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The Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts of Lyon (French: Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon) is a French

learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an discipline (academia), academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and s ...

founded in 1700. Its founders included: *

Claude Brossette Claude Brossette, seigneur de Varennes d'Appetour (7 November 1671, Theizé, Lyonnais - 1743) was a French lawyer and writer. He was educated at the ''Collège de la Trinité'' in Lyon and joined the Jesuits before turning to law. In 1700 he fo ...

, lawyer, alderman of Lyons, and administrator of the

Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon was a hospital of historical significance situated on the west bank of the Rhone river, on the Presqu'île (the Peninsula between the Saône and Rhone rivers which run through the city center). It has been out of use since 201 ...

; *

Laurent Dugas Laurent Dugas is a former politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. He was a Verdun city councillor from 1985 to 2001 and a Montreal city councillor from 2002 to 2004, following Verdun's amalgamation into Montreal. His career in public life e ...

, President of the

Cour des monnaies The Cour des monnaies (, ''Currency Court'') was one of the sovereign courts of ''Ancien Régime'' France. It was set up in 1552. It and the other ''Ancien Régime'' tribunals were suppressed in 1791 after the French Revolution. Origins The reg ...

; * , future consulting physician of King

Louis XIV , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Vers ...

and member of the

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions ( epig ...

; * Antoine de Serre, adviser to the Cour des monnaies; * , naturalist; * Father Jean de Saint-Bonnet, professor at the

Collège-lycée Ampère The Collège-lycée Ampère is a famous school located in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon. History It was founded in 1519 by members of the Brotherhood of the Trinity. It was then known under the name of Collège de la Trinité. Under this name it ...

. * Thomas Bernard Fellon.

Notable Members

Joseph D'Aquin Joseph D'Aquin (14 January 1732 – 11 July 1815) was an early pioneer in the field of psychiatry. Biography Joseph D'Aquin (or Daquin) was born in 1732 in Chambéry, in the duchy of Savoy, part of the Kingdom of Sardinia. He attended me ...

Jean Pouilloux Professor Jean Pouilloux (born 31 October 1917 in Le Vert (Deux-Sèvres), France; died 23 May 1996 at Pimontin ( Rhone)) was a French hellenist archaeologist. He was educated at the ''École normale supérieure de la rue d'Ulm'' from 1939 to 1944 ...

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