The Société des Antiquaires de France (Society of Antiquaries of France) is a Parisian historical and archaeological society, founded in 1804 under the name of the Académie celtique (Celtic Academy). It is now based at the
Louvre
The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...
, in the pavillon Mollien.
History
The Académie celtique was founded by prefect
Jacques Cambry
Jacques Cambry (2 October 1749 – 31 December 1807) was a Breton writer and expert in Celtic France. An early proponent of what came to be called Celtomania, he was the founder of the Celtic Academy, the forerunner of the Societé des Ant ...
,
Jacques-Antoine Dulaure and
Jacques Le Brigant on 9
germinal Year XII (30 March 1804), with the goal of studying
Gallic civilization and French history and archaeology. Cambry was its first president, until his death in 1807. In 1813 it changed its name to the Société des Antiquaires de France, after the
Society of Antiquaries of London
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Soci ...
, and from 1814 to 1848 it changed again to the Société royale des antiquaires de France under the
Bourbon Restoration. According to the regime in France, it was then called the Société impériale des antiquaires de France or Société nationale des antiquaires de France, but it re-assumed its present name in 1871, and has not changed it since.
Since its foundation it has published a collection of ''
Mémoire
In French culture, the word ''mémoire'', as in un mémoire ("a memory" – indefinite article), reflects the writer's own experiences and memories. The word has no direct English translation.
Up to the 18th century
The word appeared in the course ...
s'', and of ''Bulletins'', as well as an annual directory of its members.
Some members
The site of the Société nationale des Antiquaires de France publishes prosopographical records of its members among which are:
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Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois (1777-1837)
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Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756-1825)
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Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage (1760-1825)
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (; 1 April 1755, Belley, Ain – 2 February 1826, Paris) was a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of ''The Physiology of Taste'' (''Physiologie du Goût''), gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: ...
(1755-1826)
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Jacques-Antoine Dulaure (1755-1835)
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Gabriel Vaugeois (1753-1836)
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Alexandre Lenoir (1761-1839)
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Alexandre du Sommerard (1779-1842)
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Charles Nodier
Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier (29 April 1780 – 27 January 1844) was a French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the ''conte fantastique'', gothic literature, and vampire tales. His dream related writings ...
(1780-1844)
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Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard
Alexandre-Évariste Coccinelle Fragonard (26 October 1780 – 10 November 1850) was a French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style. He received his first training from his father and drew from him his piquant subjects and great facility ...
(1780-1850)
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François Guizot (1787-1874)
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Auguste Mariette (1821-1881)
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Jules Quicherat (1814-1882)
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Gustave de Clausade (1815-1888)
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Maximin Deloche (1817-1900)
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Ernest Renan (1823-1892)
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Louis Courajod (1841-1896)
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Lecoy de La Marche (1839-1897)
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Alexandre Bertrand (1820-1902)
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Auguste Molinier (1851-1904)
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Louis Demaison (1852–1937)
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Léopold Delisle (1826-1910)
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Auguste Longnon
Auguste Honoré Longnon (18 October 1844, in Paris – 12 July 1911, in Paris) was a French historian and archivist. He is remembered for his research in the field of historical geography and for his edition of the 15th century poet, Francois ...
(1844-1911)
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Antoine Héron de Villefosse (1845-1919)
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Louis Duchesne (1843-1922)
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Henri-François Delaborde (1854-1927)
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Gustave Schlumberger (1844-1929)
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François Martroye (1852–1933), historian of ancient Rome
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Joseph Berthelot, baron de Baye (1853- 1931)
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Paul Fournier (1853-1935)
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Paul Monceaux (1859-1941)
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Marcel Aubert (1884-1962)
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Jérôme Carcopino (1881-1970)
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Jean Vallery-Radot (1890-1971)
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Paul Deschamps
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*Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name)
* Paul (surname), a list of people
People
Christianity
*Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...
(1888-1974)
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Charles Perrat (1899-1976)
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Henri-Irénée Marrou (1904-1977)
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Jean Babelon (1889-1978)
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Hans-Georg Pflaum (1902-1979)
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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 gr ...
(1879-1982)
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Michel de Boüard (1909-1989)
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André Grabar
André Nicolaevitch Grabar (July 26, 1896 – October 3, 1990) was an historian of Romanesque art and the art of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Bulgarian Empire. Born in Ukraine and educated in Kyiv, St. Petersburg and Odessa, he spent his car ...
(1896-1990)
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André Chastel
André Chastel (15 November 1912, Paris – 18 July 1990, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French art historian, author of an important work on the Italian Renaissance.
He was a professor at the Collège de France, where he held the chair of art and civil ...
(1912-1990)
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Jacques Dubois
Jacques Dubois ( Latinised as Jacobus Sylvius; 1478 – 14 January 1555) was a French anatomist. Dubois was the first to describe venous valves, although their function was later discovered by William Harvey. He was the brother of Franciscus Sy ...
(1919-1991)
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Louis Carolus-Barré (1910-1993)
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Jean Hubert (1902-1994)
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Jacques Heurgon (1903-1995)
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André Chastagnol
André Chastagnol (21 February 1920 – 2 September 1996) was a French historian, specializing in Latin epigraphy and literature.
After teaching at the Universities of Algiers, Rennes and Paris-X, he finished his career as a professor at the ...
(1920-1996)
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Laurent-François Dethier (1757-1843)
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Paul-Marie Duval (1912-1997)
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Léon Pressouyre (1935-2009)
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Robert-Henri Bautier (1922-2010)
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Claude Lepelley (1934-2015)
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Gabriel Peignot
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Gustave de Clausade
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Jean-François Le Gonidec
Jean François Marie Le Gonidec de Kerdaniel (Breton: Yann-Frañsez ar Gonideg) (4 September 1775 – 12 October 1838) was a Breton grammarian who codified the Breton language.
He played an important role in the history of his native language by ...
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Léopold Delisle
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Fortia d’Urban
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Philippe Contamine, its present secrétaire
Some foreign members
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Wilhelm von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (, also , ; ; 22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin, which was named afte ...
(1767–1835)
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Ferdinand Keller (1800–1881)
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Giovanni Battista De Rossi
Giovanni Battista (Carlo) de Rossi (23 February 1822 – 20 September 1894) was an Italian archaeologist, famous even outside his field for rediscovering early Christian catacombs.
Life and works
Born in Rome, he was the son of Commendatore C ...
(1822–1894)
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Otto Hirschfeld
Otto Hirschfeld (March 16, 1843 – March 27, 1922) was a German epigraphist and professor of ancient history who was a native of Königsberg.
In 1863 received a doctorate from the University of Königsberg, and in 1869 became a professor at th ...
(1843–1922)
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Karl Ferdinand Werner (1924–2008)
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Teofilo Ruiz
Publications
* ''Mémoires de l’Académie Celtique ou Mémoires d’Antiquités Celtiques, Gauloises et Françaises'', 5 volumes, 1807-1812.
* ''Mémoires de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 1e série, 10 volumes (I à X), 1817-1834.
* ''Mémoires de la Société royale des Antiquaires de France'', 2e série, 10 volumes (XI à XX), 1835-1850.
* ''Mémoires de la Société impériale des Antiquaires de France'', 3e série, 10 volumes (XXI à XXX), 1852-1868.
* ''Mémoires de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 4e série, 10 volumes (XXXI
[''Mémoires de la Société impériale des Antiquaires de France'', tome XXXI., Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, 1870, vol. 31, n° 1, pp. 371-37]
/ref> à XL), 1869-1879.
* ''Mémoires de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 5e série, 10 volumes (XLI à L), 1880-1889.
* ''Mémoires de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 6e série, 10 volumes (LI à LX), 1890-1899.
* ''Mémoires de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 7e série, 10 volumes (LXI à LXX), 1900-1910.
* ''Mémoires de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 8e série, 10 volumes (LXXI à LXXX), 1911-1937.
* ''Mémoires de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 9e série, 5 volumes (LXXXI à LXXXIV), 1944-2010.
* ''Table alphabétique des publications de l’Académie celtique et de la Société des Antiquaires de France (1807-1889)'', Paris, Klincksieck, 1894.
* ''Table alphabétique des publications de la Société des Antiquaires de France (1890-1938)'', Paris, 1944.
* ''Table alphabétique des publications de la Société des Antiquaires de France (1939-1991)'', Paris, 1994.
* ''Mettensia. Mémoires et documents'', 7 volumes (I à VII), 1897-1919.
* ''Mettensia. Mémoires et documents'', fasc. 1-4 (VIII), 1923-1927.
* ''Centenaire 1804-1904'', Paris, 1904.
* ''Mélanges en hommage à la mémoire de François Martroye'' (1940).
* ''Mémorial d’un voyage d’études de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France en Rhénanie'' (1953)
* ''Cent-cinquantenaire de la Société'', Mémoires LXXXIII (1954).
* ''Bicentenaire 1804-2004'', Mémoires 9e série t. V, Paris, De Boccard, 2010.
* ''Bulletin de la Société impériale des Antiquaires de France'', 1852-1870
* ''Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 1870 —
Bibliography
* Nicole Belmont (édition et préface) : ''Aux sources de l’ ethnology, ethnologie française : l’Académie celtique''. Edit. du C.T.H.S., 1995, .
* BELMONT (Nicole), “L’Académie celtique et George Sand. Les débuts des recherches folkloriques en France”, ''Romantisme'', Vol. 5, n° 9, 1975, p. 29-38.
* BELMONT (Nicole), CHAMARAT (Josselyne), GLÜCK Denise et al. “L’Académie celtique”, in: ''Hier pour demain. Arts, Traditions et Patrimoine, catalogue d’exposition du Grand-Palais, 13 juin-1er septembre 1980'', Paris, RNM, 1980, p. 54-77.
* DURRY (Marie-Jeanne), “L’Académie celtique et la chanson populaire”, ''Revue de littérature comparée'', tome IX, 1929, p. 62-73.
* GAIDOZ (Henri), “De l’influence de l’Académie celtique sur les études de folk-lore”, ''Recueil du Centenaire de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France, 1804-1904'', p. 135-143.
* OZOUF (Mona), “L’invention de l’ethnographie française : le questionnaire de l’Académie celtique”, ''Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales'', Vol. 36, n° 2, 1981, p. 210-230.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Societe des Antiquaires de France
1804 establishments in France
Archaeological organizations
Archaeology of France
Celtic studies
Historical societies of France