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The Prix Bordin is a series of prizes awarded annually by each of the five institutions making up the
Institut Français The Institut Français (French capitalization, Institut français; "French institute") is a French public industrial and commercial organization (EPIC). Started in 1907 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for promoting French, francophone as ...
since 1835.


History

The prize was created by Charles-Laurent Bordin, a notary in Paris from 1794 to 1820, who bequeathed 12,000 Francs to the
Institut de France The (; ) is a French learned society, grouping five , including the Académie Française. It was established in 1795 at the direction of the National Convention. Located on the Quai de Conti in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the institute m ...
in his testament dated April 7, 1835, for the foundation of an annual prize to be given to each of the five: * the
Académie Française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...
, in order to "encourage high literature"; the prize was given irregularly until 1988 * 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 ...
* the
French Academy of Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific me ...
. The awarding of the prize is linked with a contest organized by the Academy. * the
Académie des Sciences morales et politiques 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 philosophy, f ...
: the biennial prize is awarded to "works treating upon subjects relating to the public interest, to the wellbeing of humanity, to the progress of science and to national honor (of France)." * the
Académie des Beaux-Arts 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 philosophy, ...
: to reward works on painting, sculpture, architecture, engraving or music.


Laureates of the

Académie Française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...


From 1857 to 1899

* 1857: Eugène Rosseeuw Saint-Hilaire for ''Histoire d'Espagne'' * 1859:
Nicolas Eugène Géruzez Nicolas Eugène Géruzez (6 January 1799 – 29 May 1865), was a French critic. He was born at Reims. He was assistant professor at the Sorbonne, and in 1852 he became secretary to the faculty of literature. His works include a ''Histoire de ...
for ''Histoire de la littérature française depuis ses origines jusqu'à la Révolution et pendant la Révolution'' * 1860: Louis Ratisbonne for ''Translation in verse of Dante'' * 1861: André Sayous for ''Histoire de la littérature française à l'étranger pendant le XVIIIe siècle'' * 1862: **
Léon Halévy Léon Halévy (4 January 1802 – 2 September 1883) was a French civil servant, historian, and dramatist. Early life Born to a Jewish family in Paris, Léon was the son of the writer and chazzan Élie Halévy and the younger brother of the ...
for his translation into verse of Greek tragedies **
Auguste Lacaussade Auguste Lacaussade (8 February 1815 – 31 July 1897) was a French poet who also worked as a translator and a librarian. Auguste Lacaussade is a French mulatto born in Saint-Denis (Bourbon Island). Some of his works are on the theme of Maroons ...
for ''
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'' * 1863: Ferdinand Béchard for ''Droit municipal dans l'antiquité et Droit municipal au moyen âge'' * 1865: ** Jules Bonnet for ''Récits du XVIe siècle, Aonio Paleario, étude sur la Réforme en Italie'' and ''Olympia Morata'' ** Eugène Fallex for his translation into verse of
Aristophanes Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme In Ancient Greece, a deme or ( grc, δῆμος, plural: demoi, δημοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states ...
** Édélestand Pontas du Méril for ''Histoire de la comédie'' ** Eugène Rosseeuw Saint-Hilaire for ''Histoire d'Espagne'' * 1866: Alphonse Dantier for ''Les monastères bénédictins d'Italie'' * 1867: Elme-Marie Caro for ''La philosophie de Gœthe'' * 1868:
Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles Emmanuel-Henri-Victurnien, marquis de Noailles (September 15, 1830 – February 16, 1909), was a French diplomat, historian and literary critic, the second son of Paul de Noailles. He was the second son of Paul de Noailles. The marquis d ...
for ''Henri de Valois'' and ''la Pologne en 1572'' * 1869:
Alexis Chassang Alexis Chassang (; 2 April 1827 in Bourg-la-Reine – 8 March 1888 in Bourg-la-Reine) was a French linguist and translator. In 1849 he received his agrégation in letters, and in 1852, his doctorate. Afterwards, he served as a professor of rhet ...
for ''Le Spiritualisme et l’Idéal dans la poésie des Grecs'' * 1870: ** Guillaume-Alfred Heinrich for ''Histoire de la littérature allemande'' ** Constant Martha for ''Poème de Lucrèce'' * 1871:
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for ''La philosophie de Platon'' * 1872:
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for ''Histoire de Marie Stuart'' * 1873:
Georges Perrot Georges Perrot (12 November 1832 – 30 June 1914) was a French archaeologist. He taught at the Sorbonne from 1875 and was director of the École Normale Supérieure from 1888 to 1902. In 1874 he was elected to the Academie des Inscriptions e ...
for ''L’éloquence politique et judiciaire à Athènes'' * 1874: ** Adolphe Bossert for ''La littérature allemande au moyen âge et les origines de l’épopée germanique'', ''Goethe, ses précurseurs et ses contemporains'' and ''Goethe et Schiller'' ** Jules Sauzay for ''Histoire de la persécution révolutionnaire dans le département du Doubs de 1789 à 1801'' * 1875: Gustave Desnoiresterres for ''Voltaire et la société française au XVIIIe siècle'' * 1876: **
Ernest Daudet Louis-Marie Ernest Daudet (; 31 May 1837 – 21 August 1921) was a French journalist, novelist and historian. Prolific in several genres, Daudet began his career writing for magazines and provincial newspapers all over France. His younger brothe ...
for ''Histoire du ministère de M. de Martignac, sa vie politique et les dernières années de la Restauration'' ** Jules Levallois for ''Corneille inconnu'' * 1877: François-Régie Chantelauze for ''Marie Stuart, son procès et son exécution'' * 1878: **
Arthur Gobineau Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (; 14 July 1816 – 13 October 1882) was a French aristocrat who is best known for helping to legitimise racism by the use of scientific racist theory and "racial demography", and for developing the theory of the Ary ...
for ''La Renaissance'' ** Gustave Merlet for ''Tableau de la littérature française de 1800-1815'' * 1879: ** Ernest Lichtenberger for ''Étude sur les poésies lyriques de Goethe'' **
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for ''Histoire littéraire de l’Alsace'' * 1880:
Henri Baudrillart Henri Joseph Léon Baudrillart (1821–1892) was a French economist. Life He was born in Paris on 28 November 1821. His father, Jacques Joseph (1774-1832), was a distinguished writer on forestry, and was for many years in the service of the Fr ...
for ''Histoire du luxe privé et public depuis l’antiquité jusqu’à nos jours'' * 1881: ** (the widow of) Paul Albert **
Émile Gebhart Émile Gebhart (19 July 1839, Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle – 22 April 1908, Paris) was a French academic and writer, He was elected to the Académie Française (fauteuil 34) in 1905. He was attacked by Radicals for his religious and patriotic i ...
for ''Les origines de la Renaissance'' **
Julian Klaczko Julian Klaczko (6 November 1825, Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius) – 26 November 1906, Kraków) was a Polish author, proficient in Hebrew, Polish, French, and German. He was born Jehuda Lejb into a wealthy Jewish family. At the age of 17 he published a ...
for ''Causeries florentines'' * 1882: ** Georges Pallain for ''Correspondance inédite du prince de Talleyrand et du roi Louis XVIII pendant le Congrès de Vienne'' ** Albert Vandal for ''Louis XV et Élisabeth de Russie'' * 1883:
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 ...
for ''Le roman naturaliste'' and ''Études critiques sur l’histoire de la littérature française'' * 1884: **
James Darmesteter James Darmesteter (28 March 184919 October 1894) was a French author, orientalist, and antiquarian. Biography He was born of Jewish parents at Château-Salins, in Lorraine. The family name had originated in their earlier home of Darmstadt. He was ...
''Essais orientaux'' ** Georges Duruy ''Le cardinal Carlo Carafa'' * 1885: ** Prince Emmanuel de Broglie for ''Fénelon à Cambrai, d’après sa correspondance (1699-1715)'' ** François Laouënan for ''Le brahmanisme et ses rapports avec le judaïsme'', ''le judaïsme et le christianisme'' * 1886: ** Charles Bénard ''La philosophie ancienne'' ** Charles de Baillon ''Henriette-Anne d’Angleterre, duchesse d’Orléans'' ** Gustave-Armand-Henri de Reiset for ''Modes et usages au temps de Marie-Antoinette'' * 1887: ** Émile Bérard-Varagnac for ''Portraits littéraires'' ** Jacques Denis for ''La Comédie grecque'' * 1888: ** Prince Georges Bibesco for ''Au Mexique, 1862. Combats et retraite des Six Mille'' **
Stéphen Liégeard Stéphen François Emile Liégeard (29 March 1830 – 29 December 1925) was a French lawyer, administrator, deputy, writer and poet. He gave the name "Côte d'Azur" ( Azure Coast) to the French Riviera. Life Early years (1830–67) Stéphen Fran ...
''La côte d’Azur'' ** René Millet ''La France provinciale'' * 1889: Charles Ravaisson-Mollien ''Les manuscrits de Léonard de Vinci'' * 1890: ** Antonin Fabre for Chapelain et nos deux premières Académies ** Alfred Marchand for ''Les poètes lyriques de l’Autriche'' **
Maurice Paléologue Maurice Paléologue (13 January 1859 – 23 November 1944) was a French diplomat, historian, and essayist. As the French ambassador to Russia (1914-1917), he supported the Russian mobilization against Germany that led to World War I and likewise p ...
for ''Vauvenargues'' ** Gabriel Sarrazin for ''La Renaissance de la poésie anglaise (1798-1889)'' and ''les poètes modernes de l’Angleterre'' ** Émile Simond for ''Histoire du 28e régiment de ligne'' * 1891: ** Georges Bengesco for ''Voltaire'' ** Auguste Couat ''Aristophane et l’ancienne comédie attique'' **
Théodore Reinach Théodore Reinach (3 July 186028 October 1928) was a French archaeologist, mathematician, lawyer, papyrologist, philologist, epigrapher, historian, numismatist, musicologist, professor, and politician. Academic career Educated at the Lycée Con ...
''Mithridate Eupator, roi de Pont'' * 1892: ** Charles Ravaisson-Mollien ''Les manuscrits de Léonard de Vinci'' ** Eugène Titeux for ''Histoire de la Maison militaire du Roy, de 1814 à 1830'' * 1893: ** Viscountess Bardonnet for ''Mémoires et souvenirs du baron Hyde de Neuville'' ** Charles Dardier for ''Paul Rabaut, ses lettres à Antoine Court (1739-1755)'' and ''Paul Rabaut, ses lettres à divers (1744-1794)'' ** Charles de Moüy ''L’ambassade du duc de Créqui (1662-1665)'' ** Charles Lenthéric for ''Le Rhône, histoire d’un fleuve'' * 1894: ** Victor Cucheval for ''Histoire de l’éloquence romaine depuis la mort de Cicéron jusqu’à l’avènement de l’empereur Hadrien'' ** Antoine Guillois for ''Le salon de Madame Helvétius. Cabanis et les idéologues'' ** Hippolyte Parigot for ''Le théâtre d’hier'' ** Auguste Rey for ''Les cahiers de Saint-Prix'' ** Léopold Sudre for ''Les sources du roman de Renart'' * 1895: ** Clément de La Jonquière for ''L’armée à l’Académie'' ** Théophile Funck-Brentano for ''L’homme et sa destinée'' ** Jean-Jules Jusserand for ''Histoire littéraire du peuple anglais, des origines à la Renaissance'' **
Théodore Gosselin Louis Léon Théodore Gosselin (7 October 1855, in Richemont, Moselle – 7 February 1935) was a French historian and playwright who wrote under the pen name G. Lenotre. He wrote articles in publications such as ''Le Figaro'', '' Revue des de ...
for ''Paris révolutionnaire'' * 1896: ** Ferdinand Belin for ''Histoire de l’ancienne université de Provence : Aix'' ** Robert de la Sizeranne for ''La peinture anglaise contemporaine'' * 1897: **
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 Cha ...
for ''La Vie et l’Art'' **
Francis de Pressensé Francis Charles Dehault de Pressensé (September 30, 1853, Paris – January 19, 1914, Paris) was a French politician and journalist. Biography He was the son of Protestant religious leader Edmond de Pressensé. He was educated at the Lyceé Bona ...
for ''Le Cardinal Manning'' ** Eugène Ritter for ''La famille et la jeunesse de Rousseau'' * 1898: ** Maurice de Fleury for ''Introduction à la médecine de l’esprit'' ** Henri Druon for ''Histoire de l’éducation des princes dans la Maison des Bourbons de France'' **
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 ...
for ''L’Allemagne religieuse : le Protestantisme'' * 1899: ** Henry Lapauze for ''Les pastels de De La Tour à Saint-Quentin'' ** Constantin Lecigne for ''Brizeux, sa vie et ses œuvres''


From 1900 to 1939

* 1900: ** Count Théodore Paul Émile Ducos for ''La mère du duc d’Enghien (1750-1822)'' ** Émile Dupré-Lasale for ''Michel de l’Hospital (1555-1960)'' ** Henri Lichtenberger for ''Richard Wagner, poète et penseur'' ** Louis Maigron for ''Le Roman historique à l'époque romantique'' ** Jean-Baptiste Mispoulet for ''La vie parlementaire à Rome sous la République'' * 1901: **
Henry Fouquier Jacques François Henry Fouquier, (1 September 1838 – 25 December 1901) was a French journalist, writer, playwright and politician. He wrote for many newspapers and journals, often pseudonymously but with a style recognisably his own. He was best ...
for ''Philosophie parisienne'' **
Victor Giraud The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * Victor (1951 film), ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * Victor (1993 film), ...
for ''Essais sur Taine, son œuvre et son influence'' ** Georges Le Bidois for ''La vie dans la tragédie de Racine'' * 1902: ** André Bellessort ''La société japonaise'' **
André le Breton André François le Breton (2 September 1708 – 5 October 1779) was a French publisher. He was one of the four publishers of the ''Encyclopédie'' of Diderot and d'Alembert, along with Michel-Antoine David, Laurent Durand, and Antoine-Claude ...
for ''Le roman français au XIXe siècle avant Balzac'' ** Édouard Ruel for ''Du sentiment artistique dans la morale de Montaigne'' * 1903: **
Paul Allard Paul Allard (15 September 1841 – 4 December 1916) was a French archaeologist and historian. Biography He was admitted to the bar and practised law for a short time in his native city, where he became a judge of the civil court. His literary ...
for ''Julien l’Apostat'' ** Ignác Kont for ''Étude sur l’influence de la littérature française en Hongrie (1772-1896)'' ** Adolphe Liéby for ''Étude sur le théâtre de Marie Joseph Chénier'' ** Francisque Vial for ''L’enseignement secondaire et la démocratie'' * 1904: ** Victor de Swarte for ''Descartes directeur spirituel'' ** Paul Gautier for ''Madame de Staël et Napoléon'' ** Paul et Victor Glachant for ''Essai critique sur le théâtre de Victor Hugo'' ** Gustave Michaut for ''Sainte-Beuve avant les lundis'' * 1905: ** Charles ab der Halden for ''Études de littérature canadienne française'' ** Adolphe Bossert for ''Schopenhauer'' ** René Canat for ''Du sentiment de la solitude morale chez les romantiques et les parnassiens'' ** Émile Dard for ''Le général Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803)'' ** Paul Decharme for ''La critique des traditions religieuses chez les Grecs, des origines au temps de Plutarque'' * 1906: ** Alfred Barbeau for ''Une ville d’eaux anglaise au XVIIIe siècle'' ** Philippe Godet for ''Madame de Charrière et ses amis (1740-1805)'' **
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 ...
for ''Madame Récamier et ses amis'' ** Samuel Rocheblave for ''George Sand et sa fille d’après leur correspondance inédite'' * 1907: ** Jean Baruzi for ''Leibniz et l’organisation religieuse de la terre'' ** Marc Citoleux for ''La poésie philosophique au XIXe siècle : Lamartine. Mme Ackermann'' ** Camille Latteille for ''Joseph de Maistre et la Papauté'' **
Julien Luchaire Julien may refer to: People * Julien (given name) * Julien (surname) Music * ''Julien'' (opera), a 1913 poème lyrique by Gustave Charpentier * ''Julien'' (album), by Dalida, 1973 * "Julien" (song), by Carly Rae Jepsen, 2019 Places Un ...
for ''Essai sur l'évolution intellectuelle de l'Italie, de 1815 à 1830'' * 1908: ** Albert Cassagne for ''La théorie de l’art pour l’art'' **
Angelo De Gubernatis Count Angelo De Gubernatis (1840–26 February 1913), Italian man of letters, was born in Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature fourteen times. Life In 1862 he wa ...
for ''La poésie amoureuse de la Renaissance italienne'' ** Louis Delaruelle for ''Guillaume Budé'' ** Guillaume Hüszar for ''Molière et l’Espagne'' ** Clodius Piat for ''Les philosophes grecs : Socrate, Aristote, Platon'' * 1909: ** Jules Charrier for ''Claude Fauchet, évêque constitutionnel du Calvados (1744-1793)'' ** Georges Dalmeyda for ''Goethe et le drame antique'' ** René Radouant for ''Guillaume du Vair (1556-1596)'' * 1910: ** Joseph Dedieu for ''Montesquieu et la tradition politique anglaise en France'' ** Charles Drouhet for ''Le poète François Mainard (1583-1646)'' ** Gabriel Maugain for ''Étude sur l’évolution intellectuelle de l’Italie de 1657 à 1750 environ'' ** François Vézinet for ''Molière, Florian et la littérature espagnole'' * 1911: **
Victor Giraud The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * Victor (1951 film), ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * Victor (1993 film), ...
for ''Blaise Pascal. L’homme, l’œuvre, l’influence'' **
Paul Hazard Paul Gustave Marie Camille Hazard (; 30 August 1878, in Noordpeene, Nord – 13 April 1944, in Paris), was a French professor and historian of ideas. Biography Hazard was the son of a school teacher. Starting in 1900, he attended the École Norm ...
for ''La Révolution française et les lettres italiennes'' ** Philippe Millet for ''La crise anglaise'' ** Napoléon-Maurice Bernardin for ''L’abbé Frifillis'' **
Alfred Jeanroy Alfred Jeanroy (5 July 1859 – 13 March 1953) was a French linguist. Jeanroy was a leading scholar studying troubadour A troubadour (, ; oc, trobador ) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Age ...
for ''Giosué Carducci, l’homme et le poète'' ** Hippolyte Loiseau for ''L’évolution morale de Goethe. Les années de libre formation (1749-1794)'' **
Émile Magne Émile Magne (29 July 1877 – 28 March 1953) was a French writer, critic, historian of literature and art. Biography Born in Dax, Émile Magne attended the lycée of Bordeaux, then was a student at the Sorbonne. In 1898 he published a first stu ...
for ''Voiture et les origines de l’hôtel de Rambouillet (1597-1635)'' ** Auguste Rochette for ''L’Alexandrin chez Victor Hugo'' * 1913: ** Louis-Frédéric Choisy for ''Alfred Tennyson, son spiritualisme, sa personnalité morale'' ** Joseph Drouet for ''L’abbé de Saint-Pierre, l’homme et l’œuvre'' **
Jean Lucas-Dubreton Jean-Marie Lucas de Peslouan, better known by his pseudonym Jean Lucas-Dubreton (23 September 1883 – 9 September 1972) was a French historian and biographer. He was born in Grenoble. He died in Triel-sur-Seine. Works * ''Samuel Pepys: a portrai ...
for ''La disgrâce de Nicolas Machiavel. Florence (1469-1527)'' ** Charles Régismanset for ''Le bienfaiteur de la ville'' * 1914: ** Joseph-Émile Dresch for ''Le roman social en Allemagne (1850-1900)'' ** Christian Maréchal for ''La famille de La Mennais sous l’ancien Régime et la Révolution'' ** Jean Nesmy for ''Le roman de la forêt'' **
Henry Prunières Henry Prunières (24 May 1886, in Paris – 11 April 1942, in Nanterre) was a French musicologist, and international proponent of contemporary art in various forms, including music, dance and painting. He occupies an important place in the art wor ...
for ''L’opéra italien en France avant Lulli'' * 1916: ** Mr. Alline ** Ernest-Amédée de Renty ** François Gébelin ** Marcel Godet for ''La Congrégation de Montaigu'' ** Amédée Guiard ** Joachim Merlant ** Paul Peyre for ''Du droit et du devoir de l’éducation'' ** André Ruplinger for ''Charles Bordes, membre de l'Académie de Lyon (1711-1781)'' * 1917: ** Louis Cario for ''Annette, un été au pays basque'' ** Marcel Dupont for ''En campagne'' **
Pompiliu Eliade Pompiliu Eliade (April 13, 1869 – May 24, 1914) was a Romanian literary critic and historian. Life Born in Bucharest, he attended primary and high school in his native city, followed by the University of Bucharest, where he obtained a liter ...
for ''La Roumanie au XIXe siècle'' ** René La Bruyère for ''Deux années de guerre navale'' ** Léon Lahovary for ''Les Lauriers et les Glaives'' * 1918: ** Édouard Guyot for ''L’Angleterre (sa politique intérieure)'' ** Albert Monod for ''De Pascal à Châteaubriand'' ** Léon Rosenthal for ''Du romantisme au réalisme'' **
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for ''Ossian en France'' * 1919: ** Albert Chérel for ''Fénelon au XVIIIe siècle en France'' ** Émile Ripert for ''La Renaissance provençale (1800-1860)'' * 1920: ** Albert Autin for ''La maison en deuil'' ** A. Dutil for ''Les chars d’assaut'' ** Casimir-Alexandre Fusil for ''La poésie scientifique de 1750 à nos jours'' ** Édouard Guyot for ''H.-G. Wells'' ** Raymonde Machard for ''Tu enfanteras'' ** Jean Suberville for ''Le théâtre d’Edmond Rostand'' ** Bénjamin Vallotton for ''Ceux de Barivier'' * 1921: ** Louis-Frédéric Choisy for ''Sainte-Beuve, l’homme et le poète'' **
Pierre de Labriolle Pierre Champagne de Labriolle (18 June 1874 – 28 December 1940) was a French philologist, Latinist and historian. Biography Pierre Champagne de Labriolle, conventionally known as Pierre de Labriolle, was born in Asnières-sur-Seine, Île-de-Fra ...
for ''Histoire de la littérature latine chrétienne'' ** Léon Deffoux and Émile Zavie for ''Le groupe de Médan'' **
Ernest Delahaye Ernest Delahaye (1853–1930) was a French writer and essayist. He maintained a long and close friendship with Arthur Rimbaud whom he first met in April 1865 when they attended school together in Charleville in the Ardennes region of France. He a ...
for ''Verlaine'' ** L. Letellier for ''Louis Bouilhet, sa vie, ses œuvres'' ** Henri Morice for ''La poésie de Sully-Prud’homme'' * 1922: ** Clara de Longworth-Chambrun ''Giovanni Florio'' ** Henri Girard ''Un bourgeois dilettante à l’époque contemporaine, Émile Deschamps'' ** Gonzague Truc ''Tibériade'' ** Philippe Van Tieghem ''La poésie de la nuit'' et ''des tombeaux en Europe au XVIIIe siècle'' **
Maurice Vaussard Maurice Vaussard (8 September 1888 – 24 February 1978) was a 20th-century French writer and essayist. Author of numerous historical and political essays, a specialist in Italian history and the Christian Democrats, Maurice Vaussard was editor ...
''L’intelligence catholique dans l’Italie au XXe siècle'' * 1923: ** Jacques Arnavon ''La représentation de la Comédie classique. Notes sur l’interprétation de Molière'' ** Alexandre Masseron ''Les énigmes de la Divine Comédie'' ** Joseph Segond ''L'Imagination'' ** Édouard Thamiry ''De l’influence'' et ''La méthode d’influence de Saint-François-de-Sales'' * 1924: ** Émile Dermenghem ''Joseph de Maistre mystique'' ** René Galland ''Georges Meredith (1828-1878)'' ** Jean Larat ''La tradition et l’exotisme dans l’œuvre de Charles Nodier'' ** Maurice Legendre ''Portrait de l’Espagne'' ** Charles Loiseau ''Politique romaine et sentiment français'' ** Frederick Charles Roe ''Taine et l’Angleterre'' * 1925: ** Adolphe Coster ''Luis de Léon'' ** Maurice de Fleury ''L’Angoisse humaine'' ** Camille Looten for ''Shakespeare et la religion'' ** Arthur Lytton Sells for ''Les sources françaises de Goldsmith'' ** Paul Truffau for ''Raoul de Cambrai'' * 1926: ** Ernest de Ganay for ''Chantilly au XVIIIe siècle'' ** Cornelis Kramer for ''André Chénier et la poésie parnassienne'' ** Maurice Levaillant for ''Splendeurs et misères de M. de Chateaubriand'' ** Émile Pons for ''Swift, les années de jeunesse'' and ''le conte du tonneau" **
Albert Valentin Albert Valentin (1908–1968) was a Belgian screenwriter and film director. Selected filmography * ''Song of Farewell'' (1934) * ''Stradivarius'' (1935) * ''The Strange Monsieur Victor'' (1938) * ''Marie-Martine'' (1943) * ''The Secret of Monte Cr ...
for ''Giovanni Pascoli, poète lyrique'' * 1927: ** Geneviève Bianquis for ''La poésie autrichienne de Hofmannsthal à Rilke'' ** Georges Connes for ''Étude sur la pensée de H. G. Wells'' ** Clara de Longworth-Chambrun for ''Shakespeare, auteur, poète'' ** A. Augustin-Thierry for ''La princesse Beljiojoso'' * 1928: ** Paul Berret for ''Victor Hugo'' ** Robert Chantemesse for ''Le roman inconnu de la duchesse d’Abrantès'' ** John Charpentier for ''Coleridge'' ** Maurice Magendie for ''Du nouveau sur l’Astrée'' **
Pierre Moreau Pierre Moreau (born December 12, 1957 in Vercheres, Quebec) is a lawyer and a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. Pierre Moreau was the Liberal MNA for the riding of Marguerite-D'Youville in the National Assembly of Quebec from 20 ...
for ''Chateaubriand, l’homme et la vie, le génie et les livres'' **
Marcel Raymond Marcel Raymond (December 20, 1897 in Geneva – November 28, 1981 in Geneva) was a Swiss literary critic who specialized in French literature. He is generally grouped with the so-called "Geneva School". Biography Marcel Raymond first studied in G ...
for ''L’influence de Ronsard sur la poésie française'' * 1929: ** Fernand Desonay for ''Le rêve hellénique chez les poètes parnassiens'' **
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-Ne ...
for ''La jeunesse de Schiller'' ** Lucien Maury for ''L’imagination scandinave'' ** James Sirven for ''Les années d’apprentissage de Descartes'' * 1930: ** Jules Chaix-Ruy for ''De Renan à Jacques Rivière'' **
René Grousset Biography Grousset was born in Aubais, Gard in 1885. Having graduated from the University of Montpellier with a degree in history, he began his distinguished career soon afterward. He served in the French army during World War I. In 1925, ...
for ''Sur les traces de Bouddha'' ** Jules Legras for ''La littérature en Russie'' * 1931: ** Marguerite Aron for ''Un animateur de la jeunesse au XIIIe siècle. Bx Jourdain de Saxe'' ** Charles Felgères for ''Scènes et tableaux de l’histoire d’Auvergne'' ** Émilie Romieu for ''La Vie de George Eliot'' et ''La Vie des sœurs Brontë'' * 1932: ** Maurice Bardon for ''Don Quichotte en France au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle'' ** Claire-Éliane Engel for ''La littérature alpestre'' ** Pierre Lyautey for ''L’Empire colonial français'' ** Jacques Meniaud for ''Les pionniers du Soudan'' * 1933: **
Henri Ghéon Henri Ghéon (15 March 1875 – 13 June 1944), born Henri Vangeon in Bray-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Marne, was a French playwright, novelist, poet and critic. Biography Brought up by a devout Roman Catholic mother, he lost his faith in his early teens ...
for ''Promenades avec Mozart'' ** Agnès de La Gorce for ''Francis Thomson et les poètes catholiques d’Angleterre'' ** Régis Jolivet for ''Saint Augustin et le néoplatonisme'' ** Raymond Las Vergnas for ''W.-M. Thackeray'' ** Maurice Magendie for ''Le roman français au XVIIe siècle'' ** Henriette Psichari for ''Ernest Psichari, mon frère'' * 1934: ** Paul Dudon for ''Saint Ignace de Loyola'' **
Jean Guitton Jean Guitton (August 18, 1901 – March 21, 1999) was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian. Biography Born in Saint-Étienne, Loire in August 1901, he studied at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon and was accepted at the École Normale Sup ...
for ''La philosophie de Newman'' ** Pierre Humbert for ''Un amateur : Peiresc'' ** Jean Lescoffier for ''Bjorson'' * 1935: ** R.P. François Charmot for ''L'Humanisme et l'Humain'' ** André Fauconnet for ''Études sur l'Allemagne'' ** Modeste Lioudvigovitch Hofmann and André Pierre for ''La vie de Tolstoï'' ** Louis Jalabert for ''Syrie et Liban'' ** René Lote for ''Histoire de la culture allemande'' ** Pierre Séchaud for ''Victor de Laprade, l'homme, son œuvre poétique'' * 1936: **
Alexis Carrel Alexis Carrel (; 28 June 1873 – 5 November 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump with Charle ...
for ''L'homme, cet inconnu'' **
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-Ne ...
for ''Goethe et l’art de vivre'' ** Paul Henry, S.J. for ''Plotin et l'Occident'' ** Isabelle Rivière for ''Le bouquet de roses rouges'' ** Véga for ''Henri Heine peint, par lui-même et par les autres'' * 1937: ** Jacques Arnavon for ''L’École des femmes, de Molière'' ** Jacques de Broglie for ''Madame de Staël et sa cour au château de Chaumont'' ** Léon-Basile Guerdan for ''Un ami oriental de Barrès, Tigrane Yergate'' ** Robert Mattlé for ''Lamartine voyageur'' ** Joannes Van der Lugt for ''L'action religieuse, de Ferdinand Brunetière'' * 1938: ** Jean Cathala for ''Portrait de l'Estonie'' **
Yves Congar Yves Marie-Joseph Congar (; 13 April 1904 – 22 June 1995) was a French Dominican friar, priest, and theologian. He is perhaps best known for his influence at the Second Vatican Council and for reviving theological interest in the Holy Spiri ...
for ''Chrétiens désunis'' ** René Dollot for ''L'Afghanistan'' ** Lucienne Portier for ''Antonio Fogazzaro'' ** Auguste Thomazi for ''Les flottes de l'or'' ** Henri de Ziégler for ''Vie de l'Empereur Frédéric II de Hohenstaufen'' * 1939: ** Raymond Christoflour for ''Louis le Cardonel'' **
Jean Wahl Jean André Wahl (; 25 May 188819 June 1974) was a French philosopher. Early career Wahl was educated at the École Normale Supérieure. He was a professor at the University of Paris, Sorbonne from 1936 to 1967, broken by World War II. He was in ...
for ''Études Kierkegardiennes''


From 1940 to 1988

* 1940: **
Marie Delcourt Marie Delcourt (Ixelles, 18 November 1891 – Liège, 11 February 1979) was a Belgian classical philologist. She studied at the University of Liège (ULg), and obtained a PhD in classical philology in 1919. Under the German occupation of Belgium du ...
for ''Périclès'' ** Alexandre Masseron for ''Pour comprendre la Divine Comédie'' ** Anatole Rivoallan for ''Littérature irlandaise contemporaine'' * 1941: **
Albert Dauzat Albert Dauzat (; 4 July 1877 – 31 October 1955) was a French linguist specializing in toponymy and onomastics. Dauzat, a student of Jules Gilliéron, was a director of studies at the École des hautes études. Works * ''L'argot des poilus; di ...
for ''Tableau de la langue française'' * 1942: **
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 d ...
* 1943: ** Philippe Bertault for ''Balzac et la Religion'' * 1944: ** Joseph Desaymard for ''L'Auvergne dans les lettres contemporaines'' * 1945: ** Eugène David-Bernard for ''La conquête de Madagascar'' * 1946: ** Floris Delattre for ''La personnalité d’Auguste Angelier'' ** Edmond Delucinge for ''Images littéraires de Savoie'' ** Henri Morier for ''Le rythme du vers libre symboliste'' ** Auguste Viatte for ''Victor Hugo et les illuminés de son temps'' * 1947: Victor-Henry Debidour for ''Saveur des lettres'' * 1948: ** Clara de Longworth-Chambrun for ''Shakespeare retrouvé'' ** Albert Lopez for ''Un poète et sa divine'' ** Charles Mauron for ''L'homme triple'' ** Ludovic O'Followell for ''La vie manquée de Félix Arvers'' ** Maurice Ricord for ''Louis Bertrand l'Africain'' ** André Trofimoff for ''Au jardin des mused françaises'' * 1949: John Charpentier for ''Alexandre Dumas'' * 1950: ** Raphaël Barquissau for ''Les poètes créoles du XVIIIe siècle'' ** Claire-Éliane Engel for ''Esquisses anglaises'' * 1951: ** Louis Chaigne for ''Vies et œuvres d'écrivains'' **
André-Jean Festugière André-Jean Festugière Dominica ...
for ''L'enfant d'Agrigente, suivi de Le grec et la nature'' * 1952: ** Jacques-Henry Bornecque for ''Les années d’apprentissage d'Alphonse Daudet'' ** Pierre Sage for ''Le "bon prêtre" dans la littérature française'' * 1953: Jean Soulairol for ''Paul Valéry'' * 1955: Louis-Édouard Tabary for ''Duranty'' * 1956: Auguste Haury for ''L’Ironie et l’Humour chez Cicéron'' * 1957: ** Yves Le Hir for ''Esthétique et structure du vers français'' ** Yves du Parc for ''Dans le sillage de Stendhal'' * 1958: Georges Cattaui for ''T. S. Eliot'' * 1959: René Jasinski for ''Vers le vrai Racine'' * 1960: ** Victor Del Litto for ''La vie intellectuelle de Stendhal'' ** Renée Lelièvre for ''Le Théâtre dramatique italien en France 1855-1940'' * 1961: ** Aimée Alexandre for ''Le Mythe de Tolstoï'' ** André Lagarde and Laurent Michard for ''Les grands auteurs français'' * 1962: Simone Blavier-Paquot for ''La Fontaine, vues sur l’art du moraliste'' * 1963: Armand Pierhal for ''l'ensemble de son œuvre'' * 1964: Jean-Georges Ritz for ''Le poète Gérard Manley Hopkins 1844-1889'' * 1965: Jean Mesnard for ''l'Édition des Œuvres complètes de Pascal'' * 1966: ** David Albert Griffiths for ''Jean Reynaud, encyclopédiste de l’Époque romantique'' **
Pierre Menanteau Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French language, French form of the name Peter (given name), Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via ...
for ''Images d’André Mage de Fiefmelin, poète baroque'' * 1967: Jean Onimus for ''La Connaissance poétique'' * 1968: Edmée de La Rochefoucauld for ''En lisant les cahiers de Paul Valéry'' * 1969: Henry Bonnier for ''l'Édition des Œuvres complètes de Vauvenargues'' * 1970:
Dominique Janicaud Dominique Janicaud (; 14 November 1937 – 18 August 2002) was a French philosopher, known for his critical approach to the philosophy of Heidegger.
for ''Une généalogie du spiritualisme français'' * 1971:
Philippe Sellier Philippe Sellier (born 8 November 1931) is a French literary critic and scholar. He is a specialist in the great writers who revolved around Port-Royal-des-Champs: Pascal, Racine, Antoine Arnauld, Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, La Rochefoucauld ...
for ''Pascal et saint Augustin'' * 1972:
Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel (, born Eliezer Wiesel ''Eliezer Vizel''; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored Elie Wiesel b ...
for ''Célébration hassidique'' * 1973: Pierre Marchais for ''Glossaire de Psychiatrie'' *1974:
François Châtelet François Châtelet (27 April 1925 – 26 December 1985) was a historian of philosophy, political philosophy and professor in the socratic tradition. He was the husband of philosopher Noëlle Châtelet, the sister of Lionel Jospin. Biog ...
for ''L’Histoire de la philosophie'' * 1975: ** Guillaume Guindey for ''Le drame de la pensée dialectique, Hegel, Marx, Sartre'' **
Marie-Dominique Philippe Marie-Dominique Philippe (8 September 1912 in Nord (French department) – 26 August 2006 in Loire) was a Dominican philosopher and theologian. He was ordained in 1936. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Fribourg from 1945 to 1 ...
for ''L’Être. Recherche d’une philosophie première'' * 1976: René Démoris for ''Le roman à la première personne'' * 1977: Mircea Elide for ''Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses de l’âge de pierre aux mystères d’Eleusis'' * 1978: **
Paul Bénichou Paul Bénichou (; 19 September 1908 – 14 May 2001) was a French/Algerian writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian. Bénichou first achieved prominence in 1948 with ''Morales du grand siècle'', his work on the social context of the F ...
for ''Le temps des prophètes. Doctrine de l’âge romantique'' **
Jean Lafond 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 * Jea ...
for ''La Rochefoucauld. Augustinisme et littérature''


Laureates 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 ...


Orientalism

* 1861:
Hermann Zotenberg Hermann Zotenberg (1836, Silesia – 1894, Paris) was an orientalist and Arabist. He worked for the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. His most celebrated work is his edition of the ''Chronique de Tabari'' (Paris, 1867–1871) Works * ...
* 1904: **
William Marçais William Ambroise Marçais (6 November 1872, Rennes – 1 October 1956, Paris), was a French Oriental studies, Orientalist, particularly noted as an expert on the Maghrebi Arabic dialects. Biography William Marçais was born in Rennes in 1872. Aft ...
for ''Le Taqrîb de En-Nawawi, Le dialecte arabe parlé à Tlemcen et Les monuments arabes de Tlemcen.'' **
Charles Fossey Charles Fossey (29 July 1869 – 27 November 1946) was a French assyriologist. In education he was a follower and colleague of Émile Durkheim. Living at the turn of the century, he made a significant contribution to Assyriology and studied the m ...
for ''Manuel d'Assyriologie'' ** Antoine Cabaton for ''Nouvelles Recherches sur les Chams.'' * 1907: ** Edmond Doutté for ''Merrâkech'' ** Adamantios Adamantiou for ''Chronique de Morée'' ** Armand Guérinot for ''Bibliographie du Jaïnisme'' ** Gaston Migeon for ''Manuel d'art musulman'' ** Jean Touzard for ''Grammaire hébraïque'' ** Henry de Castries for ''Sources inédites de l'histoire du Maroc'' * 1910: ** Hermine Harrleben for ''Correspondance de Champollion'' ** Félix Lacôte for ''Essai sur Gunāḍhya et la "Bṛhatkathā"'' ** François Martin for ''Lettres néo-babyloniennes'' ** Antoine Cabaton for ''Catalogue sommaire des manuscrits sanscrits et pālis de la Bibliothèque nationale'' ** Mr. Delaporte for ''La Chronographie syriaque d'Élie bâr Sinaya'' (''Chronographia'' of
Elijah of Nisibis , native_name_lang = Syriac , church = Church of the East , archdiocese = Nisibis , province = Metropolitanate of Nisibis , metropolis = , diocese = , see = , appointed = 26 Dece ...
) * 1913: ** Étienne Lunet de Lajonquière for ''Inventaire descriptif des monuments du Cambodge'' ** Antoine Cabaton for ''Catalogue sommaire des manuscrits indiens, indo-chinois et malayopolynésiens de la Bibliothèque nationale'' ** Léon Legrain for ''Le temps des rois d'Ur'' ** Emmanuel Podechard for ''L'Ecclésiaste'' **
Fulcran Vigouroux Fulcran Grégoire Vigouroux (13 February 1837 – 21 February 1915), was a French Catholic priest and scholar, biblical theologian, apologist, and the first secretary of the Pontificial Commission (1903–1912). Vigouroux defended the historicity of ...
for ''Dictionnaire de la Bible'' * 1916: ** Edmond Fagnan for ''Mawerdi (Abou'l-Hasan ʿAli). Les Statuts gouvernementaux, ou Règles de droit public et administratif'' **
François Nau François Nau (13 May 1864 at Thil – 2 September 1931 at Paris) was a French Catholic priest, mathematician, Syriacist, and specialist in oriental languages. He published a great number of eastern Christian texts and translations for the firs ...
for ''Les ménologes des évangéliaires coptes-arabes'' and ''Ammonas, successeur de saint Antoine.'' * 1937: **
Jean-Philippe Lauer Jean-Philippe Lauer (7 May 1902 – 15 May 2001), was a French architect and Egyptologist. He was considered to be the foremost expert on pyramid construction techniques and methods. Biography Arrival in Egypt He was born in the 8th arrondi ...
for ''Fouilles à Saqqarah'' ** G. Ort-Geuthner for ''Grammaire démotique du Papyrus magique de Londres et de Leyde'' * 1940: **
Roman Ghirshman Roman Ghirshman (, ''Roman Mikhailovich Girshman''; October 3, 1895 – 5 September 1979) was a Russian-born French archeologist who specialized in ancient Persia. Ghirshman spent nearly thirty years excavating ancient Persian archeological ...
for ''Fouilles de Sialk, près de Kashan'' ** Armand Ruhlmann for ''Les Grottes préhistoriques d'"El Khenzira" (région de Mazagan)'' and ''Les Recherches de préhistoire dans l'extrême Sud marocain'' * 1943: **
Jean Sauvaget Jean Sauvaget (27 January 1901 – 5 March 1950) was a 20th-century French orientalist and historian, professor at the Collège de France. After studying at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales and graduating in Arabic a ...
for ''Alep : essai sur le développement d'une grande ville syrienne des origines au milieu du XIXe siècle'' ** Abbé Chaîne for ''Notions de langue égyptienne. Langue du Nouvel-Empire'' ** Robert-C. Flavigny for ''Le Dessin de l'Asie occidentale ancienne'' * 1946: **
Jean Vercoutter Jean Vercoutter (20 January 1911 – 16 July 2000) was a French Egyptologist. One of the pioneers of archaeological research into Sudan from 1953, he was Director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale from 1977 to 1981. Biography Bo ...
for ''Les objets égyptiens et égyptisants du mobilier funéraire carthaginois'' ** Robert de Langhe for ''Les textes de Ras Shamra-Ugarit et leurs rapports avec le milieu biblique de l'Ancien Testament'' * 1949: ** Marcel Simon for ''Verus Israël, les relations entre juifs et chrétiens dans l'empire romain (135-425)'' ** Jean David-Weill for ''Le Djami, d'Ibn Wahb'' * 1952: ** Pierre Merlat for ''Répertoire des inscriptions et monuments figurés du culte de Jupiter Dolichenus'' **
René Neuville René Neuville (30 October 1899, Gibraltar – 23 June 1952, Jerusalem) was a French prehistorian and diplomat posted to the Consulate General of France in Jerusalem, French consulate in Jerusalem. Diplomatic career Neuville's father was the Co ...
for ''Le paléolithique et le mésolithique du désert de Judée'' * 1958: René Brunel for ''Le Monachisme errant dans l'Islam, Sīdi Heddi et les Heddāwa'' * 1961: Yvonne Rosengarten for ''Le Régime des offrandes dans la société sumérienne et Le concept sumérien de consommation dans la vie économique et religieuse'' * 1964: René Labat for ''Manuel d’épigraphie akkadienne : signes, syllabaires, idéogrammes'' * 1967 Toudic Fahd for ''La Divination arabe, études religieuses, sociologiques et folkloriques sur le milieu natif de l'Islam'' * 1970: Maurice Birot for ''Tablettes économiques et administratives d'époque babylonienne ancienne'' * 1973: Jean-Claude Goyon for ''Confirmation du pouvoir royal au nouvel an'' * 1976:
André Raymond André Raymond (7 August 1925 – 18 February 2011) was professor emeritus at the University of Provence. He was an expert on the history of the city in the Arab world. Early life André Raymond was born on 7 August 1925 in Montargis, France. Care ...
for ''Artisans et commerçants au Caire au XVIIIe siècle'' * 1979: Arion Roșu for ''Les conceptions psychologiques dans les textes médicaux indiens'' * 1982: Centre de documentation et de recherche sur la civilisation khmère * 1985:
Francesca Bray Francesca is an Italian female given name, derived from the Latin male name ''Franciscus'' meaning 'the Frenchman' It is widely used in most Romance languages, including Italian language, Italian, French language, French and Catalan language, Cata ...
for ''Science and civilisation in China (Volume 6)'' * 1991: Nathalie Beaux for ''Le cabinet de curiosités de Thoutmosis III. Plantes et animaux du « Jardin botanique » de Karnak'' * 1994:
Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski (Józef Edmund Mélèze-Modrzejewski, 8 March 1930 in Lublin – 29 January 2017) was a Polish-French historian and professor of ancient history at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University. Career Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejew ...
for all of his work * 1997: Audran Labrousse for ''L’architecture des pyramides à textes. I, Saqqara Nord'' * 2000: Adnan Bounni, Jacques Lagarce and Élisabeth Lagarce for ''Ras Ibn Hani. I, Le palais nord du Bronze récent. Fouilles 1979-1995, synthèse préliminaire'' * 2003:
Bruno Dagens Bruno Dagens (born 1935) is a French archaeologist, art historian, Sanskritist, and a specialist on Angkor Wat. He is currently a professor emeritus of the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Career Dagens began to study archaeology in h ...
and Marie-Luce Barazer-Billoret for ''traduction du Rauravâgama : un traité de rituel et de doctrine shivaïtes'' * 2006: Louis Le Quellec for ''Du Sahara au Nil. Peintures et gravures d’avant les pharaons'' * 2009: Florence Jullien for ''Le monachisme en Perse. La réforme d’Abraham le Grand, père des moines de l’Orient'' * 2010: Abdelhamid Fenina for ''Numismatique et histoire de la monnaie en Tunisie'' * 2012: Aram Mardirossian for ''La collection canonique d’Antioche. Droit et hérésie à travers le premier recueil de législation ecclésiastique (IVe s.)'' * 2015: Philippe Vallat for ''Épître sur l’intellect d’Abū Nasr al-Fārābī'' * 2019: Anna Caiozzo for ''Le Roi glorieux. Les imaginaires de la royauté d’après les enluminures du Shāh Nāma de Firdawsī aux époques timouride et turkmène'' * 2021: Géraud Poumarède for ''L’Empire de Venise et les Turcs, XVIe-XVIIe siècles''


Classical Antiquity

* 1901:
Alfred Foucher Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher (1865–1952), was a French scholar, who argued that the Buddha image has Greek origins. He has been called the "father of Gandhara studies", and is a much-cited scholar on ancient Buddhism in northwest Indian subcont ...
for his mémoire entitled ''Une page nouvelle dans l'histoire de l'art grec (E. Curtius)'' * 1903: ** Charles Lécrivain for his mémoire entitled ''In labore solatium'' ** Léon Homo for his mémoire entitled ''Quid de Historia Augusta sentiendum'' ** Mr. Colin for his mémoire entitled ''Furor est, si alienigenae homines, plus lingua et moribus et legibus quam maris terrarumque spatio discreti, etc., etc..'' * 1905: **
Gustave Glotz Gustave Glotz (17 February 1862, Haguenau, Bas-Rhin – 16 April 1935, Paris) was a French historian of ancient Greece. He was a supporter of the theory that history never follows a simple, logical course. Glotz studied at the École normale ...
for ''La solidarité de la famille dans le droit criminel en Grèce'' **
Auguste Audollent Auguste Audollent (14 July 1864 – 7 April 1943) was a French historian, archaeologist and Latin epigrapher, specialist of ancient Rome, in particular the magical inscriptions ('' tabellæ defixionum''). His main thesis was devoted to ''Roman Car ...
for ''Carthage romaine'' * 1908: **
Gustave Lefebvre Gustave Lefebvre (17 July 1879 – 1 November 1957) was a French Egyptologist. As inspector for Middle Egypt for the Egyptian Antiquities Service headed by Gaston Maspero, he managed the partage of Ludwig Borchardt's excavations at el- Amarna, ...
for ''Fragments d’un manuscrit de Ménandre'' ** for ''Les clausules métriques latines'' ** Victor Chapot for ''La Frontière de l'Euphrate, de Pompée à la conquête arabe'' ** for ''La Table latine d'Héraclée'' **
Léon Robin Léon Robin (Nantes, 17 January 1866July 1947) was a French philosopher and scholar of Greek philosophy, professor of history of ancient philosophy at the Sorbonne from 1924 to 1936. Robin, the son of a merchant, began teaching in the Faculty of L ...
for ''La Théorie platonicienne des idées et des nombres d'après Aristote'' * 1911: ** Philippe-Ernest Legrand for ''Daos, tableau de la Comédie grecque pendant la période dite nouvelle'' ** Camille Sourdille for ''Hérodote et la religion de l'Égypte et La Durée et l'étendue du voyage d'Hérodote en Égypte'' ** Charles Plésent for ''Le culex, étude sur l'alexandrinisme latin'' ** Alfred Besançon for ''Les Adversaires de l'hellénisme à Rome pendant la période républicaine'' * 1914: ** Eugène de Faye for ''Gnostiques et gnosticisme'' ** Waldemar Deonna for ''L'Archéologie'' ** Jean Lesquier for ''Les Institutions militaires de l'Égypte'' ** Raymond Billiard for ''La vigne dans l'Antiquité'' * 1917: **
Jean Maspero Jean Maspero (20 December 1885 – 17 February 1915) was an early 20th-century French papyrologist. He was the son of egyptologist Gaston Maspero and his wife ''née'' Louise d'Estournelles de Constant (Sister of Paul d'Estournel de Constant, wi ...
for ''Papyrus grecs d'époque byzantine'' ** Pierre Gusman for ''L’Art décoratif de Rome de la fin de la République au IVe siècle'' * 1923: ** Robert Fawtier for ''Sainte Catherine de Sienne'' ** Armand Delatte for ''Essai sur la politique pythagoricienne'' ** Jules Marouzeau for ''L'ordre des mots dans la phrase latine'' * 1911: ** Philippe-Ernest Legrand for ''Daos, tableau de la Comédie grecque pendant la période dite nouvelle'' ** Camille Sourdille for ''Hérodote et la religion de l'Égypte et La Durée et l'étendue du voyage d'Hérodote en Égypte'' ** Charles Plésent for ''Le culex, étude sur l'alexandrinisme latin'' ** Alfred Besançon for ''Les Adversaires de l'hellénisme à Rome pendant la période républicaine'' * 1914: ** Eugène de Faye for ''Gnostiques et gnosticisme'' ** Waldemar Deonna for ''L'Archéologie'' ** Jean Lesquier for ''Les Institutions militaires de l'Égypte'' ** Raymond Billiard for ''La vigne dans l'Antiquité'' * 1917: **
Jean Maspero Jean Maspero (20 December 1885 – 17 February 1915) was an early 20th-century French papyrologist. He was the son of egyptologist Gaston Maspero and his wife ''née'' Louise d'Estournelles de Constant (Sister of Paul d'Estournel de Constant, wi ...
for ''Papyrus grecs d'époque byzantine'' ** Pierre Gusman for ''L’Art décoratif de Rome de la fin de la République au IVe siècle'' * 1923: ** Robert Fawtier for ''Sainte Catherine de Sienne'' ** Armand Delatte for ''Essai sur la politique pythagoricienne'' ** Jules Marouzeau for ''L'ordre des mots dans la phrase latine'' * 1938: **
André-Jean Festugière André-Jean Festugière Dominica ...
for ''Contemplation et vie contemplative selon Platon'' ** Paul Cloché for ''Démosthènes et la fin de la démocratie athénienne'' *1941: ** Marcel Durry for his edition of ''Panégyrique de Trajan'' ** Mr. Cordier for his studies on the epic vocabulary of the Æneid ** Marius Soffray for his research into the syntax of saint John Chrysostome according to the ''Homélies sur les statues'' * 1944: ** André Loyen for ''Sidoine Apollinaire et l'esprit précieux en Gaule aux derniers jours de l'Empire'' ** André Magdelaine for ''Essai sur les origines de la sponsio'' * 1947: **
William Seston William Seston (2 June 1900 – 2 October 1983) was a 20th-century French historian and epigrapher, a specialist of the history of the Roman Empire. He was professor at the Sorbonne and a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres ...
for ''Dioclétien et la tétrarchie'' ** Jacqueline Duchemin for ''L'Agôn dans la tragédie grecque'' **
Robert Marichal Robert Marichal, (20 March 1904 – 23 October 1999) was a 20th-century French palaeographer and archivist. Career A student at the École Nationale des Chartes, Robert Marichal obtained his archivist palaeographer degree in 1927 with a thesis ...
for ''L'Occupation romaine de la Basse-Egypte, le statut des "auxilia"'' ** Émile Szlechter for ''Le contrat de société en Babylonie, en Grèce et à Rome'' * 1959: ** Pierre Fabre for ''Saint Paulin de Nole et l'amitié chrétienne'' ** Dr. R. Pépin for ''"Liber medicinalis" de Quintus Serenus (Serenus Sammonicus)'' * 1953: ** Paul Cloché for ''Thèbes de Béotie, des origines à la conquête romaine'' **
Jean Irigoin 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 ...
for ''Histoire du texte de Pindare'' * 1955: **
André Parrot André Charles Ulrich Parrot (15 February 1901 – 24 August 1980) was a French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East. He led excavations in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, and is best known for his work at Mari, Syria, where he led i ...
for ''Archéologie mésopotamienne. II, Technique et Problèmes'' ** Maurice Mercier for ''Le feu grégeois'' * 1956: Christian Courtois for ''Les Vandales et l'Afrique'' * 1959: ** Georges Vallet for ''Rhégion et Zancle'' ** Henri Le Bonniec for ''Le culte de Cérès à Rome'' * 1962:
Hans-Georg Pflaum Hans-Georg Pflaum (3 June 1902, Berlin – 26 December 1979, Linz) was a German-born French historian. Life Pflaum, who came from a Jewish family of industrialists, at first studied law in Breslau and Heidelberg, afterwards taking a position in ...
for ''Les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le haut-empire romain'' * 1965:
François Chamoux François Chamoux (4 April 1915 – 21 October 2007) was a French Hellenist and archaeologist, a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.Where he was elected in 1981 to replace André Parrot. Biography Chamoux attended lyce ...
for ''La Civilisation grecque à l'époque archaïque et classique'' * 1968:
Marcel Le Glay Marcel Le Glay (7 May 1920, Arleux near Douai ( Nord) – 14 August 1992.) was a 20th-century French historian and archaeologist, specializing in ancient Rome. His work focused in particular on Roman religion and North Africa during Antiquity, espe ...
for ''Saturne africain, Histoire et Monuments'' * 1971:
Michel Labrousse Michel Labrousse (25 December 1912, Brive-la-Gaillarde – 1988) was a 20th-century French historian. A student at the École normale supérieure in Paris from 1931 to 1935, Michel Labrousse obtained there his agrégation of history and geogra ...
for ''Toulouse antique'' * 1974: Goulven Madec for ''Saint Ambroise et la philosophie'' * 1977: Madeleine Bonjour for ''Terre natale. études sur une composante affective du patriotisme romain'' * 1980: Robert Amy and
Pierre Gros Pierre Gros (born May 7, 1939 in Incheville, France) is a contemporary scholar of ancient Roman architecture and the Latin language, particularly the texts of the writer Vitruvius. He presently holds the post of Professor of Latin language and civ ...
for ''La maison Carrée de Nîmes'' * 1983: Jean-Marie Dentzet for ''Le motif du banquet couché dans le Proche-Orient et le monde grec du VIIe au IVe siècle avant J.-C.'' * 1986: Madeleine Jost for ''Sanctuaires et cultes d'Arcadie'' * 1988: Marie-Ange Bonhême for ''Les Noms royaux dans l'Égypte de la troisième période intermédiaire'' * 1989: André Tchernia for ''Le vin de l'Italie romaine : essai d'histoire économique d'après les amphores'' * 1992:
Alexandre Grandazzi Alexandre Grandazzi (born 8 February 1957) is a French university professor, a specialist of archaeology and Roman history. University career * Former student of the École normale supérieure (class 1976 Lettres) * Agrégé de lettres classique ...
for ''La fondation de Rome. Réflexion sur l’histoire'' * 1995: René Ginouvès * 1998:
François de Callataÿ François de Callataÿ (born 1961) is a Belgian ancient historian, professor at the École pratique des hautes études (Paris/Sorbonne), who has written significant studies of coinage and finance in the ancient Mediterranean world. Life and caree ...
for ''L’histoire des guerres mithridatiques vues par les monnaies'' * 2001: Galien for ''Exhortation à l’étude de la médecine, Art médical II. Édition et traduction par Véronique Boudon'' * 2004: Bernard Holzmann for ''L’acropole d’Athènes'' * 2007: Christophe Feyel for ''Les artisans dans les sanctuaires grecs aux époques classique et hellénistique à travers la documentation financière en Grèce'' * 2013: André Tchernia for ''Les Romains et le commerce'' * 2016: Hélène Dessales for ''Le Partage de l’eau. Fontaines et distribution hydraulique dans l’habitat urbain de l’Italie romaine'' * 2020: Pierre Judet de La Combe for her work dedicated to
Homer Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the ...
and her translation in ''Tout Homère'' of the
Illiad The ''Iliad'' (; grc, Ἰλιάς, Iliás, ; "a poem about Ilium") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the ''Odysse ...
.


Middle Age and Renaissance

* 1906: ** Jules Gay for ''L'Italie méridionale et l'Empire byzantin depuis l'avènement de Basile Ier jusqu'à la prise de Bari par les Normands (867-1071)'' **
Charles Samaran Charles Samaran (28 October 1879 – 15 October 1982) was a 20th-century French historian and archivist, who was born in Cravencères (in the Gers) and died at Nogaro (also in the Gers), shortly before his 103rd birthday. Biography Having grad ...
and
Guillaume Mollat Guillaume Marie Charles Henri Mollat (1 February 1877 – 4 May 1968) was a French prelate and historian. Biography Guillaume Mollat was born in Nantes on 1 February 1877. He studied at the Day School for Children Nantais, then entered the Sai ...
for ''La fiscalité pontificale en France au xive siècle (période d'Avignon et grand schisme d'Occident)'' ** Pierre Champion for ''Guillaume de Flavy, capitaine de Compiègne'' * 1909: **
Albert Vogt Albert may refer to: Companies * Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic * Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands * Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia * Albert Productions, a record label * Albert ...
for ''Basile Ier, empereur de Byzance, 867-886'', and ''la civilisation byzantine à la fin du IXe siècle'' **
Henri Quentin Dom Henri Quentin (7 October 1872, Saint-Thierry - 4 February 1935, Rome) was a French Benedictine monk. A philologist specializing in biblical texts and martyrologies, he was the creator of an original method of textual criticism (sometimes cal ...
, for ''Les martyrologes historiques du Moyen Âge'' ** Mr. Wartmann for ''Les vitraux suisses au musée du Louvre'' ** Paul Perdrizet for ''La Vierge de Miséricorde'' * 1912: **
Ferdinand Chalandon Ferdinand Chalandon (February 10, 1875 – October 31, 1921) was a French medievalist and Byzantinist. Chalandon's work remains the most substantial study of the Normans in Italy and though the details of what he wrote a hundred years ago have in ...
for ''Jean II Comnène, 1118-1143, et Manuel I Comnène, 1143-1180'' ** Frédégand Callaey for ''L'Idéalisme franciscain spirituel au XIVe siècle. Étude sur Ubertin de Casale'' **
Jean Longnon 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 * J ...
for ''Chronique de Morée'' ** Dom Antonio Staerk for ''Les manuscrits latins du Ve au XIIIe siècle conservés à la Bibliothèque impériale de Saint-Pétersbourg'' * 1915: **
Henri Hauvette 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 Montm ...
for ''Boccace, étude biographique et littéraire'' ** René de Brebisson for ''Les Rabodanges'' * 1918: ** André Blum for ''L'estampe satirique en France pendant les guerres de religion'' ** Charles Guéry for ''Histoire de l'abbaye de Lyre'' ** Arthur Långfors for ''Les incipit des poèmes français antérieurs au XVIe siècle'' ** Eugène Parturier for ''Délie, object de plus haulte vertu, édition critique par
Maurice Scève Maurice Scève (c. 1501–c. 1564), was a French poet active in Lyon during the Renaissance period. He was the centre of the Lyonnese côterie that elaborated the theory of spiritual love, derived partly from Plato and partly from Petrarch. This ...
'' * 1924:
Edmond Faral Edmond Faral (18 March 1882 – 8 February 1958) was an Algerian-born French medievalist. He became in 1924 Professor of Latin literature at the Collège de France. He wrote his dissertation on the jongleurs, and E. R. Curtius states that he was ...
for ''Les Arts poétiques du xiie et du xiiie siècles'' * 1939: ** Georges Gaillard ''Les Débuts de la sculpture romane espagnole'' **
Louis-Fernand Flutre Louis-Fernand Flutre (21 June 1892 - 1978) was a French academic. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure, he was a ''professeur agrégé'' in a ''lycée'' before teaching in the Faculty of Letters in Lyon. He published a hundred work ...
and K. sneyders for ''Li Fet des Romains : compilé ensemble de Saluste et de Suetoine et de Lucan : texte du XIIIe siècle'' **
Charles de Tolnay Charles de Tolnay, born Károly von Tolnai (May 27, 1899 – January 17, 1981), was a Hungarian art historian and an expert on Michelangelo. According to Erwin Panofsky, he was "one of the most brilliant art historians" of his time.Ulrike Wendlan ...
for ''Le Maître de Flémalle et les frères Van Eyck'' * 1942: ** Suzanne Solente for ''Le Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V par Christine de Pisan'' ** René Vielliard for ''Les origines de la Rome chrétienne'' ** Pierre Daudet for ''L'Etablissement de la compétence de l'Eglise en matière de divorce et de consanguinité'' * 1945 Raymonde Foreville for ''L'Église et la royauté en Angleterre sous Henri II Plantagenêt (1154-1189)'' * 1990: for ''Les châteaux de France au siècle de la Renaissance'' * 1993:
Bernard Vincent Bernard ('' Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brav ...
for ''1492 - « L’année terrible »'' * 1996: Christian Trottmann for ''La vision béatifique. - Des disputes scolastiques à sa définition par Benoît XII'' * 1999: for ''Agrippa d’Aubigné'' * 2002: Florence Vuilleumier-Laurens for ''La raison des figures symboliques à la Renaissance et à l’Âge classique'' * 2005: Ursula Bähler for ''Gaston Paris et la philologie romane'' * 2008: for ''La légende du roi Arthur'' * 2011: Hélène Millet for ''L’Église du Grand Schisme (1378-1417)'' * 2014: André Bouvard and his collaborators for ''Heinrich Schickhardt, Inventarium, 1630-1632. L’inventaire des biens et des œuvres d’un architecte de la Renaissance.'' * 2017: Thomas Tanase for ''Marco Polo''


Laureates of the

Académie des sciences morales et politiques 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 philosophy, f ...

* 1877 : Gabriel Compayré for ''Histoire critique des doctrines de l'éducation en France depuis le seizième siècle''. * 1999 : for ''La femme seule et le prince charmant. Enquête sur la vie en solo'', Paris (Nathan), 1999 (in the category Morality and sociology). * 2001 : Cécile Janura for her doctoral thesis ''Le droit administratif de Marcel Waline. Essai sur la contribution d’un positiviste au droit administratif français'' (Université d’Artois, 1999). (in the category Legislation, public law and jurisprudence). * 2003 : Olivier Midière for his work L’aigle, le bœuf et le e-business, 3 tomes, auto-édition, 2002 (in the categories Political Economy, statistics and finance). * 2005 : Jean-Pierre Gutton for ''Dévots et société au XVIIe siècle. Construire le ciel sur la terre'', Paris (Belin), 2004 (in the category History and Geography). * 2007 : Frédéric Gros for ''États de violence. Essai sur la fin de la guerre'', Paris (Gallimard), 2006 (in the general category). * 2009 : for ''Nicolas Beauzée, grammairien philosophe'', Paris (Honoré Champion), 2009 (in the category Philosophy). * 2011 : for ''Jours de fête. Jours fériés et fêtes légales dans la France contemporaine'', Paris (Tallandier), 2010 (in the category Morality and sociology). * 2013 : Soudabeh Marin for ''Ostad Elahi et la tradition. Droit, philosophie et mystique en Iran, et Ostad Elahi et la modernité. Droit, philosophie et magistrature en Iran'', éditions Safran, Bruxelles, 2012. * 2015 : for ''Pourquoi pas nous ?'', Paris (Fayard/Les Belles Lettres), 2014.


Laureates of the

Académie des Beaux-Arts 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 philosophy, ...

* 1883 : for ''Les Médailleurs italiens des XVe et XVIe siècles''. * ... * 1989 : Pierre et François Greffe for ''Traité des dessins et des modèles''. * 2001 :
Hervé Lacombe Hervé Lacombe is a French musicologist, a professor at the University Rennes 2 since 2002 and a specialist of music of France. He is the author of several works on the opera and two biographies, one of Georges Bizet and the other of Francis P ...
for ''Georges Bizet : Naissance d'une identité créatrice'', Fayard, 2000. * 2007 :
Andrei Nakov Andrei, Andrey or Andrej (in Cyrillic script: Андрэй , Андрей or Андреј) is a form of Andreas/Ἀνδρέας in Slavic languages and Romanian. People with the name include: *Andrei of Polotsk (–1399), Lithuanian nobleman *And ...
for ''Kazimir Malewicz, le peintre absolu'', Thalia Édition (Paris, 2007). * 2009 :
Philippe Bouchet Philippe Bouchet (born 1953) is a French biologist whose primary scientific fields of study are malacology (the study of molluscs) and taxonomy. He works at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He is also a Commissioner of the ...
for '', le dérangeur''. * 2011 :
Christophe Looten Christophe Looten (born 5 April 1958) is a French composer. Born in Bergues, he was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in January 2000. Biography Looten has been composing since the age of seven, when he began to study music with the loc ...
for his work ''Dans la tête de Richard Wagner, archéologie d'un génie'' (Éditions Fayard).


Laureates of the

Académie des Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at the ...

* 1862: ** (Photography). ** Mr. Miersch (Photography). * 1896 :
Jacques Hadamard Jacques Salomon Hadamard (; 8 December 1865 – 17 October 1963) was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex analysis, differential geometry and partial differential equations. Biography The son of a teac ...
for his work in Geodesics. * 1929 : Henri Benard for his work on eddies in fluid dynamics. * 1992 : Monique Pick.


References

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