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Definition of French academy
1. Noun. An honorary group of French writers and thinkers supported by the French government. "The French Academy sets standards for the use of the French language"
Lexicographical Neighbors of French Academy
Literary usage of French academy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne, Andrew Alphonsus MacErlean (1913)
"It therefore includes at present: (1) The french academy; (2) The Academy of Fine
Arts; (4) The Academy of Sciences; (5) The Academy of Moral and Political ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"The french academy alone— although, as we shall see further on, obliged for a
moment to bow before ... The french academy has not escaped, but is attacked ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1898)
"So the history of the french academy, which has rarely been composed of forty
... The truth is that by its constitution the french academy is incapable of ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... to go and study in the french academy at Paris under the French sculptor, Jean
Baptiste Pigalle. Here he made great progress, gained a silver medal, ..."
5. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"M. BERTRAND, the perpetual secretary of the french academy of Sciences, has been
appointed by M. Bonnet member of the International Metric Commission. ..."
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