel Bonnard (19 December 1883 31 May 1968) was a French poet, novelist and politician. Biography Born in Poitiers, Vienne, his early education was in Marseilles with secondary studies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. A student of literatu ...
, 1932–1945, poet, novelist and politician; expelled for his collaboration with
Vichy regime Vichy France (french: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was the fascist French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its ter ...
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Jules Romains Jules Romains (born Louis Henri Jean Farigoule; 26 August 1885 – 14 August 1972) was a French poet and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement. His works include the play '' Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine'', and a cycle ...
, 1946–1972, novelist, playwright and poet #
Jean d'Ormesson Count Jean Bruno Wladimir François de Paule Le Fèvre d'Ormesson (16 June 1925 – 5 December 2017) was a French novelist. He was the author of forty books, the director of '' Le Figaro'' from 1974 to 1979, and the Dean of the Académie français ...
, 1973–2017, novelist #
Chantal Thomas Chantal Thomas (born 18 October 1945, in Lyon) is a French writer and historian. Her 2002 book, ''Farewell, My Queen'', won the Prix Femina and was adapted into a 2012 film starring Diane Kruger and Léa Seydoux. Career Thomas was born in Lyon ...
, elected 2021, writer and historian


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Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac Claude may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher ...
, 1634–1638, grammarian and mathematician #
François de La Mothe Le Vayer François de La Mothe Le Vayer (, August 15889 May 1672), was a French writer who was known to use the pseudonym Orosius Tubero. He was admitted to the Académie française in 1639, and was the tutor of Louis XIV. Early years Le Vayer was born a ...
, 1639–1672, critic, grammarian and philosopher #
Jean Racine Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ) (; 22 December 163921 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western traditi ...
, 1672–1699, playwright, mathematician, physicist and doctor #
Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour Jean-Baptiste Henri de Trousset, lord of Valincour or Valincourt (1 March 1653, Paris – 4 January 1730) was a French admiral and man of letters. He was a friend of chancellor d'Aguesseau, Racine (who he replaced at Académie française and as of ...
, 1699–1730, historiographer and admiral #
Jean-François Leriget de La Faye Jean-François Leriget de La Faye (1674, Vienne, Isère – 11 July 1731, Paris) was a French diplomat, wealthy landowner and art collector, poet,Moore, Susan (April 2017). Preview. '' Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors'' 185 (652): ...
, 1730–1731, politician #
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (13 January 1674 – 17 June 1762) was a French poet and tragedian. Biography Crébillon was born in Dijon, where his father, Melchior Jolyot, was notary-royal. Having been educated at the Jesuit school in the town, ...
, 1731–1762, playwright #
Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon Claude-Henri de Fusée, abbé de Voisenon (8 July 1708 – 22 November 1775) was a French playwright and writer. Life Born at the château de Voisenon near Melun, he was only ten when he addressed an epistle in verse to Voltaire, who asked the ...
, 1762–1775, ecclesiastic, playwright and poet # Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin, 1776–1804, ecclesiastic #
Jean-Baptiste Dureau de la Malle Jean-Baptiste Dureau de la Malle (27 November 1742, Ouanaminthe, Saint-Domingue – 19 September 1807) was a Saint Dominican writer of French literature and translator. He was made a member of the " Corps législatif" in 1802 and was admitted in ...
, 1804–1807, translator #
Louis-Benoît Picard Louis-Benoît Picard (29 July 1769 in Paris – 31 December 1828 in Paris) was a French playwright, actor, novelist, poet and music director.Jean Gourret, '' Ces hommes qui ont fait l'Opéra'', 1984, p. 106-107. Biography Son of a lawyer, ...
, 1807–1828, comedian, poet, novelist and playwright #
Antoine-Vincent Arnault Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1 January 176616 September 1834) was a French playwright. Life Arnault was born in Paris. His first play, ''Marius à Minturne'' (1791), immediately established his reputation. A year later he followed with a second ...
, 1829–1834, poet, fabulist and playwright #
Eugène Scribe Augustin Eugène Scribe (; 24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of ma ...
, 1834–1861, playwright #
Octave Feuillet Octave Feuillet (11 July 1821 – 29 December 1890) was a French novelist and dramatist. His work stands midway between the romanticists and the realists. He is renowned for his "distinguished and lucid portraiture of life", depictions of fem ...
, 1862–1890, novelist and playwright # Pierre Loti, 1891–1923, novelist and soldier # Paul-Albert Besnard, 1924–1934, painter and engraver #
Louis Gillet Louis-Marie-Pierre-Dominique Gillet (11 December 1876 – 1 July 1943) was a French art historian and literary historian. Life Louis Gillet was born in Paris on 11 December 1876. He studied at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and the École norma ...
, 1935–1943, historian of art and literature #
Paul Claudel Paul Claudel (; 6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism. Early lif ...
, 1946–1955, poet, playwright, novelist and diplomat #
Wladimir d'Ormesson Wladimir d'Ormesson (2 August 1888, Saint Petersburg – 15 September 1973) was a French essayist, novelist, journalist and diplomat. He was successively ambassador in Vatican City, Buenos Aires and Santiago, and wrote many essays (''Dans la n ...
, 1956–1973, politician, chronicler and novelist # Maurice Schumann, 1974–1998, politician, essayist, journalist, novelist and historian #
Pierre Messmer Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer (; 20 March 191629 August 2007) was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 – the longest serving since Étienne François, duc de Choiseul under L ...
, 1999–2007, soldier and politician #
Simone Veil Simone Veil (; ; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate and politician who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. ...
, 2008–2017, lawyer and politician #
Maurizio Serra Maurizio Serra (born 3 June 1955 in London) is a contemporary Italian writer and diplomat. Maurizio Serra was Italian Ambassador to the Unesco. He writes in Italian and French. He was elected to the Académie Française on 9 January 2020. His ...
, elected 2020, writer and diplomat


Seat 14

# François Maynard, 1634–1646, magistrate and poet #
Pierre Corneille Pierre Corneille (; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patron ...
, 1647–1684, playwright and lawyer #
Thomas Corneille Thomas Corneille (20 August 1625 – 8 December 1709) was a French lexicographer and dramatist. Biography Born in Rouen some nineteen years after his brother Pierre, the "great Corneille", Thomas's skill as a poet seems to have shown itself e ...
, 1684–1709, playwright # Antoine Houdar de la Motte, 1710–1731, playwright #
Michel-Celse-Roger de Bussy-Rabutin Michel-Celse-Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (1669 – 3 November 1736) was a French churchman and diplomat. Biography The second son of Count Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, he served as Bishop of Luçon from 1723 until his death. He attended the salon of M ...
, 1732–1736, ecclesiastic #
Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne (8 May 1694, Orléans – 26 September 1779, Paris) was a French churchman and scholar. Biography An Oratorian and professor, he was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1722 and to the ...
, 1736–1779, ecclesiastic #
Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon Michel-Paul Guy de Chabanon (1730, Saint-Domingue – 10 June 1792, Paris) was a violinist, composer, music theorist, and connoisseur of French literature. He was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (1760) and the Académ ...
, 1779–1792, playwright # Jacques-André Naigeon, 1803–1810, encyclopaedist #
Népomucène Lemercier Louis Jean Népomucène Lemercier (20 April 1771 – 7 June 1840) was a French poet and playwright. Life Lemarcier was born in Paris. His father had been intendant successively to the Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre, duc de Penth ...
, 1810–1840, poet and playwright #
Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...
, 1841–1885, poet, playwright and novelist #
Leconte de Lisle Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (; 22 October 1818 – 17 July 1894) was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle''. Biography Leconte de Lisle was born on the French overseas ...
, 1886–1894, poet and playwright # Henry Houssaye, 1894–1911, historian and novelist #
Hubert Lyautey Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (17 November 1854 – 27 July 1934) was a French Army general and colonial administrator. After serving in Indochina and Madagascar, he became the first French Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925. Early in ...
, 1912–1934, soldier #
Louis Franchet d'Espèrey Louis Félix Marie François Franchet d'Espèrey (25 May 1856 – 8 July 1942) was a French general during World War I. As commander of the large Allied army based at Salonika, he conducted the successful Macedonian campaign, which caused t ...
, 1934–1942, politician and soldier #
Robert d'Harcourt Robert d'Harcourt (23 November 1881 – 18 June 1965) was a French Catholic intellectual, scholar of German culture and anti-Nazi polemicist. Early years A member of the aristocratic Norman House of Harcourt, d'Harcourt was born at Lumigny-N ...
, 1946–1965, literary historian and essayist #
Jean Mistler Jean Mistler (1 September 1897 – 11 November 1988) was a French writer, diplomat and politician born in Sorèze, Tarn. In 1966 he was elected to the Académie française. Mistler, whose father's family had left Alsace in 1871, did his schoolin ...
, 1966–1988, novelist, essayist, literary historian, music critic and politician #
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (; born Hélène Zourabichvili; 6 July 1929) is a French political historian of Georgian origin, specializing in Russian history. Since 1999, she has served as the Perpetual Secretary of the Académie française, to ...
, elected 1990, historian


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Guillaume Bautru Guillaume Bautru, comte de Serrant (1588, Angers – 7 March 1665, Paris) was a French satirical poet, court favourite and a protégé and diplomatic agent of cardinal Richelieu. Biography He was lord of Louvaines, conseiller d'État under ...
, 1634–1665, politician #
Jacques Testu de Belval Abbé Jacques Testu de Belval (c. 1626, Paris – June 1706) was a French ecclesiastic and poet. Best known for his light poetry, he was also a preacher, translator and king's almoner. He was linked with Madame de Sévigné, Madame de Coulanges, M ...
, 1665–1706, ecclesiastic and poet #
François-Joseph de Beaupoil de Sainte-Aulaire François-Joseph de Beaupoil, marquis de Sainte-Aulaire (6 September 1643, château de Bary, Limousin – 17 December 1742, Paris) was a French poet and army officer. Biography External links Académie française {{DEFAULTSORT:Sainte-Au ...
, 1706–1742, soldier and poet #
Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (26 November 1678 – 20 February 1771) was a French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist, was born in the town of Béziers on 26 November 1678. De Mairan lost his father, François d'Ortou ...
, 1743–1771, physicist and mathematician # François Arnaud, 1771–1784, ecclesiastic # Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target, 1785–1806, magistrate # Jean-Sifrein Maury, 1806-excluded by ordinance 1816, ecclesiastic and politician #
François-Xavier-Marc-Antoine de Montesquiou-Fézensac Abbé François-Xavier-Marc-Antoine de Montesquiou-Fézensac (château de Marsan, Gers, 3 August 1757 – Chateau de Cirey, Haute-Marne, 4 February 1832) was a French clergyman and politician. Biography He was a member of a very old French nobi ...
, 1816–1832, ecclesiastic and politician # Antoine Jay, 1832–1854, politician #
Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy (17 October 1801 – 14 February 1879) was a French journalist. He was born in Paris, the son of the linguist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838), who in 1813, was created a baron by Napoleon. From 1828 to 1877 ...
, 1854–1879, literary critic #
Eugène Marin Labiche Eugène Marin Labiche (6 May 181522 January 1888) was a French dramatist. He remains famous for his contribution to the vaudeville genre and his passionate and domestic pochads. In the 1860s, he reached his peak with a series of successes i ...
, 1880–1888, playwright and novelist # Henri Meilhac, 1888–1897, playwright #
Henri Lavedan Henri Léon Emile Lavedan (9 April 1859 – 4 September 1940), French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Orléans, the son of , a well-known Catholic and liberal journalist. Lavedan contributed to various Parisian papers a series of witty ...
, 1898–1940, playwright and novelist #
Ernest Seillière The Baron Ernest-Antoine Seillière (1 January 1866 – 15 March 1955) was a French writer, journalist and critic. Biography Seillière was born in Paris, the son of Aimé Seillière and Marie de Laborde. He studied at the École polytec ...
, 1946–1955, historian of literature and of philosophy, and essayist #
André Chamson André Chamson (6 June 1900 – 9 November 1983) was a French archivist, novelist and essayist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the father of the novelist . Biography Chamson was born at Nîmes, Gard. Having studi ...
, 1956–1983, novelist, essayist and historian #
Fernand Braudel Fernand Braudel (; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian and leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects: ''The Mediterranean'' (1923–49, then 1949–66), ''Civilization and Capitalism'' ...
, 1984–1985, historian of civilisations #
Jacques Laurent Jacques Laurent or Jacques Laurent-Cély (6 January 1919 – 28 December 2000) was a French writer and journalist. He was born in Paris, the son of a barrister. During World War II, he fought with the Algerian Tirailleurs. Laurent was elect ...
, 1986–2000, novelist, essayist and journalist # Frédéric Vitoux, elected 2001, writer and journalist


Seat 16

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Jean Sirmond Jean Sirmond (1589, Riom, France - 1649, Riom, France) was a neo-Latin poet and French man of letters, historiographer of Louis XIII. Biography Sirmond is known especially for his lifelong feud with Mathieu de Morgues, known as the lord of Sain ...
, 1634–1649, historiographer #
Jean de Montereul Jean de Montreuil nown as Montereul(c. 1614, Paris – 27 April 1651, Paris) was a French ecclesiastic and diplomat. Biography The son of an advocate to the parlement de Paris, Montereul was originally intended for a legal career himself, but in ...
, 1649–1651, ecclesiastic # François Tallemant l'Aîné, 1651–1693, ecclesiastic #
Simon de la Loubère Simon de la Loubère (; 21 April 1642 – 26 March 1729) was a French diplomat to Siam (Thailand), writer, mathematician and poet. He is credited with bringing back a document which introduced Europe to Indian astronomy, the "Siamese method" ...
, 1693–1729, diplomat and poet #
Claude Sallier Claude Sallier (4 April 1685, in Saulieu – 6 September 1761, in Paris) was a French ecclesiastic and philologist, as well as professor of Hebrew at the Collège royal and garde des manuscrits of the Bibliothèque du Roi. Biography Sallier ...
, 1729–1761, ecclesiastic and philologist #
Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet (15 September 1700, Saint-Pol-de-Léon – 21 March 1784, Paris) was a French ecclesiastic, bishop of Limoges and preceptor to the grandchildren of Louis XV. Biography Chancellor of Bourges, he served as bishop of Lim ...
, 1761–1784, ecclesiastic #
Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac (17 October 173930 December 1798) was a French general and writer. Due to his literary talent, he became a member of the Académie française in 1784. He was elected to the Estates-General of 1789. He ...
, 1784–1793, politician #
Antoine-Vincent Arnault Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1 January 176616 September 1834) was a French playwright. Life Arnault was born in Paris. His first play, ''Marius à Minturne'' (1791), immediately established his reputation. A year later he followed with a second ...
, 1803, excluded by ordinance 1816, re-elected in 1829 to seat 13, poet, fabulist and playwright # Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, 1816–1822, politician #
Bon-Joseph Dacier Bon Joseph Dacier (Valognes, 1 April 1742 – Paris, 4 February 1833) was a French historian, philologist and translator of ancient Greek. He became a Chevalier de l'Empire (16 December 1813), then Baron de l'Empire (29 May 1830). He also serve ...
, 1822–1833, philologist #
Pierre François Tissot Pierre François Tissot (20 March 1768 – 7 April 1854) was a French man of letters and politician. Biography Early years Tissot was born in Versailles to a native of Savoy, who was a perfumer appointed by royal warrant to the court. At the ag ...
, 1833–1854, poet and historian #
Félix Dupanloup Mgr. Félix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup (3 January 180211 October 1878) was a French ecclesiastic. He was among the leaders of Liberal Catholicism in France. Biography Dupanloup was born at Saint-Félix, in Haute-Savoie, an illegitimate son of ...
, 1854–1878, ecclesiastic #
Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier Edme-Armand-Gaston, duc d'Audiffret-Pasquier (21 October 1823, in Paris4 June 1905), known as Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier, was a French politician and member of the Académie française, Seat 16. He was preceded in his position by Félix Dupanloup ...
, 1878–1905, politician #
Alexandre Ribot Alexandre-Félix-Joseph Ribot (; 7 February 184213 January 1923) was a French politician, four times Prime Minister. Early career Ribot was born in Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais. After a brilliant academic career at the University of Paris, where h ...
, 1906–1923, politician, lawyer, magistrate and jurist # Henri-Robert, 1923–1936, lawyer and historian #
Charles Maurras Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras (; ; 20 April 1868 – 16 November 1952) was a French author, politician, poet, and critic. He was an organizer and principal philosopher of ''Action Française'', a political movement that is monarchist, anti-parl ...
, 1938, not excluded, but seat "declared vacant" for
Vichy Vichy (, ; ; oc, Vichèi, link=no, ) is a city in the Allier department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of central France, in the historic province of Bourbonnais. It is a spa and resort town and in World War II was the capital of ...
collaboration Collaboration (from Latin ''com-'' "with" + ''laborare'' "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most ...
in 1945, journalist, politician, essayist and poet # Antoine de Lévis Mirepoix, 1953–1981, novelist, historian and essayist #
Léopold Sédar Senghor Léopold Sédar Senghor (; ; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal (1960–80). Ideologically an African socialist, he was the major theoretician o ...
, 1983–2001, head of state (
Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...
), politician, poet and essayist #
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing (, , ; 2 February 19262 December 2020), also known as Giscard or VGE, was a French politician who served as President of France from 1974 to 1981. After serving as Minister of Finance under prime ...
, 2003–2020, former president of France


Seat 17

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François de Cauvigny de Colomby François de Cauvigny, sieur de ColombyAlso spelled Coulomby or Collomby. (Caen, c. 1588 – 1648) was a French poet, translator, conseiller du roi and "orateur du roi pour les discours d'État". biography François de Cauvigny de Colomby wa ...
, 1634–1649, poet #
François Tristan l'Hermite François l'Hermite (c. 16017 September 1655) was a French dramatist who wrote under the name Tristan l'Hermite. He was born at the Château de Soliers in the Haute Marche. Life His adventures began early, for he killed his enemy in a due ...
, 1649–1655, playwright and poet #
Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière (1610, Le Loroux-Bottereau – 4 June 1663, Paris) was a French physician, man of letters and dramatist. He was elected to the ''Académie française'' in 1655. He was a major figure in the next few years ...
, 1655–1663, critic, poet and historian #
François de Beauvilliers, 1st duc de Saint-Aignan François-Honorat de Beauvilliers, 1st duc de Saint-Aignan (30 October 160716 June 1687), born in Paris, was a French military leader, administrator and man of letters. He was peer of France and a member of the Académie française. Biography He ...
, 1663–1687, soldier # François-Timoléon de Choisy, 1687–1724, ecclesiastic #
Antoine Portail Antoine Portail (1675 – 3 May 1736) was a French politician, a First President of the Parlement of Paris, and a member of the French Academy. Background To fully understand this article, one must be familiar with the judicial system of France ...
, 1724–1736, politician #
Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée (14 February 1692 in Paris – 14 May 1754 in Paris) was a French dramatist who blurred the lines between comedy and tragedy with his '' comédie larmoyante''. In 1731 he published an ''Epître de Clio'', a d ...
, 1736–1754, playwright #
Jean-Pierre de Bougainville Jean-Pierre de Bougainville (1 December 1722, in Paris – 22 June 1763, in Loches) was a French writer and the elder brother of the explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville. He was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1746 ...
, 1754–1763, historian #
Jean-François Marmontel Jean-François Marmontel (11 July 1723 – 31 December 1799) was a French historian, writer and a member of the Encyclopédistes movement. Biography He was born of poor parents at Bort, Limousin (today in Corrèze). After studying with ...
, 1763–1793, philosopher and essayist #
Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes Louis-Marcelin, marquis de Fontanes (6 March 175717 March 1821) was a French poet and politician. Biography Born in Niort (Deux-Sèvres), he belonged to a noble Protestant family of Languedoc which had been reduced to poverty by the revocation of ...
, 1803–1821, politician, poet and journalist #
Abel-François Villemain Abel-François Villemain (9 June 17908 May 1870) was a French politician and writer. Biography Villemain was born in Paris and educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He became assistant master at the Lycée Charlemagne, and subsequently at the ...
, 1821–1870, politician and literary critic #
Émile Littré Émile Maximilien Paul Littré (; 1 February 18012 June 1881) was a French lexicographer, freemason and philosopher, best known for his ''Dictionnaire de la langue française'', commonly called . Biography Littré was born in Paris. His father, ...
, 1871–1881, philologist and philosopher #
Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named afte ...
, 1881–1895, chemist #
Gaston Paris Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris (; 9 August 1839 – 5 March 1903) was a French literary historian, philologist, and scholar specialized in Romance studies and medieval French literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, 19 ...
, 1896–1903, philologist and literary historian #
Frédéric Masson Louis Claude Frédéric Masson (8 March 1847, Paris – 19 February 1923, Paris) was a French historian. Life and career His father, Francis Masson, a solicitor, was killed on 23 June 1848 when he was a major in the ''garde nationale''. Young ...
, 1903–1923, historian #
Georges Lecomte Georges Lecomte (9 July 1867 – 27 August 1958) was a French novelist and playwright, who also wrote literary, historical and artistic studies. Lecomte was born in Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire. In 1924 he was elected to the Académie française, of ...
, 1924–1958, novelist, essayist, art critic and historian #
Jean Delay Jean Delay (14 November 1907, Bayonne – 29 May 1987, Paris) was a French psychiatrist, neurologist, writer, and a member of the Académie française (Chair 17). His assistant Pierre Deniker conducted a test of chlorpromazine on the male menta ...
, 1959–1987, psychiatrist, essayist and novelist #
Jacques Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (, also , ; 11 June 191025 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful Aqua-Lung, open-circuit SCUBA ( self-contained underwater breathing apparatus). T ...
, 1988–1997, oceanographer, film-maker and essayist #
Érik Orsenna Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult (born 22 March 1947) a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po"), Orsenna specialized in economic ...
, elected 1998, politician and novelist


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Jean Baudoin Jean Baudoin (1662–1698) was a French Sulpician priest who served as a missionary in Acadia, and later as a chaplain during military expeditions carried on by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. Life Jean Baudoin studied at the College of Nantes with ...
, 1634–1650, translator # François Charpentier, 1650–1702, novelist # Jean-François de Chamillart, 1702–1714, ecclesiastic #
Claude Louis Hector de Villars Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Prince de Martigues, Marquis then Duc de Villars, Vicomte de Melun (, 8 May 1653 – 17 June 1734) was a French military commander and an illustrious general of Louis XIV of France. He was one of only six Marshals ...
, 1714–1734, politician and soldier #
Honoré Armand de Villars Don Honoré Armand de Villars, 2e duc de Villars (4 October 1702, Paris – May 1770, Aix), Duke and Peer of France, Prince of Martigues, Grandee of Spain, Knight of the Golden Fleece, Viscount of Melun, Marquis of la Melle, Count of Rochemiley, ...
, 1734–1770, politician #
Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (9 October 172719 February 1794) was a French clergyman, bishop, cardinal, politician and finance minister of Louis XVI. Life Early career He was born in Paris, in the Loménie family from Flavignac ...
, 1770–1794, ecclesiastic, politician and philosopher #
Jean-Gérard Lacuée, count of Cessac Jean-Girard Lacuée, count of Cessac ( château de Lamassas),Castle of Lamassas
on Napoleon & Empi ...
, 1803–1841, politician #
Alexis de Tocqueville Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (; 29 July 180516 April 1859), colloquially known as Tocqueville (), was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, political philosopher and historian. He is best known for his wo ...
, 1841–1859, politician #
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire (12 May 1802 – 21 November 1861), often styled Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, was a French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist, theologian and political activist. He re-established the Dominican Order in p ...
, 1860–1861, ecclesiastic #
Albert, 4th duc de Broglie Jacques-Victor-Albert, 4th duc de Broglie (; 13 June 182119 January 1901) was a French monarchist politician, diplomat and writer (of historical works and translations). Broglie twice served as Prime Minister of France, first from May 1873 to M ...
, 1862–1901, politician, diplomat and historian # Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogüé, 1901–1916, archaeologist and historian #
Ferdinand Foch Ferdinand Foch ( , ; 2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French general and military theorist who served as the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War. An aggressive, even reckless commander at the First Marne, Flanders and Ar ...
, 1918–1929, soldier #
Philippe Pétain Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), commonly known as Philippe Pétain (, ) or Marshal Pétain (french: Maréchal Pétain), was a French general who attained the position of Marshal of France at the end of Worl ...
, 1929–1945, soldier (expelled from the Academy after trial; in 1945-1952 the seat was vacant) #
André François-Poncet André François-Poncet (13 June 1887 – 8 January 1978) was a French politician and diplomat whose post as ambassador to Germany allowed him to witness first-hand the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and the Nazi regime's ...
, 1952–1978, politician and diplomat #
Edgar Faure Edgar Jean Faure (; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956.Michel Serres Michel Serres (; 1 September 1930 – 1 June 2019) was a French philosopher, theorist and writer. His works explore themes of science, time and death, and later incorporated prose. Life and career The son of a bargeman, Serres entered France's ...
, 1990–2019, philosopher #
Mario Vargas Llosa Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (, ), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Ll ...
, elected 2021, novelist and essayist


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François de Porchères d'Arbaud François d'Arbaud de Porchères (1590-1640) was a French poet. Early life François de Porchères d'Arbaud was born on December 20, 1590 in Brignoles in the French department of Var. He went to Paris to study poetry under François de Malherbe, ...
, 1634–1640, poet #
Olivier Patru Olivier Patru (1604 – 16 January 1681) was a French lawyer and writer. He was born and died in Paris. External links * ''Œuvres diverses'' on the Cujas Library Cujas Library (french: Bibliothèque Cujas), named after the French jurist and ...
, 1640–1681, lawyer #
Nicolas Potier de Novion Nicolas Potier de Novion (1618 – 1 September 1693) was a French magistrate of the Ancien Régime ''Ancien'' may refer to * the French word for " ancient, old" ** Société des anciens textes français * the French for "former, senior" ** Virel ...
, 1681–1693, magistrate #
Philippe Goibaud-Dubois Philippe Goibaut des Bois La Grugère (; 22? March 1629 – 1 July 1694), known to his contemporaries as Monsieur Du Bois (), was a translator of St. Augustine, member of the Académie Française and director of Mademoiselle de Guise's musical ens ...
, 1693–1694, translator #
Charles Boileau Charles Boileau (born Beauvais, France 1648 – 28 May 1704, Paris) was a French ecclesiastic and preacher A preacher is a person who delivers sermons or homilies on religious topics to an assembly of people. Less common are preachers who ...
, 1694–1704, ecclesiastic #
Gaspard Abeille Gaspard Abeille (Riez, 1648 – Paris, 22 May 1718) was a French lyric and tragic poetry poet. He received the title of ''Abbé'' and in 1704 was elected a member of the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Ko ...
, 1704–1718, ecclesiastic #
Nicolas-Hubert de Mongault Nicolas-Hubert Mongault (6 October 1674 – 11 August 1746, Paris) was a French ecclesiastic and translator of the classics. He was an illegitimate son of Gilbert Colbert, Marquis de Saint-Pouange, a cousin of Louis XIV's powerful minister Jean-B ...
, 1718–1746, ecclesiastic #
Charles Pinot Duclos Charles Pinot (or Pineau) Duclos (12 February 1704 – 26 March 1772) was a French author and contributor to the '' Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers''. Biography Duclos was born at Dinan in Brittan ...
, 1746–1772, grammarian and historian #
Nicolas Beauzée Nicolas Beauzée (9 May 1717 in Verdun, Meuse – 23 January 1789 in Paris) was a French linguist, author of Grammaire générale (published 1767) and one of the main contributors to the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond ...
, 1772–1789, grammarian #
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (20 January 1716 – 30 April 1795) was a French scholar who became the first person to decipher an extinct language. He deciphered the Palmyrene alphabet in 1754 and the Phoenician alphabet in 1758. Early years Barth ...
, 1789–1795, ecclesiastic #
Joseph Chénier Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...
, 1803–1811, poet and playwright #
François-René de Chateaubriand François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who had a notable influence on French literature of the nineteenth century. Descended from an old aristocrati ...
, 1811–1848, politician, poet and novelist #
Paul, 6th duc de Noailles Paul de Noailles, 6th Duke of Noailles (4 January 1802 – 29 May 1885) was a French nobleman and historian. He was the grandnephew of the heirless Jean de Noailles, Jean-Paul-François de Noailles, 5th Duke of Noailles, and succeeded him as Du ...
, 1849–1885, historian #
Édouard Hervé Édouard Hervé (28 May 1835 – 4 January 1899) was a French journalist, historian and politician. Life Édouard Hervé was born in Saint-Denis, La Réunion on 28 May 1835. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, Paris city councilor an ...
, 1886–1899, politician # Paul Deschanel, 1899–1922, politician # Auguste Jonnart, 1923–1927, politician, senior bureaucrat and diplomat # Maurice Paléologue, 1928–1944, diplomat and historian # Charles de Chambrun, 1946–1952, diplomat # Fernand Gregh, 1953–1960, poet, literary critic and historian #
René Clair René Clair (11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981), born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer. He first established his reputation in the 1920s as a director of silent films in which comedy was often mingled with fantasy. He wen ...
, 1960–1981, film director and novelist # Pierre Moinot, 1982–2007, senior bureaucrat and novelist #
Jean-Loup Dabadie Jean-Loup Dabadie (27 September 1938 – 24 May 2020) was a French journalist, writer, lyricist, screenwriter and member of the Académie Française. Filmography * '' Anna'' (1967) * '' Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me'' (1972) * '' Parisian Life'' ...
, 2008–2020, journalist, lyricist and screenwriter


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Paul Hay du Chastelet Paul Hay du Chastelet (November 1592 – 26 April 1636) was a French magistrate, orator, and writer. His brother, Daniel Hay du Chastelet de Chambon, was a mathematician. Biography Du Chastelet was born at Laval, Mayenne, a member of the ancient ...
, 1634–1636, lawyer #
Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt (5 April 1606, Châlons-en-Champagne – 17 November 1664, Paris) was a French translator of the Greek and Latin classics into French and a member of the Académie française. Biography Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt was ...
, 1637–1664, translator #
Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy (13 April 1618 – 9 April 1693), commonly known as Bussy-Rabutin, was a French memoirist. He was the cousin and frequent correspondent of Madame de Sévigné. Born at Epiry, near Autun, he represented a fami ...
, 1665–1693, novelist #
Jean-Paul Bignon The Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon, Cong.Orat. (19 September 1662, Paris – 14 March 1743, Île Belle) was a French ecclesiastic, statesman, writer and preacher and librarian to Louis XIV of France. His protégé, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, named t ...
, 1693–1743, ecclesiastic #
Armand-Jérôme Bignon Armand-Jérôme Bignon (21 October 1711, Paris – 8 March 1772, Paris) was a French lawyer, royal librarian and conseiller d'État. Biography The lord of Île Belle and Hardricourt, he was made avocat général to the Grand Conseil in 1729, ...
, 1743–1772, politician #
Louis-Georges de Bréquigny Louis-Georges-Oudard-Feudrix de Bréquigny (22 February 1714 – 3 July 1795), was a French scholar. He was born at Granville, Manche in Normandy. His first publications were anonymous: a ''History of the Revolutions of Genoa up to the Peace ...
, 1772–1795, historian # Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun, 1803–1807, poet #
François Juste Marie Raynouard François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters" * Francis II of France, King ...
, 1807–1836, lawyer, poet and playwright # François Mignet, 1836–1884, historian #
Victor Duruy Jean Victor Duruy (10 September 1811 – 25 November 1894) was a French historian and statesman. Life Duruy was born in Paris, the son of a factory worker, and at first intended for his father's trade. Having passed brilliantly through the Éc ...
, 1884–1894, politician and historian #
Jules Lemaître François Élie Jules Lemaître (27 April 1853 – 4 August 1914) was a French critic and dramatist. Biography Lemaître was born in Vennecy, Loiret. He became a professor at the University of Grenoble in 1883, but was already well known for his ...
, 1895–1914, playwright and critic #
Henry Bordeaux Henry Bordeaux (25 January 1870 – 29 March 1963) was a French writer and lawyer. Bordeaux came from a family of lawyers of Savoy. He was born in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie. His grandfather was a magistrate and his father served on the Chamb ...
, 1919–1963, lawyer and novelist # Thierry Maulnier, 1964–1988, journalist and playwright #
José Cabanis José Cabanis (2 March 1922 – 6 October 2000) was a French novelist, essayist, historian and magistrate. He was elected mainteneur of the Académie des Jeux floraux in 1965 and a member of the Académie française in 1990. Works *''La Piti ...
, 1990–2000, magistrate and novelist #
Angelo Rinaldi Angelo Rinaldi (born 17 June 1940) is a French writer and literary critic. Biography Rinaldi is the son of Pierre-François Rinaldi and Antoinette Pietri; after growing up in Corsica he became a journalist. He initially worked as a reporter a ...
, elected 2001, writer


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Marin le Roy de Gomberville Marin le Roy, sieur du Parc et de Gomberville (1600 – 14 June 1674) was a French poet and novelist. He was born at Paris, and at fourteen he produced a volume of poetry. At twenty he wrote a ''Discours sur l'histoire'' and at twenty-two a pa ...
, 1634–1674, novelist # Pierre Daniel Huet, 1674–1721, ecclesiastic # Jean Boivin le Cadet, 1721–1726, professor #
Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, duke of Saint-Aignan Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, duke of Saint-Aignan (15 November 1684, in Paris – 22 January 1776, in Paris) was a French diplomat, soldier, chevalier des ordres du Roi and peer of France. Family He was the son of François Honorat de Beauv ...
, 1726–1776, politician #
Charles-Pierre Colardeau Charles-Pierre Colardeau (12 October 1732 in Janville, Eure-et-Loir, Janville – 7 April 1776 in Paris) was a French poet. His most notable works are an imitation of ''Eloisa to Abelard'' by Alexander Pope and a translation of the first two sec ...
, 1776, poet and playwright # Jean-François de La Harpe, 1776–1793, poet, playwright and critic #
Pierre Louis de Lacretelle Pierre Louis de Lacretelle (9 October 1751 – 5 September 1824) was a French lawyer, politician and writer. He was born in Metz, the elder brother of Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle. He practised as a barrister in Paris. In 1784 he shar ...
, 1803–1824, lawyer #
Joseph Droz François-Xavier-Joseph Droz (; 31 December 1773 – 9 November 1850) was a reactionary French writer on ethics, political science and political economy. Biography He was born at Besançon, where his family had supplied many notable members of ...
, 1824–1850, philosopher and historian #
Charles Forbes René de Montalembert Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (; 15 April 1810, in London – 13 March 1870, in Paris) was a French publicist, historian and Count of Montalembert, Deux-Sèvres, and a prominent representative of liberal Catholicism. Family Charles For ...
, 1851–1870, philosopher #
Henri d'Orleans, duke of Aumale Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry. People with this given name ; French noblemen :'' See the ' List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.'' * Henri I de Mon ...
, 1871–1897, soldier, politician and historian # Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, 1898–1905, sculptor #
Étienne Lamy Étienne Marie Victor Lamy (2 June 1845, in Cize, Jura – 9 January 1919) was a French author. He was educated at the College Stanislas and became a doctor of law in 1870. From 1871 to 1881 he was a deputy from his native department, Jura, a ...
, 1905–1919, essayist, politician and lawyer #
André Chevrillon André Chevrillon (3 May 1864 – 9 July 1957) was a French writer, a nephew of Hippolyte Taine, who chose England and the Orient as objects of study. Chevrillon was born at Ruelle (Charente), and educated at the University College School (Lon ...
, 1920–1957, essayist and literary historian and critic #
Marcel Achard Marcel Achard (5 July 1899 – 4 September 1974) was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies Garzanti p. 3 maintained his position as a highly recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles ...
, 1959–1974, playwright and journalist #
Félicien Marceau Félicien Marceau (16 September 1913 – 7 March 2012) was a French novelist, playwright and essayist originally from Belgium. His real name was Louis Carette. He was close to the Hussards right-wing literary movement, which in turn was close t ...
, 1975–2012, playwright, novelist and essayist #
Alain Finkielkraut Alain Finkielkraut (, ; ; born 30 June 1949) is a French philosopher and public intellectual. He has written books and essays on a wide range of topics, many on the ideas of tradition and identitary nonviolence, including Jewish identity and ant ...
, elected 2014, philosopher and essayist


Seat 22

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Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant Antoine Girard, sieur de Saint-Amant (September 30, 1594December 29, 1661) was a French poet. Saint-Amant was born near Rouen. His father was a merchant who had, according to his son's account, been a sailor and had commanded for 22 years "''une ...
, 1634–1661, poet #
Jacques Cassagne Jacques Cassagne or Jacques de Cassaigne (1 January 1636, Nîmes – 19 May 1679, Paris) was a French clergyman, poet, and moralist. Biography A doctor of theology, he was 'garde' of the king's library and entered the Académie française aged 2 ...
, 1662–1679, ecclesiastic and poet #
Louis de Verjus Louis (de) Verjus, count of Crécy (1629, Paris – 13 December 1709) was a French politician and diplomat. Biography A Conseiller d’État and brother of the notable Jesuit and procurer for missions to the Levant Antoine Verjus (22 January 16 ...
, 1679–1709, politician # Jean-Antoine de Mesmes, 1710–1723, magistrate #
Pierre-Joseph Alary Pierre-Joseph Alary (19 March 1689, Paris – 15 December 1770) was a French ecclesiastic and writer. Biography Prior of Gournay-sur-Marne and sous-précepteur to Louis XV, he attended the salon of Madame de Lambert, was elected to the Acad ...
, 1723–1770, ecclesiastic #
Gabriel-Henri Gaillard Gabriel-Henri Gaillard (26 March 1726 – 13 February 1806) was a French historian. Life Gaillard was born in Ostel, Picardy. He was educated for the bar, but after finishing his studies adopted a literary career, ultimately devoting his chie ...
, 1771–1806, ecclesiastic, historian, grammarian and journalist #
Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur (10 December 175327 August 1830) was a French diplomat and historian. Biography Ségur was born in Paris, the son of Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur and Louise Anne Madeleine de Vernon. He entered the army in 1 ...
, 1806–1830, diplomat, historian, poet and playwright #
Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet (18 November 1777 – 10 July 1868) was a French politician, playwright and poet. He was also a member of the Académie française and a prominent Freemason. His long career as a soldier then a politician, playwright a ...
, 1830–1868, politician, poet and playwright #
Joseph d'Haussonville Joseph Othenin Bernard de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville (27 May 1809 – 28 May 1884), was a French politician and historian. He was born in Paris. His grandfather had been ''grand louvetier'' of France; his father was Charles Louis Bernard de Cl ...
, 1869–1884, politician and diplomat # Ludovic Halévy, 1884–1908, playwright, librettist and novelist #
Eugène Brieux Eugène Brieux (; 19 January 18586 December 1932), French dramatist, was born in Paris of poor parents. Biography Works A one-act play, ''Bernard Palissy'', written in collaboration with M. Gaston Salandri, was produced in 1879, but he h ...
, 1909–1932, playwright #
François Mauriac François Charles Mauriac (, oc, Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the'' Académie française'' (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize ...
, 1933–1970, writer, essayist and literary critic #
Julien Green Julien Green (September 6, 1900 – August 13, 1998) was an American writer who authored several novels (''The Dark Journey'', ''The Closed Garden'', ''Moira'', ''Each Man in His Darkness'', the ''Dixie'' trilogy, etc.), a four-volume autobiog ...
, 1971–1998, novelist and playwright #
René de Obaldia René de Obaldia (22 October 1918 – 27 January 2022) was a French playwright and poet. He was elected to the Académie française on 24 June 1999. Biography He was the great-grandson of José Domingo de Obaldía, the second President of Pana ...
, 1999–2022, playwright and poet


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Guillaume Colletet Guillaume Colletet (12 March 1598 – 11 February 1659) was a French poet and a founder member of the Académie française. His son was François Colletet. Biography Colletet was born and died in Paris. He had a great reputation among his conte ...
, 1634–1659, lawyer and playwright #
Gilles Boileau Gilles Boileau (22 October 1631, Paris – 18 March 1669), the elder brother of the more famous Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, was a French translator and member of the Académie française. Boileau was well regarded as a classicist by his contem ...
, 1659–1669, poet #
Jean de Montigny The Abbé Jean de Montigny (1636 – 28 September 1671) was a French philosophic writer and poet, elected to the Académie française, but who died in his prime. Biography Born in Brittany, Montigny was encouraged by the marquise de Guiche, a ...
, 1670–1671, ecclesiastic and poet #
Charles Perrault Charles Perrault ( , also , ; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was an iconic French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tale ...
, 1671–1703, poet # Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan, 1703–1749, ecclesiastic and politician # Louis-Gui de Guérapin de Vauréal, 1749–1760, ecclesiastic and politician #
Charles Marie de La Condamine Charles Marie de La Condamine (28 January 1701 – 4 February 1774) was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician. He spent ten years in territory which is now Ecuador, measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the equator and p ...
, 1760–1774, explorer #
Jacques Delille The French poet Jacques Delille (; 22 June 1738 at Aigueperse in Auvergne – 1 May 1813, in Paris) came to national prominence with his translation of Virgil’s Georgics and made an international reputation with his didactic poem on gardening ...
, 1774–1813, ecclesiastic and poet #
François-Nicolas-Vincent Campenon François Nicolas Vincent Campenon (29 March 1772, Saint-François, Guadeloupe – 29 November 1843, Villecresnes) was a French poet and translator from Latin and English. Biography Works Poems *''Épître aux femmes'' (1800) *''La Maison des ...
, 1813–1843, poet #
Marc Girardin Saint-Marc Girardin (22 February 1801 – 1 April 1873) was a French politician and man of letters, whose real name was Marc Girardin. Biography Girardin was born in Paris. After a brilliant university career in the city, he began in 1828 to cont ...
, 1844–1873, politician and literary critic #
Alfred Mézières Alfred Jean François Mézières (19 November 1826, in Réhon – 10 October 1915, in Réhon) was a French journalist, politician and historian of literature. Biography Alfred Mézières was educated at Metz College and the École Normale Supér ...
, 1874–1915, literary historian, politician and essayist #
René Boylesve René Boylesve (14 April 1867 in La Haye-Descartes – 14 January 1926 in Paris), born René Marie Auguste Tardiveau, was a French writer and a literary critic. Biography Boylesve was orphaned early and went to school in Poitiers and Tours. In ...
, 1918–1926, novelist and poet #
Abel Hermant Abel Hermant (3 February 1862 – 29 September 1950) was a French novelist, playwright, essayist and writer, and member of the Académie française. Life and career Hermant was born in Paris, the son of an architect. He received a degree from t ...
, 1927–1945, novelist, essayist and journalist #
Étienne Gilson Étienne Henri Gilson (; 13 June 1884 – 19 September 1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. A scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes; he also philosophized in the tradition ...
, 1946–1978, philosopher # Henri Gouhier, 1979–1994, philosopher and literary critic #
Pierre Rosenberg Pierre Max Rosenberg (born 13 April 1936) is a French art historian, curator, and professor. Rosenberg is the honorary president a director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and since 1995, he has held the 23rd seat of the Académie Française. ...
, elected 1995, art historian and essayist


Seat 24

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Jean de Silhon Jean de Silhon (1596, Sos, Lot-et-Garonne – February 1667, Paris) was a French philosopher and politician. He was a founding member, and the first to occupy seat 24 of the Académie française in 1634. At Cardinal Richelieu Armand Jean du P ...
, 1634–1667, politician #
Jean-Baptiste Colbert Jean-Baptiste Colbert (; 29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683) was a French statesman who served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. His lasting impact on the organization of the country ...
, 1667–1683, politician #
Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine (, , ; 8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his ''Fables'', which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Euro ...
, 1684–1695, poet #
Jules de Clérambault Jules de Clérambault (ca. 1660 – 17 August 1714) was a French ecclesiastic and Abbot of Saint-Taurin d’Évreux. He was the son of Marshal of France Philippe de Clérambault de La Palluau, and brother of Philippe, who in 1704 as lieutenant g ...
, 1695–1714, ecclesiastic #
Guillaume Massieu Guillaume Massieu (13 April 1665, Caen Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,
, 1714–1722, ecclesiastic #
Claude-François-Alexandre Houtteville Claude François Alexandre Houtteville (1686, Paris – 9 November 1742, Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (4 ...
, 1722–1742, ecclesiastic #
Pierre de Marivaux Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (4 February 1688 – 12 February 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French playwright and novelist. He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing nume ...
, 1742–1763, playwright and novelist #
Claude-François Lysarde de Radonvilliers Claude-François Lizarde de Radonvilliers (1709, Decize, Nièvre – 20 April 1789) was a French churchman and teacher. In 1763, Lizarde de Radonvilliers was elected to the Académie française. From 1770 until his death, he was commendatory abbot ...
, 1763–1789, ecclesiastic # Constantin-François Chassebœuf, 1803–1820, philosopher # Claude-Emmanuel de Pastoret, 1820–1840, politician, lawyer and poet #
Louis de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire Louis-Clair de Beaupoil comte de Saint-Aulaire (9 April 1778, in Baguer-Pican – 13 November 1854, in Paris) was a French politician. Life After attending school at the École des ponts et chaussées and polytechnique (from which he gradu ...
, 1841–1854, politician # Victor de Broglie, 1855–1870, politician #
Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne (3 August 1798, Rouen – 20 May 1881, Herry Herry may refer to: People * Herry Iman Pierngadi (born 1962), Indonesian badminton coach * Herry Janto Setiawan (born 1973), Indonesian cyclist * Herry Kiswanto (born ...
, 1870–1881, politician #
Sully Prudhomme René François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme (; 16 March 1839 – 6 September 1907) was a French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901. Born in Paris, Prudhomme originall ...
, 1881–1907, poet and essayist #
Henri Poincaré Jules Henri Poincaré ( S: stress final syllable ; 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "Th ...
, 1908–1912, mathematician, astronomer, engineer and philosopher #
Alfred Capus Alfred Capus (25 November 18581 November 1922) was a French journalist and playwright, who was born in Aix-en-Provence and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Biography Son of a lawyer from Marseille, Alfred Capus went to university in Toulon. After fail ...
, 1914–1922, playwright, journalist and essayist # Édouard Estaunié, 1923–1942, novelist and engineer #
Louis-Pasteur Vallery-Radot Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot (3 May 1886, Paris - 9 October 1970, Paris) was a French physician, biographer of his grandfather Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist ...
, 1944–1970, doctor #
Étienne Wolff Étienne Wolff (Auxerre, 12 February 1904 – Paris, 18 November 1996) was a French biologist, specialising in experimental and teratological embryology. He led the Société zoologique de France from 1958 and was elected to the French Academy o ...
, 1971–1996, biologist # Jean-François Revel, 1997–2006, historian and essayist # Max Gallo, 2007–2017, journalist and novelist #
François Sureau François Sureau (born 19 September 1957) is a French writer, lawyer and technocrat. He was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and educated at the École nationale d'administration (ENA). He is a co-founder and co-director of the French Rev ...
, elected 2020, writer


Seat 25

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Claude de L'Estoile Claude de L'Estoile (1602, Paris – May 1652) was a French playwright and poet. He was a founder member of the Académie française. Biography Third son of Pierre de L'Estoile he inherited fortune, he devoted himself entirely to poetry and bell ...
, 1634–1652, playwright and poet #
Armand de Camboust, duc de Coislin Armand du Cambout, 1st Duke of Coislin (1 September 1635, Paris – 16 September 1702) was a French lieutenant général des armées du roi, and a duke and peer of France. The son of a colonel in the Swiss Guards, he was elected a member of the Ac ...
, 1652–1702, soldier #
Pierre de Camboust, duc de Coislin Pierre du Cambout, 2nd Duke of Coislin (1664–1710) was a duke and Peerage of France, peer of France, succeeding his Armand de Camboust, duc de Coislin, father. He was admitted to the Académie française in his father's seat on 11 December 1702 ...
, 1702–1710, aristocrat # Henri Charles du Cambout de Coislin, 1710–1732, ecclesiastic #
Jean-Baptiste Surian Jean-Baptiste Surian (20 September 1670, Saint-Chamas – 3 August 1754) was a French Oratorian and preacher who became bishop of Vence. He was elected to the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀ ...
, 1733–1754, ecclesiastic # Jean Le Rond, dit d'Alembert, 1754–1783, philosopher and mathematician # Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, 1783–1793, biographer #
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis (1 April 1746 – 25 August 1807) was a French jurist and politician in the time of the French Revolution and the First Empire. His son, Joseph Marie Portalis, was a diplomat and statesman. Biography Early years Por ...
, 1803–1807, politician, philosopher and lawyer #
Pierre Laujon Pierre Laujon (13 January 1727 – 13 July 1811) was a French playwright and chansonnier. He was uncle to the playwright Pierre-Yves Barré. Works ;Theatre *1745: ''La Fille, la veuve et la femme'', parodie nouvelle des ''Fêtes de Thalie'', ...
, 1807–1811, poet and songwriter # Charles-Guillaume Étienne, 1811–1816, poet and playwright, excluded by ordinance # Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, (2nd time), 1816–1817 #
Jean-Louis Laya Jean-Louis Laya (4 December 1761, Paris – 25 August 1833, Meudon) was a French playwright. He wrote his first comedy in collaboration with Gabriel-Marie Legouvé in 1785. The piece, however, though accepted by the Comédie française, was neve ...
, 1817–1833, poet and playwright #
Charles Nodier Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier (29 April 1780 – 27 January 1844) was a French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the ''conte fantastique'', gothic literature, and vampire tales. His dream related writings ...
, 1833–1844, novelist, poet and grammarian #
Prosper Mérimée Prosper Mérimée (; 28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, and a ...
, 1844–1870, novelist #
Louis de Loménie Louis-Léonard de Loménie (3 December 1815 – 2 April 1878) was a French scholar and essayist. He is best known for his biography of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, and also edited this author's complete works. Biography Loménie was bo ...
, 1871–1878, essayist #
Hippolyte Taine Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (, 21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitio ...
, 1878–1893, essayist and historian #
Albert Sorel Albert Sorel (13 August 184229 June 1906) was a French historian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times. Life He was born at Honfleur and remained throughout his life a lover of his native Normandy. His father, a rich manu ...
, 1894–1906, historian # Maurice Donnay, 1907–1945, playwright #
Marcel Pagnol Marcel Paul Pagnol (; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionabl ...
, 1946–1974, playwright, film-maker and novelist # Jean Bernard, 1976–2006, medical doctor #
Dominique Fernandez Dominique Fernandez (born 25 August 1929) is a French writer of novels, essays and travel books. Much of his writing explores homosexual experience and creativity. In 1982 he won the Prix Goncourt for his novel about Pier Paolo Pasolini; and in 2 ...
, elected 2007, novelist and literary critic


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#
Amable de Bourzeys Amable de Bourzeis (6 April 1606, Volvic – 2 August 1672, Paris) was a French churchman, writer, hellenist, and Academician. A founding member of the Académie française, in 1663 Jean-Baptiste Colbert also made him one of the five foundin ...
, 1634–1672, ecclesiastic and scholar # Jean Gallois, 1672–1707, ecclesiastic #
Edme Mongin Edme Mongin (January 1668 – 5 May 1746) was a French preacher and bishop of Bazas. He was born in Baroville and died, aged about 78, in Bazas.Louis Moréri, ''Dictionnaire Historique'', 1731, 1 vol. p. 52. He was the son of Etienne Mongin ...
, 1707–1746, ecclesiastic #
Jean Ignace de La Ville Jean Ignace de La Ville (1690 in Bayonne – 15 April 1774) was a French churchman and diplomat. He was a Bishop of the titular see of Tricomie, a diplomat and a high ranking civil servant for the Foreign Minister René Louis de Voyer de Paulm ...
, 1746–1774, ecclesiastic and diplomat #
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard (15 January 1732 – 20 July 1817) was a French journalist, translator and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment. He was born in Besançon and died in Paris. Biography Suard was incarcerated in the ''Royal F ...
, 1774–1817, essayist # Jean-François Roger, 1817–1842, poet and playwright #
Henri Patin Henri Joseph Guillaume Patin (21 August 1793, in Paris – 19 February 1876) was a French writer and translator of Ancient Greek and Latin. Works * ''Mélanges de littérature ancienne et moderne'' (1840) * ''Études sur les tragiques grecs, ...
, 1842–1876, professor #
Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier (15 August 1823 – 20 November 1908), French classical scholar, and secretary of the Académie française, was born at Nîmes. The Roman monuments of his native town very early attracted Gaston Boissier to the ...
, 1876–1908, historian and philologist #
René Doumic René Doumic (7 March 1860, in Paris – 2 December 1937), French critic and man of letters, was born in Paris, and after a distinguished career at the École Normale began to teach rhetoric at the Collège Stanislas de Paris. Life Doumic attend ...
, 1909–1937, literary historian and critic, and essayist #
André Maurois André Maurois (; born Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog; 26 July 1885 – 9 October 1967) was a French author. Biography Maurois was born on 26 July 1885 in Elbeuf and educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen, both in Normandy. A member of ...
, 1938–1967, novelist, essayist, literary historian and critic # Marcel Arland, 1968–1986, novelist, essayist, literary historian and critic #
Georges Duby Georges Duby (7 October 1919 – 3 December 1996) was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of Fran ...
, 1987–1996, historian #
Jean-Marie Rouart Jean-Marie Rouart (born 8 April 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French novelist, essayist and journalist. He was elected to the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institutio ...
, elected 1997, novelist and essayist


Seat 27

# Abel Servien, 1634–1659, politician #
Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer Jean-Jacques Renouard, seigneur de Villayer (24 June 1607, Nantes – 5 March 1691, Paris) was a member of the French '' Conseil d'État'', which had been delegated special legal authorities by the absolutist reigning King Louis XIV. In 1653 as th ...
, 1659–1691, politician # Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, 1691–1757, playwright and philosopher #
Antoine-Louis Séguier Antoine-Louis Séguier (1 December 1726 in Paris – 26 January 1792 in Tournai) was a French lawyer and magistrate. Biography Séguier became avocat du roi in 1748, avocat général to the Grand Conseil in 1751, then to the Parlement de Paris i ...
, 1757–1792, lawyer #
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (also called Bernardin de St. Pierre) (19 January 1737, in Le Havre – 21 January 1814, in Éragny, Val-d'Oise) was a French writer and botanist. He is best known for his 1788 novel '' Paul et Virginie'', ...
, 1803–1814, essayist #
Étienne Aignan Étienne Aignan (9 April 1773, Beaugency – 21 June 1824, Paris) was a French translator, political writer, librettist and playwright. In 1814 he was made a member of the Académie française, succeeding Bernardin de Saint-Pierre in Seat 27. He ...
, 1814–1824, journalist and playwright #
Alexandre Soumet Alexandre Soumet (; 18 February 178830 March 1845) was a French poet. Biography Alexandre Soumet was born at Castelnaudary, ''département'' of Aude. His love of poetry began at an early age. He was an admirer of Klopstock and Schiller, then li ...
, 1824–1845, poet and playwright #
Ludovic Vitet Ludovic Vitet (18 October 18025 June 1873) was a French dramatist and politician. Early life and career Ludovic Vitet was born in Paris. He came from a wealthy bourgeois family, as the grandson of former member of the National Convention Louis V ...
, 1845–1873, archaeologist #
Elme Marie Caro Elme Marie Caro (4 March 1826, Poitiers, Vienne13 July 1887, Paris) was a French philosopher. Life His father, a professor of philosophy, gave him an education at the Stanislas College and the École Normale, where he graduated in 1848. After b ...
, 1874–1887, philosopher #
Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville (21 September 18431 September 1924) was a French politician and author. Biography Born at Gurcy-le-Châtel (Seine-et-Marne), de Cléron was the son of Joseph Othenin Bernard de Cléron, com ...
, 1888–1924, politician and lawyer #
Auguste-Armand de la Force Auguste Armand Ghislain Marie Joseph Nompar de Caumont de La Force (18 August 1878, Dieppe – 3 October 1961, Saint-Aubin-de-Locquenay), 12th Duke of La Force, was a French duke and historian. Specialising in the 17th century (he was himself a de ...
, 1925–1961 historian #
Joseph Kessel Joseph Kessel (10 February 1898 – 23 July 1979), also known as "Jef", was a French journalist and novelist. He was a member of the Académie française and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. Biography Kessel was born to a Jewish family in ...
, 1962–1979, journalist and novelist #
Michel Droit Michel Droit (23 January 1923 in Vincennes, Val-de-Marne – 22 June 2000) was a French novelist and journalist. He was the father of the photographer Éric Droit (1954–2007). Biography After studying at the Faculté des lettres de Paris and S ...
, 1980–2001, novelist #
Pierre Nora Pierre Nora (born 17 November 1931) is a French historian elected to the Académie française on 7 June 2001. He is known for his work on French identity and memory. His name is associated with the study of new history. He is the brother of t ...
, elected 2001, historian


Seat 28

# Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, 1634–1654, essayist # Paul Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, 1654–1670, ecclesiastic and historian #
François de Harlay de Champvallon François de Harlay de Champvallon (François III de Harlay; 14 August 1625 – 6 August 1695) was the fifth Archbishop of Paris. Life and church Early years Harlay de Champvallon was born in Paris, the nephew of François de Harlay, archb ...
, 1671–1695, ecclesiastic #
André Dacier André Dacier ( la, Andreas Dacerius; 6 April 165118 September 1722) was a French classical scholar and editor of texts. He began his career with an edition and commentary of Festus' '' De verborum significatione'', and was the first to produce a ...
, 1695–1722, philologist and translator #
Guillaume Dubois Guillaume Dubois (6 September 1656 – 10 August 1723) was a French cardinal and statesman. Life and government Early years Dubois, the third of the four great Cardinal-Ministers ( Richelieu, Mazarin, Dubois, and Fleury), was born in Brive-la- ...
, 1722–1723, ecclesiastic and politician # Charles-Jean-François Hénault, 1723–1770, magistrate #
Charles Juste de Beauvau Charles Juste de Beauvau, Prince of Craon (10 September 1720 – 21 May 1793), 2nd Prince of Craon (1754), Marshal of France (1783) was a French scholar, nobleman and general. The son of Marc de Beauvau, he was also brother of the famous Madame ...
, 1771–1793, politician and soldier #
Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai Philippe-Antoine Merlin, known as Merlin de Douai (, 30 October 1754 – 26 December 1838) was a French politician and lawyer. Personal and public life Early years Merlin de Douai was born at Arleux, Nord, and was called to the Flemish bar asso ...
, 1803–1815, politician and lawyer; removed by ordinance #
Antoine-François-Claude Ferrand Antoine François Claude, comte Ferrand (4 July 175117 January 1825), French statesman and political writer, was born in Paris, and became a member of the ''parlement'' of Paris at eighteen. Life and career Ferrand left France with the first part ...
, 1816–1825, magistrate, poet, historian and playwright #
Casimir Delavigne Jean-François Casimir Delavigne (4 April 179311 December 1843) was a French poet and dramatist. Life and career Delavigne was born at Le Havre, but was sent to Paris to be educated at the Lycée Napoleon. He read extensively. When, on 20 Marc ...
, 1825–1843, poet and playwright #
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (; 23 December 1804 – 13 October 1869) was a French literary critic. Early life He was born in Boulogne, educated there, and studied medicine at the Collège Charlemagne in Paris (1824–27). In 1828, he s ...
, 1844–1869, essayist and poet #
Jules Janin Jules Gabriel Janin (16 February 1804 – 19 June 1874) was a French writer and critic. Life and career Born in Saint-Étienne ( Loire), Janin's father was a lawyer, and he was educated first at St. Étienne, and then at the lycée Louis-le-G ...
, 1870–1874, novelist and critic #
John Lemoinne John-Marguerite-Émile Lemoinne (17 October 1815 – 14 December 1892) was a French journalist. Personal and public life Early years Lemoinne was born of French parents in London. He was educated first at an English school and then in France. In ...
, 1875–1892, diplomat and journalist #
Ferdinand Brunetière Ferdinand Brunetière (19 July 1849 – 9 December 1906) was a French writer and critic. Personal and public life Early years Brunetière was born in Toulon, Var, Provence. After school at Marseille, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Gr ...
, 1893–1906, literary critic, historian of literature and essayist # Henri Barboux, 1907–1910, lawyer #
Henry Roujon Henry Roujon (1 September 1853, Paris – 1 June 1914, Paris) was a French academic, essayist and novelist. Roujon was the secretary of Jules Ferry, and became director of Fine Arts in 1894. Later he was named secretary for life of the Acad ...
, 1911–1914, senior bureaucrat, essayist and novelist #
Louis Barthou Jean Louis Barthou (; 25 August 1862 – 9 October 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic who served as Prime Minister of France for eight months in 1913. In social policy, his time as prime minister saw the introduction (in Jul ...
, 1918–1934, politician, magistrate, historian and historian of literature; assassinated #
Claude Farrère Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (27 April 1876, in Lyon – 21 June 1957, in Paris), was a French Navy officer and writer. Many of his novels are based in exotic locations such as Istanbul, Saigon, or Nagasaki. One of ...
, 1935–1957, novelist, essayist and historian #
Henri Troyat Henri Troyat (born Lev Aslanovich Tarasov; – 2 March 2007) was a Russian-born French author, biographer, historian and novelist. Early life Lev Aslanovich Tarasov (russian: link=no, Лев Асланович Тарасов, ''Lev Aslanovich ...
, 1959–2007, novelist, historian of literature, historian #
Jean-Christophe Rufin Jean-Christophe Rufin (born 28 June 1952) is a French doctor, diplomat, historian, globetrotter and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger, one of the earliest members of Médecins Sans Frontières, and a member of the Académie ...
, elected 2008, physician and novelist


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Pierre Bardin Pierre Bardin (1590 – 29 May 1635), born in Rouen, was a French philosopher and mathematician and Doctor of Letters. He was one of the first members of the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκ ...
, 1634–1635, philosopher and mathematician # Nicolas Bourbon, 1637–1644, ecclesiastic #
François-Henri Salomon de Virelade François-Henri Salomon de Virelade (4 October 1620, Bordeaux – 2 March 1670, Bordeaux) was a French lawyer. He was elected the third occupant of Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία ...
, 1644–1670, lawyer # Philippe Quinault, 1670–1688, poet and playwright #
François de Callières François de Callières, sieur de Rochelay et de Gigny (14 May 1645, Thorigny-sur-Vire, Lower Normandy – 5 March 1717, Paris) was a member of the Académie française, a diplomat and writer, a special envoy of Louis XIV who was one of three French ...
, 1688–1717, philologist #
André-Hercule de Fleury André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, Archbishop of Aix (22 June or 26 June 165329 January 1743) was a French cardinal who served as the chief minister of Louis XV. Life and government He was born in Lodève, Hérault, the son of a tax fa ...
, 1717–1743, ecclesiastic and politician # Paul d'Albert de Luynes, 1743–1788, ecclesiastic #
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (March 6, 1755 in the château of Florian, near Sauve, Gard – September 13, 1794 in Sceaux) was a French poet, novelist and fabulist. Life Florian's mother, a Spanish lady named Gilette de Salgues, died when ...
, 1788–1794, playwright, novelist and poet #
Jean-François Cailhava de L'Estandoux Jean-François is a French given name. Notable people bearing the given name include: * Jean-François Carenco (born 1952), French politician * Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832), French Egyptologist * Jean-François Clervoy (born 1958), Fre ...
, 1803–1813, playwright, poet and critic # Joseph Michaud, 1813–1839, journalist and historian # Jean Pierre Flourens, 1840–1867, physiologist #
Claude Bernard Claude Bernard (; 12 July 1813 – 10 February 1878) was a French physiologist. Historian I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science". He originated the term '' milieu intérieur'', and the ...
, 1868–1878, doctor #
Ernest Renan Joseph Ernest Renan (; 27 February 18232 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, expert of Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic. He wrote in ...
, 1878–1892, philosopher #
Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour (19 May 1827 – 26 October 1896) was a French statesman. Biography Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour was born in Avranches in the Manche ''département'' of northwestern France. After passing through the École Normale ...
, 1893–1896, politician and diplomat #
Gabriel Hanotaux Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux (19 November 1853 – 11 April 1944) was a French statesman and historian. Biography He was born at Beaurevoir in the ''département'' of Aisne. He studied history at the École des Cha ...
, 1897–1944, politician, diplomat and historian #
André Siegfried André Siegfried (April 21, 1875 – March 28, 1959) was a French academic, geographer and political writer best known to English speakers for his commentaries on American, Canadian, and British politics. He was born in Le Havre, France, to Ju ...
, 1944–1959, historian and geographer #
Henry de Montherlant Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant (; 20 April 1895 – 21 September 1972) was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist. He was elected to the Académie française in 1960. Biography Born in Paris, a descendant ...
, 1960–1972, playwright, novelist and essayist #
Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss (, ; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthr ...
, 1973–2009, anthropologist #
Amin Maalouf Amin Maalouf (; ar, أمين معلوف; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese-born French"Amin ...
, elected 2011, novelist


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Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (sometimes mistakenly listed as "marquis de Racan", although he never held this title) (5 February 1589 – 21 January 1670) was a French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and (original) member of the Aca ...
, 1634–1670, poet #
François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais (13 August 1632, Paris - 6 September 1713, Paris) was a French ecclesiastic, grammarian, diplomat and poet in French, Spanish and Latin. He also translated Alphonsus Rodriguez's ''The Practice of Christian Pe ...
, 1670–1713, ecclesiastic and grammarian #
Bernard de la Monnoye Bernard de La Monnoye (15 June 1641, in Dijon – 15 October 1728) was a French lawyer, poet, philologue and critic, known chiefly for his carols ''Noei borguignon'' ('' Borguignon Christmas''). Biography La Monnoye began his studies in Jesuit ...
, 1713–1728, philologist and critic #
Michel Poncet de La Rivière Michel Poncet de la Rivière (11 July 1671 in Strasbourg, France – 2 August 1730 in Château d’Éventard, near Angers, France) was a French clergyman, preacher and, from 1706 to 1730, the 79th bishop of Angers. He was the son of Vincent-Mat ...
, 1728–1730, ecclesiastic #
Jacques Hardion Jacques Hardion (17 October 1686, Tours – 2 October 1766, Versailles) was a French historian, scholar and translator from ancient Greek. After studying at Tours, he earned a place as tutor to Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur. He was electe ...
. 1730–1766, historian #
Antoine Léonard Thomas Antoine is a French given name (from the Latin ''Antonius'' meaning 'highly praise-worthy') that is a variant of Danton, Titouan, D'Anton and Antonin. The name is used in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, West Greenland, Haiti, French Guiana ...
, 1766–1785, poet # Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert, 1785–1790, playwright #
Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Je ...
, 1803- excluded by ordinance 1816, politician; died 1824 #
Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald (2 October 1754 – 23 November 1840) was a French counter-revolutionary philosopher and politician. He is mainly remembered for developing a theoretical framework from which French sociology would ...
, 1816–1840, philosopher and publicist #
Jacques-François Ancelot Jacques-Arsène-Polycarpe-François Ancelot (9 January 1794 – 7 September 1854) was a French dramatist and litterateur. Biography Born in Le Havre, Ancelot became a clerk in the admiralty, and retained his position until the Revolution of ...
, 1841–1854, poet, novelist and playwright # Ernest Legouvé, 1855–1903, poet, novelist, playwright and essayist #
René Bazin René François Nicolas Marie Bazin (26 December 1853 – 20 July 1932) was a French novelist. Biography Born at Angers, he studied law in Paris, and on his return to Angers became Professor of Law in the Catholic university. In 1876, Bazin marr ...
, 1903–1932, novelist and essayist # Théodore Gosselin, 1932–1935, historian who wrote under the pen name of G. Lenotre #
Georges Duhamel Georges Duhamel (; ; 30 June 1884 – 13 April 1966) was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published '' Confession de minuit'', the first of a se ...
, 1935–1966, doctor, essayist, novelist, poet and playwright #
Maurice Druon Maurice Druon (23 April 1918 – 14 April 2009) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" (chairman) between 1985 and 1999. Life and career Born in Paris, France, Druon was the s ...
, 1966–2009, politician and novelist #
Danièle Sallenave Danièle Sallenave (born 28 October 1940) is a French novelist and journalist. In April 2011, she became a member of the Académie française. In 1980 Sallenave received the Prix Renaudot The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot () i ...
, elected 2011, novelist and journalist


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Pierre de Boissat Pierre de Boissat (1603 in Vienne, Isère – 28 March 1662) was a soldier, writer, poet and translator. Knight and Count Palatine, Boissat began his career in the military. He was one of the first members of the Académie française, and firs ...
, 1634–1662, soldier #
Antoine Furetière Antoine Furetière (28 December 161914 May 1688) was a French scholar, writer, and lexicographer, known best for his satirical novel ''Scarron's City Romance''. He was expelled from the Académie Française for seeking to publish his own French ...
, 1662–1685, poet, fabulist and novelist; excluded but not replaced, died in 1688 #
Jean de La Chapelle Jean de La Chapelle (24 October 1651 – 29 May 1723) was a French writer and dramatist. He was born at Bourges, France, was elected to the Académie française in 1688, and died in Paris. Biography Born into minor nobility, nephew of Nicolas ...
, 1688–1723, poet #
Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet, Abbot of Olivet (1 April 1682, Salins-les-Bains – 8 October 1768, Paris) was a French abbot, writer, grammarian and translator. He was elected the fourth occupant of Académie française An academy (Atti ...
, 1723–1768, ecclesiastic and grammarian #
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (; ; 30 September 17142 August or 3 August 1780) was a French philosopher and epistemologist, who studied in such areas as psychology and the philosophy of the mind. Biography He was born at Grenoble into a legal ...
, 1768–1780, ecclesiastic and philosopher #
Louis-Élisabeth de La Vergne de Tressan Louis-Élisabeth de la Vergne, comte de Tressan (4 November 1705, Le Mans - 31 October 1783, from a fall from a carriage en route to Saint-Leu-la-Forêt) was a French soldier, physician, scientist, medievalist and writer, best known for his adapta ...
, 1780–1783, poet and physicist #
Jean Sylvain Bailly Jean Sylvain Bailly (; 15 September 1736 – 12 November 1793) was a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution. He presided over the Tennis Court Oath, served as the mayor of Par ...
, 1783–1793, mathematician; guillotined #
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès (3 May 174820 June 1836), usually known as the Abbé Sieyès (), was a French Roman Catholic '' abbé'', clergyman, and political writer who was the chief political theorist of the French Revolution (1789–1799); he also ...
, 1803–1816, ecclesiastic, essayist and diplomat; excluded by ordinance, died 1836 # Gérard de Lally-Tollendal, 1816–1830, politician #
Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville (3 March 1782, Abbeville – 22 January 1870, Paris) was a French a man of letters and poet. He was elected the tenth occupant of Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine ...
, 1830–1870, poet #
Xavier Marmier Xavier Marmier (; 22 June 180812 October 1892) was a French author born in Pontarlier, in Doubs. He had a passion for travelling, and this he combined throughout his life with the production of literature. After journeying in Switzerland, Belgium ...
, 1870–1892, novelist and poet #
Henri de Bornier Henri, vicomte de Bornier (25 December 1825, Lunel – 28 January 1901, Paris) was a French poet and dramatist. Biography He came to Paris in 1845 with the object of studying law, but in that year he published a volume of verse, ''Les Premie ...
, 1893–1901, playwright and poet #
Edmond Rostand Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (, , ; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 play '' Cyrano de Bergerac''. Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with ...
, 1901–1918, playwright and poet #
Joseph Bédier Joseph Bédier (28 January 1864 – 29 August 1938) was a French writer and scholar and historian of medieval France. Biography Bédier was born in Paris, France, to Adolphe Bédier, a lawyer of Breton origin, and spent his childhood in Réunio ...
, 1920–1938, philologist #
Jérôme Tharaud Jérôme Tharaud (18 May 1874, Saint-Junien, Haute-Vienne – 28 January 1953, Varengeville-sur-Mer) was a French writer. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1906, and was elected the fifteenth occupant of Académie française An academy (Att ...
, 1938–1953, novelist #
Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (, , ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost creatives of the s ...
, 1955–1963, playwright, poet, choreographer, filmmaker and painter #
Jacques Rueff Jacques Léon Rueff (23 August 1896 – 23 April 1978) was a French economist and adviser to the French government. Life An influential French conservative and free market thinker, Rueff was born the son of a well known Parisian physician and s ...
, 1964–1978, economist and high bureaucrat # Jean Dutourd, 1978–2011, novelist # Michael Edwards, elected 2013, literary scholar


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# Claude Favre de Vaugelas, 1634–1650, grammarian #
Georges de Scudéry Georges de Scudéry (22 August 1601 – 14 May 1667), the elder brother of Madeleine de Scudéry, was a French novelist, dramatist and poet. Life Georges de Scudéry was born in Le Havre, in Normandy, whither his father had moved from Provence. H ...
, 1650–1667, novelist, playwright and poet # Philippe de Courcillon, 1667–1720, soldier, governor and diplomat #
Armand de Vignerot du Plessis Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (; 13 March 1696 – 8 August 1788), was a French soldier, diplomat and statesman. He joined the army and participated in three major wars. He eventually rose to the rank of Mars ...
, 1720–1788, soldier, libertine and politician #
François-Henri d'Harcourt François-Henri d'Harcourt (12 January 1726 – 22 July 1802) was a French general, duke and peer. He emigrated during the French Revolution, and he became a representative of Louis XVIII of France to the British government (1792–1800). Person ...
, 1788–1802, soldier #
Lucien Bonaparte Lucien Bonaparte, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano (born Luciano Buonaparte; 21 May 1775 – 29 June 1840), was French politician and diplomat of the French Revolution and the Consulate. He served as Minister of the Interior from 1799 to 1800 ...
, 1803–1816, politician. Excluded by ordinance. #
Louis-Simon Auger Louis-Simon Auger (29 December 1772, in Paris – 2 January 1829, in Paris) was a French journalist, literary critic and playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye ...
, 1816–1829, journalist and playwright # Charles-Guillaume Étienne, 1829–1845, poet and playwright #
Alfred de Vigny Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare. Biography Vigny was born in Loches (a town to which he never r ...
, 1845–1863, poet # Camille Doucet, 1865–1895, poet and playwright #
Charles Costa de Beauregard Charles-Albert-Marie Costa, Marquis de Beauregard (24 May 1835 – 15 February 1909) was a French historian and politician. He also fought in the Franco-Prussian War. His works include a trilogy on Charles Albert of Sardinia. Early life ...
, 1896–1909, historian and politician # Hippolyte Langlois, 1911–1912, soldier #
Émile Boutroux Étienne Émile Marie Boutroux (; 28 July 1845 – 22 November 1921) was an eminent 19th-century French philosopher of science and religion, and a historian of philosophy. He was a firm opponent of materialism in science. He was a spiritual phil ...
, 1912–1921, philosopher and historian of philosophy #
Pierre de Nolhac Pierre Girault de Nolhac (15 December 1859, Ambert – 31 January 1936, Paris), known as Pierre de Nolhac, was a French historian, art historian and poet. Biography After studying at Le Puy-en-Velay, in Rodez and Clermont-Ferrand, Pierre d ...
, 1922–1936, historian, art historian and poet #
Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente (5 May 1872 – 5 May 1959) was a French Cardinal (Catholicism), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Diocese of Le Mans, Archbishop of Le Mans from 1918 until his death, and was elevated to ...
, 1936–1959, ecclesiastic, historian and essayist # Henri Massis, 1960–1970, essayist, literary critic and literary historian #
Georges Izard Georges Izard (17 June 1903, in Abeilhan, Hérault – 20 September 1973, in Paris) was a French politician, lawyer, journalist and Essay, essayist. Biography Izard was named chief of staff to Charles Daniélou, then the minister of the merchant ...
, 1971–1973, politician, lawyer, journalist and essayist #
Robert Aron Robert Aron (1898–1975) was a French historian and writer who wrote a number of books on politics and European history. Early life and career Robert Aron was born in Le Vésinet on 25 May 1898 to an upper-class Jewish family from eastern Fran ...
, 1974–1975, historian and essayist # Maurice Rheims, 1976–2003, novelist and art historian #
Alain Robbe-Grillet Alain Robbe-Grillet (; 18 August 1922 – 18 February 2008) was a French writer and filmmaker. He was one of the figures most associated with the '' Nouveau Roman'' (new novel) trend of the 1960s, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and ...
, 2004–2008, novelist and filmmaker # François Weyergans, 2009–2019, novelist and filmmaker #
Pascal Ory Pascal Ory (born 31 July 1948) is a French historian. A student of René Rémond, he specialises in cultural and political history and has written on Fascism ever since his master's dissertation on the Greenshirts of Henri Dorgères. In the 1 ...
, elected 2021, historian


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Vincent Voiture Vincent Voiture (24 February 1597 – 26 May 1648), French poet and writer of prose, was the son of a rich wine merchant of Amiens. He was introduced by a schoolfellow, the count Claude d'Avaux, to Gaston, Duke of Orléans, and accompanied him ...
, 1634–1648, poet #
François Eudes de Mézeray François Eudes de Mézeray (1610 – 10 July 1683) was a French historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrat ...
, 1648–1683, lawyer #
Jean Barbier d'Aucour Jean Barbier d'Aucour (1 September 1641, Langres – 3 September 1694, Paris) was a French lawyer to the parliament of Paris, ardent Jansenist and satirist. He wrote anti-Jesuit pamphlet A pamphlet is an unbound book (that is, without a har ...
, 1683–1694, lawyer #
François de Clermont-Tonnerre François de Clermont-Tonnerre (1629 – 15 February 1701) was a French aristocrat and cleric. He served as the Count of Noyon, Bishop of Noyon, a pair de France and a member of the Conseil d'État. Early life Jean François de Clermont-Tonnerre ...
, 1694–1701, ecclesiastic #
Nicolas de Malézieu Nicolas de Malézieu (or Malézieux) (or Malesieu) (7 September 1650, in Paris – 4 March 1727, in Paris) was a French intellectual, Ancient Greek literature, Greek scholar and mathematician. Life and career Nicolas de Malézieu was a squire and ...
, 1701–1727, tutor and poet # Jean Bouhier, 1727–1746, magistrate and archaeologist # François-Marie Arouet dit Voltaire, 1746–1778, playwright, historian, philosopher and poet #
Jean-François Ducis Jean-François Ducis (; 22 August 173331 March 1816) was a French dramatist and adapter of Shakespeare. Biography Ducis was born in Versailles, one of ten children. His father, Pierre Ducis, originally from Savoy, was a linen draper at Versai ...
, 1778–1816, poet and playwright # Raymond Desèze, 1816–1828, lawyer #
Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante (June 10, 1782November 22, 1866) was a French statesman and historian. Associated with the center-left, he was described in France as the first man to call himself, "without any embarrassment ...
, 1828–1866, politician # Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry, 1867–1872, ecclesiastic and philosopher # René Taillandier, 1873–1879, politician # Maxime Du Camp, 1880–1894, essayist and novelist # Paul Bourget, 1894–1935, novelist, poet and playwright # Edmond Jaloux, 1936–1949, novelist, literary critic and literary historian #
Jean-Louis Vaudoyer Jean-Louis Vaudoyer (10 September 1883, in Le Plessis-Robinson, Hauts-de-Seine – 20 May 1963) was a French novelist, poet, essayist and art historian. He was also administrator general of the Comédie-Française The Comédie-Française () or ...
, 1950–1963, novelist, poet, essayist and art historian #
Marcel Brion Marcel Brion (; 21 November 1895 – 23 October 1984) was a French essayist, literary critic, novelist, and historian. Early life The son of a lawyer, Brion was classmates in Thiers with Marcel Pagnol and Albert Cohen. After completing his ...
, 1964–1984, novelist, art historian and essayist #
Michel Mohrt Michel Mohrt (28 April 1914 – 17 August 2011) was an editor, essayist, novelist and historian of French literature. Mohrt was born in Morlaix, Finistère. He was elected to the Académie française on 18 April 1985. Mohrt died at the age of ...
, 1985–2011, editor, essayist, novelist and literary historian # Dominique Bona, elected 2013, novelist


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Honorat de Porchères Laugier Honorat de Porchères Laugier (8 June 1572 – 26 October 1653Date given on the Académie française site. Léon de Berluc-Pérussis gives October 1655. His contemporaries state that he was born much earlier and have him dying as a centenarian or ...
, 1634–1653, poet # Paul Pellisson, 1653–1693, historian # François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon, 1693–1715, ecclesiastic and essayist #
Claude Gros de Boze Claude Gros de Boze (28 January 1680 – 10 September 1753) was a French scholar and numismatist. Biography De Boze was born at Lyon. Studying in Lyon and Paris, and settling in the latter around 1700, he gained the support of Nicolas-Joseph ...
, 1715–1753, erudite and numismatist # Louis de Bourbon Condé de Clermont, 1753–1771, ecclesiastic # Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy, 1771–1775, playwright and actor # Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort de Duras, 1775–1789, politician and soldier # Dominique Joseph Garat, 1803–1816, politician, lawyer and philosopher. Excluded by ordinance, he refused readmission in 1829, died 1833 # Louis-François de Bausset, 1816–1824, ecclesiastic and politician # Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen, 1824–1839, ecclesiastic # Louis-Mathieu Molé, 1840–1855, politician # Frédéric Alfred Pierre, comte de Falloux, 1856–1886, politician and historian # Octave Gréard, 1886–1904, high bureaucrat, literary historian and literary critic # Émile Gebhart, 1904–1908, art historian, literary historian and literary critic # Raymond Poincaré, 1909–1934, head of state, politician, lawyer and essayist # Jacques Bainville, 1935–1936, historian and journalist # Joseph de Pesquidoux, 1936–1946, novelist and essayist # Maurice Genevoix, 1946–1980, novelist # Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, 1981–2001, politician, essayist and novelist # François Cheng, elected 2002, poet, translator and novelist


Seat 35

# Henri Louis Habert de Montmor, 1634–1679, hotel-keeper # Louis de Lavau, 1679–1694, ecclesiastic # François Lefebvre de Caumartin, 1694–1733, ecclesiastic # François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif, 1733–1770, poet, musician and playwright # Jean-Armand de Bessuéjouls Roquelaure, 1771–1818, ecclesiastic # Georges Cuvier, 1818–1832, palaeontologist # André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin, 1832–1865, politician and lawyer # Alfred-Auguste Cuvillier-Fleury, 1866–1887, historian and literary critic # Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, 1888–1913, novelist, playwright and critic # Joseph Joffre, 1918–1931, politician and soldier # Maxime Weygand, 1931–1965, soldier # Louis Leprince-Ringuet, 1966–2000, physicist, telecommunications engineer, historian of science and essayist # Yves Pouliquen, 2001–2020, medical doctor # Antoine Compagnon, elected 2022, academic


Seat 36

# Marin Cureau de la Chambre, 1634–1669, medical doctor and philosopher # Pierre Cureau de La Chambre, 1670–1693, ecclesiastic # Jean de La Bruyère, 1693–1696, essayist and moralist # Claude Fleury, 1696–1723, ecclesiastic # Jacques Adam, 1723–1735, philologist # Joseph Séguy, 1736–1761, ecclesiastic # Cardinal de Rohan, Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan, 1761–1793, ecclesiastic, politician, philosopher and poet # Jean Devaines, 1803, state bureaucrat # Évariste de Parny, 1803–1814, poet # Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, 1815–1846, journalist, critic and playwright # Adolphe-Simonis Empis, 1847–1868, poet and playwright # Henri Auguste Barbier, 1869–1882, poet # Adolphe Perraud, 1882–1906, ecclesiastic # François-Désiré Mathieu, 1906–1908, ecclesiastic and historian # Louis Duchesne, 1910–1922, ecclesiastic, historian and philologist # Henri Brémond, 1923–1933, ecclesiastic, literary historian and literary critic # André Bellessort, 1935–1942, essayist, literary critic, historian and historian of literature # René Grousset, 1946–1952, art historian # Pierre Gaxotte, 1953–1982, historian and journalist # Jacques Soustelle, 1983–1990, Americanist, ethnologist, politician and essayist # Jean-François Deniau, 1990–2007, politician, essayist and novelist # Philippe Beaussant, 2007–2016, musicologist and novelist # Barbara Cassin, 2018–present, philologist and philosopher


Seat 37

# Daniel Hay du Chastelet de Chambon, 1635–1671, ecclesiastic and mathematician # Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, 1671–1704, ecclesiastic and historian # Melchior de Polignac, 1704–1741, ecclesiastic, politician, philologist and poet # Odet-Joseph Giry, 1741–1761, ecclesiastic # Charles Batteux, 1761–1780, ecclesiastic # Antoine-Marin Lemierre, 1780–1793, poet and playwright # Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de Préameneu, 1803–1825, politician and lawyer # Mathieu de Montmorency, 1825–1826, politician and diplomat # Alexandre Guiraud, 1826–1847, playwright, poet and novelist # Jean-Jacques Ampère, 1847–1864, historian of literature # Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol, 1865–1870, literary critic # Camille Rousset, 1871–1892, historian # Paul Thureau-Dangin, 1893–1913, historian # Pierre de La Gorce, 1914–1934, historian, magistrate and lawyer # Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie, 1934–1960, sailor and physicist # Eugène Tisserant, 1961–1972, ecclesiastic and philologist # Jean Daniélou, 1972–1974, ecclesiastic, theologian, historian and essayist # Ambroise-Marie Carré, 1975–2004, ecclesiastic # René Girard, 2005–2015, philosopher, literary critic # Michel Zink, elected 2017, medievalist, philologist and novelist


Seat 38

# Auger de Moléon de Granier, 1635–1636, possibly an ecclesiastic; expelled for theft; died 1650 # Balthazar Baro, 1636–1650, playwright and poet # Jean Doujat, 1650–1688, lawyer # Eusèbe Renaudot, 1688–1720, ecclesiastic # Henri-Emmanuel de Roquette, 1720–1725, ecclesiastic # Pierre de Pardaillan de Gondrin, 1725–1733, ecclesiastic # Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur, 1733–1774, economist and statistician # Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, 1775–1794, politician and magistrate; guillotined # François Andrieux, 1803–1833, lawyer, poet and playwright # Adolphe Thiers, 1833–1877, politician and historian # Henri Martin (historian), Henri Martin, 1878–1883, historian # Ferdinand de Lesseps, 1884–1894, diplomat # Anatole France, 1896–1924, novelist and poet # Paul Valéry, 1925–1945, poet, literary critic and essayist # Henri Mondor, 1946–1962, surgeon, physician, historian of literature and of science # Louis Armand, 1963–1971, mining engineer, bureaucrat and economist # Jean-Jacques Gautier, 1972–1986, drama critic, novelist, journalist and essayist # Jean-Louis Curtis, 1986–1995, novelist and essayist # François Jacob, 1996–2013, biologist # Marc Lambron, elected 2014, literary critic and writer


Seat 39

# Louis Giry, 1636–1665, lawyer # Claude Boyer, 1666–1698, ecclesiastic, playwright and poet # Charles-Claude Genest, 1698–1719, ecclesiastic # Jean-Baptiste Dubos, 1720–1742, ecclesiastic and historian # Jean-François Du Bellay du Resnel, 1742–1761, ecclesiastic # Bernard-Joseph Saurin, 1761–1781, lawyer and poet # Marquis de Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, 1782–1794, philosopher and mathematician # Gabriel Villar, 1803–1826, ecclesiastic # Charles-Marie de Féletz, 1826–1850, ecclesiastic # Désiré Nisard, 1850–1888, essayist # Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, 1888–1910, essayist, historian, literary critic and diplomat # Henri de Régnier, 1911–1936, poet, novelist and essayist # Jacques de Lacretelle, 1936–1985, novelist # Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, 1986–2006, journalist, essayist and novelist # Jean Clair, elected 2008, essayist and art historian


Seat 40

# Daniel de Priézac, 1639–1662, law professor # Michel Le Clerc, 1662–1691, lawyer # Jacques de Tourreil, 1692–1714, translator # Jean-Roland Malet, 1714–1736, economist and royal valet de chambre # Jean-François Boyer, 1736–1755, ecclesiastic # Nicolas Thyrel de Boismont, 1755–1786, ecclesiastic # Claude-Carloman de Rulhière, 1787–1791, diplomat, poet and historian # Pierre Jean George Cabanis, 1803–1808, medical doctor and physiologist # Antoine Destutt de Tracy, 1808–1836, philosopher # François Guizot, 1836–1874, politician and historian # Jean-Baptiste Dumas, 1875–1884, politician and chemist # Joseph Louis François Bertrand, 1884–1900, mathematician, historian of science # Marcellin Berthelot, 1900–1907, politician, chemist, essayist, historian of science # Francis Charmes, 1908–1916, diplomat and journalist # Jules Cambon, 1918–1935, diplomat, lawyer, senior civil servant # Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze, 1936–1955, admiral # Jacques Chastenet, 1956–1978, journalist, historian and diplomat # Georges Dumézil, 1978–1986, philologist and historian of civilisations # Pierre-Jean Rémy, 1988–2010, diplomat, novelist and essayist # Xavier Darcos, elected 2013, politician, scholar and civil servant


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Académie française: Les immortels
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