The Montyon Prize (french: Prix Montyon) is a series of prizes awarded annually by the

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and the

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. They are endowed by the

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benefactor Baron de Montyon.

History

Prior to the start of the French Revolution, the Baron de Montyon established a series of prizes to be given away by the Académie Française, the Académie des Sciences, and the

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. These were abolished by the National Convention, but were taken up again when Baron de Montyon returned to France in 1815. When he died, he bequeathed a large sum of money for the perpetual endowment of four annual prizes. The endowed prizes were as follows: * Making an industrial process less unhealthy * Perfecting of any technical improvement in a mechanical process * Book which during the year rendered the greatest service to humanity * The "prix de vertu" for the most courageous act on the part of a poor Frenchman These prizes were considered by some to be a forerunner of the Nobel Prize.

List of winners

Jean Guénisset 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 * Jean ...

(1820) *

François-Xavier-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 ...

(1823) *

Antoine Germain Labarraque Antoine Germain Labarraque (28 March 1777 – 9 December 1850)Maurice Bouvet. Les grands pharmaciens: Labarraque (1777-1850)' (Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 1950, Volume 38, no. 128, pp. 97-107). was a French chemist and pharmacist, notable ...

(1825) * Friedrich Sertürner (1831) * Alexis de Tocqueville (1835) * Philippe Ricord (1842) * Jeanne Jugan (1845) * Jules Verne *

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 ...

(1859) * Louis Melsens (1865) *

Joséphine Colomb Joséphine Colomb (née, Bouchet; 4 February 1833 – 17 September 1892) was a 19th-century French children's writer, lyricist, and translator who signed her works, Mme J. Colomb or Mme Louis-Casimir Colomb. She was a recipient of the Montyon Prize ...

(1875) * Mary Mapes Dodge (1876) * Axel Key (1878) * Hector Malot (1878) * George Henry Corliss (1879) * Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1882) * Victor André Cornil 1886 * Louis Fréchette * Charles Thomas Jackson * Jean-Henri Fabre * Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (1887) * Claire Julie de Nanteuil (1888) * Claire Julie de Nanteuil (1890) * François Marie Galliot (1895) * Juliette Heuzey (1897) *

Ludovic de Contenson Ludovic de Contenson (born 28 February 1861 in Lyon – died 1935) was a French geographer and 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 co ...

(1902). * Laure Conan (1903) * Charles Nicolle (1909, 1912, 1914) *

Edward Tuck Edward Tuck (August 24, 1842 – April 30, 1938) was an American banker, diplomat, and philanthropist. He is known for funding the establishment of the Tuck School of Business at his alma mater, Dartmouth College. The son of Amos Tuck, a found ...

and Julia Stell (1916) *

Victor Babeș Victor Babeș (; 28 July 1854 in Vienna – 19 October 1926 in Bucharest) was a Romanian physician, bacteriologist, academician and professor. One of the founders of modern microbiology, Victor Babeș is author of one of the first treatises of ba ...

(1924) *

Armand Praviel Armand refer to: People * Armand (name), list of people with this name *Armand (photographer) (1901–1963), Armenian photographer *Armand (singer) (1946–2015), Dutch protest singer *Sean Armand (born 1991), American basketball player *Armand, ...

(1925)

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Suzanne Lavaud __NOTOC__ Suzanne Lavaud (August 8, 1903 – January 14, 1996) was a French librarian. The first deaf person in France to obtain a Doctor of Letters, she is best known for her analysis of the writing of Marie Lenéru. Lavaud was born in Puy-e ...

(1932) * Louise Thuliez (1935) * Valentine Thomson (1937) *

Germaine Acremant Germaine Acremant (13 June 1889 - 24 August 1986) was a French novelist and playwright. Her best-known work is her first novel ''Ces dames aux chapeaux verts'' (These ladies with green hats), a satire of provincial life published in 1921. The Acad ...

(1940) *

Ivan Đaja Ivan Đaja ( sr-Cyrl, Иван Ђаја, french: Jean Giaja; 21 July 1884 – 1 October 1957) was a Serbian biologist, physiologist, author and philosopher. He was founder of the Chair for physiology at the Serbian Institute for Physiology, rec ...

(1946) *

Daniel Dugué Daniel Dugué was a French mathematician specializing in probability and statistics. He was born on 22 September 1912 in Saint-Louis in Senegal and died on 10 September 1987 in Paris, France. Biography After finishing high-school studies in ...

(1947) * André Giroux (1949) *

Alix André Alix André (née, Caseneuve; 17 April 1909 – 6 July 2000) was a French romance novelist. Between 1942 and 1980, she wrote dozens of books, some of which were translated into several other languages or reprinted episodically in women's magazines ...

(1951) *

Nicolas Minorsky Nicolas Minorsky (born Nikolai Fyodorovich Minorsky, russian: Николай Федорович Минорский; , Korcheva, Russian Empire – 31 July 1970, Italy) was a Russian American control theory mathematician, engineer. and appli ...

(1955) * Kitty Ponse *

Antoine de La Garanderie Antoine de La Garanderie (22 March 1920 – 27 June 2010) was a French educator A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice ...

(1970) *

Gaston Bouthoul Gaston is a masculine given name of French origin and a surname. The name "Gaston" may refer to: People First name * Gaston I, Count of Foix (1287–1315) *Gaston II, Count of Foix (1308–1343) * Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331–1391) *Gaston ...

(1971) * Bertrand de Margerie (1972) * Alexandre Jollien (2000) * Alberte van Herwynen (2001) *

Charles-Nicolas Peaucellier Charles-Nicolas Peaucellier (16 June 1832 – 4 October 1919) was a French engineer who graduated from the ''École polytechnique''. He made a career in the French army and was promoted to ''général de division'' in 1888. He is best known ...

René Guitton René (''born again'' or ''reborn'' in French) is a common first name in French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and German-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus. René is the masculine form of the name (Renée being the feminine ...

(2002) * Michèle-Irène Brudny (2003) * Jacques Julliard (2004) * Joël Bouessée (2004) *

Henri Hude 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 Mont ...

(2005) * Renaud Girard (2006) * Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin (2007) * Jean-François Mattéi (2008) * Myriam Revault D'Allonnes (2009) *

William Marx William Marx (born 1966 in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon) is a French writer and researcher into literature. He is a researcher at the Collège de France, where he is professor of Comparative Literature. In 2010 he received the Montyon Prize of the A ...

(2010) * Stéphane Chauvier (2011) * Bérénice Levet (2012) *

Anca Vasiliu ANCA or Anca may refer to: * Anca (name), Romanian female first name * Áncá language * Ançã (Cantanhede), civil parish in Portugal * Ançã, town in Portugal Organization * Australian Nature Conservation Agency, now Environment Australia * ...

(2013) * Fabrice Wilhelm (2014) * Nathalie Heinich (2015) * Hervé Gaymard (2016) * Denis Lacorne (2017) *

Gilles Lipovetsky Gilles Lipovetsky (born September 24, 1944) is a French philosopher, writer, and sociologist, professor at Stendhal University in Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Life and career Lipovetsky was born in Millau in 1944. He studied phi ...

(2018) *

Isabelle de Lamberterie Isabel is a female name of Spanish origin. Isabelle is a name that is similar, but it is of French origin. It originates as the medieval Spanish form of ''Elisabeth'' (ultimately Hebrew ''Elisheva''), Arising in the 12th century, it became popula ...

(2019) * Isabelle Mordant (2020) *

Jean Seidengart 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 ...

(2021) * Neil MacGregor (2022)

External links

Catholic encyclopedia entry

References

{{Reflist Académie Française awards Awards of the French Academy of Sciences