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    The Institut de France (French for 'Institute of France'; French: [ɛ̃stity də fʁɑ̃s]) is a French learned society, grouping five académies, including...
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  • The Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information), previously Institut géographique...
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    (President of the academy), it is one of the five Academies of the Institut de France. The Academy of Sciences traces its origin to Colbert's plan to create...
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    Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution, it was restored as a division of the Institut de France in 1803 by Napoleon Bonaparte. It is the...
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    Revolution and rebuilt in the 1870s. The château is owned by the Institut de France, which received it from Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale. A historic...
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    the five academies of the Institut de France. The current president of the academy (2021) is Alain-Charles Perrot, a French architect. The academy was...
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  • school of economic thought that was centered on the Collège de France and the Institut de France. The Journal des Économistes was instrumental in promulgating...
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  • The Académie française and the Institut de France are important linguistic and artistic institutions in France, and French television features shows on...
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    Yoccoz Jean Yoyotte Don Zagier Institut de France Raymond Couvègnes "Les membres de Couperin", Couperin.org (in French), archived from the original on...
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    the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in 1795 by Napoleon and still held by the Institut de France in Paris. Leonardo biographer Walter Isaacson has expressed the belief...
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