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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 ...
(French Academy) by seat number. The primary professions of the
academician An academician is a full member of an artistic, literary, engineering, or scientific academy. In many countries, it is an honorific title used to denote a full member of an academy that has a strong influence on national scientific life. In syst ...
s are noted. The dates shown indicate the terms of the members, who generally serve for life. Some, however, were "excluded" during the reorganisations of 1803 and 1816 and at other times.


Seat 1

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Pierre Séguier Pierre Séguier (; 28 May 1588 – 28 January 1672) was a French statesman, chancellor of France from 1635. Biography Early years Séguier was born in Paris to a prominent legal family originating in Quercy. His grandfather, Pierre Séguier (15 ...
, 1635–1643, politician and magistrate #
Claude Bazin de Bezons Claude Bazin de Bezons (; 1617 – 20 March 1684) was a French lawyer, politician, and second holder of l' Académie française, seat 1. Biography Bazin de Bezons was born in Paris, France. His grandfather, Claude Bazin, married Marie Chantere ...
, 1643–1684, lawyer #
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (; 1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), often known simply as Boileau (, ), was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the ...
, 1684–1711, poet #
Jean d'Estrées Jean d'Estrées (; 1666 – 3 March 1718) was a French priest and politician. He was the son of Jean II d'Estrées and his wife Marie Marguerite Morin. He was born in Paris, the nephew of Cardinal César d'Estrées and brother of Marshal Victo ...
, 1711–1718, ecclesiastic and politician # Marc-René d'Argenson, 1718–1721, politician #
Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy (; 25 August 1677 – 11 May 1753) was a French ecclesiastic and theologian. He was first bishop of Soissons, then a member of the ''Académie française'', and finally archbishop of Sens. Biography Son of the publi ...
, 1721–1753, ecclesiastic #
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste. His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including two prominent Fr ...
, 1753–1788, essayist #
Félix Vicq-d'Azyr Félix Vicq d'Azyr (; 23 April 1748 – 20 June 1794) was a French physician and anatomist, the originator of comparative anatomy and discoverer of the theory of homology in biology. Biography Vicq d'Azyr was born in Valognes, Normandy, the son o ...
, 1788–1794, medical doctor # François-Urbain Domergue, 1803–1810, grammarian # Ange-François Fariau, 1810, poet and translator # François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison, 1811–1834, poet #
Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy (; 11 June 1795 – 16 December 1856) was a French politician. He was born at Condom, Gers of a poor family of Irish extraction. He joined the army in 1813, and in the following year joined the household troops of L ...
, 1835–1856, politician and historian #
Émile Augier Guillaume Victor Émile Augier (; 17 September 182025 October 1889) was a French dramatist. He was the thirteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française on 31 March 1857. Biography Augier was born at Valence, Drôme Valence (, ...
, 1857–1889, poet and playwright #
Charles de Freycinet Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (; 14 November 1828 – 14 May 1923) was a French statesman and four times Prime Minister during the Third Republic. He also served an important term as Minister of War (1888–1893). He belonged to the Opp ...
, 1890–1923, politician and physicist #
Charles Émile Picard Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was ...
, 1924–1941, mathematician #
Louis de Broglie Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (, also , or ; 15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987) was a French physicist and aristocrat who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory. In his 1924 PhD thesis, he postulated the wave na ...
, 1944–1987, physicist and mathematician #
Michel Debré Michel Jean-Pierre Debré (; 15 January 1912 – 2 August 1996) was the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France. He served under President Charles de Gaulle from 1959 ...
, 1988–1996, politician #
François Furet François Furet (; 27 March 1927 – 12 July 1997) was a French historian and president of the Saint-Simon Foundation, best known for his books on the French Revolution. From 1985 to 1997, Furet was a professor of French history at the University ...
, 1997, historian #
René Rémond René Rémond (; 30 September 1918 – 14 April 2007) was a French historian, political scientist and political economist. Born in Lons-le-Saunier, Rémond was the Secretary General of Jeunesses étudiantes Catholiques (JEC France in 1943) and a ...
, 1998–2007, historian # Claude Dagens, elected 2008, ecclesiastic


Seat 2

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Valentin Conrart Valentin Conrart (; 1603 – 23 September 1675) was a French author, and as a founder of the Académie française, the first occupant of seat 2. Biography He was born in Paris of Calvinist parents, and was educated for business. However, afte ...
, 1634–1675, poet and grammarian # Toussaint Rose, 1675–1701, orator # Louis de Sacy, 1701–1727, lawyer #
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (; ; 18 January 168910 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher. He is the princip ...
, 1728–1755, magistrate and philosopher #
Jean-Baptiste Vivien de Châteaubrun Jean-Baptiste Vivien de Châteaubrun (; 1686 – 16 February 1775) was a French dramatist A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, pl ...
, 1755–1775, poet and playwright #
François-Jean de Chastellux François Jean de Beauvoir, Marquis de Chastellux (; 5 May 1734, in Paris – 24 October 1788, in Paris), was a military officer who served during the War of American Independence as a major general in the French expeditionary forces led by gener ...
, 1775–1788, military officer # Aimar-Charles-Marie de Nicolaï, 1788–1794, magistrate #
François de Neufchâteau François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters" * Francis II of France, King o ...
, 1803–1828, politician and philologist #
Pierre-Antoine Lebrun Pierre-Antoine Lebrun (; 29 November 1785 – 27 May 1873) was a French poet. Biography Lebrun was born in Paris. An ''Ode à la grande armée'', mistaken at the time for the work of Écouchard Lebrun, attracted Napoleon's attention, and secur ...
, 1828–1873, politician and poet #
Alexandre Dumas, fils Alexandre Dumas (; 27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel ''La Dame aux Camélias'' (''The Lady of the Camellias''), published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's 1 ...
, 1874–1895, playwright and novelist #
André Theuriet Claude Adhémar André Theuriet (; 8 October 1833 in Marly-le-Roi – 23 April 1907 in Bourg-la-Reine) was a 19th-century French poet and novelist. Life Theuriet was born at Marly-le-Roi ( Seine et Oise), and was educated at Bar-le-Duc in his ...
, 1896–1907, novelist and poet #
Jean Richepin Jean Richepin (; 4 February 1849 – 12 December 1926) was a French poet, novelist and dramatist. Biography Son of an army doctor, Jean Richepin was born 4 February 1849 at Médéa, French Algeria. At school and at the École Normale Supér ...
, 1908–1926, poet and novelist #
Émile Mâle Émile Mâle (; 2 June 1862 – 6 October 1954) was a French art historian, one of the first to study medieval, mostly sacral French art and the influence of Eastern European iconography thereon. He was a member of the Académie française, and a ...
, 1927–1954, art historian #
François Albert-Buisson François Albert-Buisson (; 3 May 1881, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme – 21 May 1961, Aix-en-Provence) was a French entrepreneur, industrial, consular magistrate, economist, politician, historian. Background François Albert-Buisson was born in 1881 ...
, 1955–1961, magistrate and politician #
Marc Boegner Marc Boegner, commonly known as ''pasteur'' Boegner (; 21 February 1881 – 18 December 1970), was a theologian, pastor, essayist, notable member of the French Resistance and a notable voice in the ecumenical movement. Biography Marc Boegner w ...
, 1962–1970, ecclesiastic and theologian # René de La Croix de Castries, 1972–1986, historian # André Frossard, 1987–1995, essayist and journalist #
Hector Bianciotti Hector Bianciotti (; 18 March 1930 – 12 June 2012) was an Argentine-born French author and member of the Académie française. Biography Born Héctor Bianciotti (, ) in Calchín Oeste in Córdoba Province, Argentina, Bianciotti's parents were ...
, 1996–2012, novelist #
Dany Laferrière Dany Laferrière (born Windsor Kléber Laferrière, 13 April 1953) is a Haitian-Canadian novelist and journalist who writes in French. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française on 12 December 2013, and inducted in May 2015. Life Bo ...
, elected 2013, writer


Seat 3

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Jacques de Serisay Jacques de Serisay (1594 – November 1653) was a French poet, intendant of the duc de La Rochefoucauld, and the founding director of the Académie française. He was born in Paris, and was director of the Académie from 1634 to 11 January 1 ...
, 1634–1653, poet # Paul-Philippe de Chaumont, 1654–1697, ecclesiastic # Louis Cousin, 1697–1707, historian and journalist # Jacques-Louis de Valon, marquis de Mimeure, 1707–1719, poet and translator # Nicolas Gédoyn, 1719–1744, ecclesiastic #
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, comte de Lyonnais (22 May 1715 – 3 November 1794) was a French cardinal and diplomat. He was the sixth member elected to occupy Seat 3 of the Académie française in 1744. Bernis was one of the most pro ...
, 1744–1794, ecclesiastic #
Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard (; 20 September 1742 – 10 May 1822) was a French abbé and instructor of the deaf. Born at Le Fousseret, in the ancient Province of Languedoc (now the Department of Haute-Garonne), and educated as a priest, Sicard w ...
, 1803–1822, ecclesiastic and grammarian #
Denis-Luc Frayssinous Denis-Antoine-Luc, comte de Frayssinous (9 May 176512 December 1841) was a French prelate and statesman, orator and writer. He was the eighth member elected to occupy Seat 3 of the Académie Française in 1822. Biography De Frayssinous was born ...
, 1822–1841, ecclesiastic #
Étienne-Denis Pasquier Étienne-Denis, duc de Pasquier (21 April 17675 July 1862), ''Chancelier de France'', (a title revived for him by Louis-Philippe in 1837), was a French statesman. In 1842, he was elected a member of the Académie française, and in the same year ...
, 1842–1862, politician #
Jules Armand Dufaure Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure (; 4 December 1798 – 28 June 1881) was a French statesman. Biography Dufaure was born at Saujon, Charente-Maritime, and began his career as an advocate at Bordeaux, where he won a great reputation by his oratoric ...
, 1863–1881, politician and lawyer #
Victor Cherbuliez Charles Victor Cherbuliez (; 19 July 1829 – 1 or 2 July 1899)Victor Cherbuliez
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Émile Faguet Auguste Émile Faguet (; 17 December 18477 June 1916) was a French author and literary critic. Biography Faguet was born at La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée, and educated at the École normale supérieure in Paris. After teaching for some time in La R ...
, 1900–1916, literary critic and historian #
Georges Clemenceau Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (, also , ; 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A key figure of the Independent Radicals, he was a ...
, 1918–1929, politician and doctor # André Chaumeix, 1930–1955, journalist and critic #
Jérôme Carcopino Jérôme Carcopino (27 June 1881 – 17 March 1970) was a French historian and author. He was the fifteenth member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française, in 1955. Biography Carcopino was born at Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure, son of a ...
, 1955–1970, historian and archaeologist #
Roger Caillois Roger Caillois (; 3 March 1913 – 21 December 1978) was a French intellectual whose idiosyncratic work brought together literary criticism, sociology, ludology and philosophy by focusing on diverse subjects such as games and play as well as the ...
, 1971–1978, essayist and sociologist #
Marguerite Yourcenar Marguerite Yourcenar (, , ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the ''Prix Fem ...
, 1980–1987, novelist and essayist #
Jean-Denis Bredin Jean-Denis Bredin (born Jean-Denis Hirsch: 17 May 1929 – 1 September 2021) was a French attorney and founding partner of the firm Bredin Prat. He was widely admired as an author-commentator, both for his novels and for his non-fiction works ...
, 1989–2021, magistrate and essayist


Seat 4

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Jean Desmarets Jean Desmarets, Sieur de Saint-Sorlin (1595 – 28 October 1676) was a French writer and dramatist. He was a founding member, and the first to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1634. Biography Born in Paris, Desmarets was introduced ...
, 1634–1676, poet and novelist #
Jean-Jacques de Mesmes Jean-Jacques de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux, vicomte de Neufchâtel (1630–1688) was a French magistrate, intendant of Soissons, and Président à mortier of the Parlement of Paris. He developed the town of Avaux-la-Ville, which is now called Asfel ...
, 1676–1688, magistrate #
Jean Testu de Mauroy Jean Testu de Mauroy (1626, Paris – April 1706, Paris) was a French clergyman and academic. He was the member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1688. References

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, 1688–1706, ecclesiastic # Camille le Tellier de Louvois, 1706–1718, ecclesiastic #
Jean Baptiste Massillon Jean-Baptiste Massillon, CO (24 June 1663, Hyères – 28 September 1742, Beauregard-l'Évêque), was a French Catholic prelate and famous preacher who served as Bishop of Clermont from 1717 until his death. Biography Early years Massillon wa ...
, 1718–1742, ecclesiastic # Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, 1742–1798, politician and poet #
Gabriel-Marie Legouvé Gabriel Marie Jean Baptiste Legouvé (23 June 1764 – 30 August 1812) was an 18th–19th-century French poet and playwright. Legouvé was born and died in Paris, and was the seventh member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in ...
, 1803–1812, poet #
Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval (6 April 1767, in Rennes – 1 September 1842, in Paris) was a French dramatist, sailor, architect, actor, theatre manager. He was the eighth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1812. Du ...
, 1812–1842, poet and playwright #
Pierre-Simon Ballanche Pierre-Simon Ballanche (4 August 1776 – 12 June 1847) was a French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher, who elaborated a theology of progress that possessed considerable influence in French literary circles in the beginning of the ninetee ...
, 1842–1847, philosopher # Jean Vatout, 1848, poet # Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, 1849–1851, politician and historian #
Antoine Pierre Berryer Pierre-Antoine Berryer (4 January 179029 November 1868) was a French advocate and parliamentary orator. He was the twelfth member elected to occupy Seat Four of the Académie française in 1852. Biography Early years Berryer was born in Paris, t ...
, 1852–1868, lawyer # François-Joseph de Champagny, 1869–1882, historian #
Charles de Mazade Louis Charles Jean Robert de Mazade (19 March 1820, to Castelsarrasin, Tarn-et-Garonne – 27 April 1893, Paris) was a French historian, journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pict ...
, 1882–1893, poet and critic #
José-Maria de Heredia José-Maria de Heredia (22 November 1842 – 3 October 1905) was a Cuban-born French Parnassian poet. He was the fifteenth member elected for seat 4 of the Académie française in 1894. Biography Early years Heredia was born at Fortuna C ...
, 1894–1905, poet #
Maurice Barrès Auguste-Maurice Barrès (; 19 August 1862 – 4 December 1923) was a French novelist, journalist and politician. Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work ''The Cult of the Self'' in 1888. ...
, 1906–1923, novelist and politician # Louis Bertrand, 1925–1941, novelist and historian #
Jean Tharaud Jean Tharaud (9 May 1877 – 8 April 1952) was a French writer. Tharaud was born in Saint-Junien, Haute-Vienne. As a young man, he had been secretary to Maurice Barrès. He wrote books with his brother, Jérôme Tharaud, for over 50 years. In ...
, 1946–1952, novelist #
Alphonse Juin Alphonse Pierre Juin (16 December 1888 – 27 January 1967) was a senior French Army Army general (France), general who became Marshal of France. A graduate of the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, École Spéciale Militaire class of 1912, ...
, 1952–1967, soldier #
Pierre Emmanuel Noël Mathieu (3 May 1916, Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques – 22 September 1984, Paris) better known under his pseudonym Pierre Emmanuel, was a French poet of Christian inspiration. Biography He was the third member elected to occupy seat 4 of the ...
, 1968–1984, poet #
Jean Hamburger Jean Hamburger (15 July 1909 – 1 February 1992) was a French physician, surgeon and essayist. He is particularly known for his contribution to nephrology, and for having performed the first renal transplantation in France in 1952. Biography ...
, 1985–1992, doctor and essayist #
Albert Decourtray Albert Florent Augustin Decourtray Doctor of Sacred Theology, S.T.D. (9 April 1923 – 16 September 1994) was a French Cardinal (Catholicism), Catholic Cardinal and Archdiocese of Lyons, Archbishop of Lyon. Biography Early life He was born in t ...
, 1993–1994, ecclesiastic #
Jean-Marie Lustiger Aron Jean-Marie Lustiger (; 17 September 1926 – 5 August 2007) was a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Paris from 1981 until his resignation in 2005. He was made a cardinal in 1983 by Pope John Paul II. His lif ...
, 1995–2007, ecclesiastic #
Jean-Luc Marion Jean-Luc Marion (born 3 July 1946) is a French philosopher and Roman Catholic theologian. Marion is a former student of Jacques Derrida whose work is informed by patristic and mystical theology, phenomenology, and modern philosophy.Horner 2005. ...
, elected 2008, philosopher and academic


Seat 5

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Jean Ogier de Gombauld Jean Ogier de Gombauld (1576 – 1666) was a French playwright and poet. Gombauld was born in Saint-Just-Luzac, Charente-Maritime and was a Huguenot. He was one of the original members of the Académie française. He also wrote novels, but has ...
, 1634–1666, poet and playwright # Paul Tallement le Jeune, 1666–1712, ecclesiastic #
Antoine Danchet Antoine Danchet (7 September 1671 – 21 February 1748) was a French playwright, librettist and dramatic poet. Biography Danchet was born in Riom, in the Auvergne, France. Having been a professor of rhetoric at Chartres and then a tutor at Par ...
, 1712–1748, playwright and poet #
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (August 29, 1709 – June 16, 1777) was a French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem ''Vert-Vert''. Life He was born at Amiens. During the last twenty-five years of his life, he regretted the frivolity of his ...
, 1748–1777, playwright # Claude-François-Xavier Millot, 1777–1785, ecclesiastic #
André Morellet André Morellet (7 March 172712 January 1819) was a French economist, author of various writings, contributor to the and one of the last Enlightenment Age .'' Biography Born at Lyon, and educated by the Jesuits there, Morellet completed his ...
, 1785–1819, ecclesiastic # Pierre-Édouard Lémontey, 1819–1826, politician and lawyer #
Joseph Fourier Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (; ; 21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830) was a French people, French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier an ...
, 1826–1830, mathematician and physicist #
Victor Cousin Victor Cousin (; 28 November 179214 January 1867) was a French philosopher. He was the founder of "eclecticism", a briefly influential school of French philosophy that combined elements of German idealism and Scottish Common Sense Realism. As ...
, 1830–1867, politician and philosopher #
Jules Favre Jules Claude Gabriel Favre (21 March 1809 – 20 January 1880) was a French statesman and lawyer. After the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870, he became one of the leaders of the Opportunist Republicans in the National Assem ...
, 1867–1880, politician and lawyer # Edmond Rousse, 1880–1906, lawyer #
Pierre de Ségur Pierre, marquis de Ségur (13 February 1853 in Paris – 13 August 1916 in Poissy Poissy () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from th ...
, 1907–1916, historian #
Robert de Flers Robert Pellevé de La Motte-Ango, marquis de Flers (25 November 1872, Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados – 30 July 1927, Vittel) was a French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist.Pierre Barillet, ''Les Seigneurs du rire: Flers – Caillavet – ...
, 1920–1927, playwright and journalist #
Louis Madelin Louis Emile Marie Madelin (8 May 1871 – 18 August 1956) was a French historian (specialising in the French Revolution and First French Empire) and a Republican Federation deputy for Vosges from 1924 to 1928. He is buried at the Cimetière de G ...
, 1927–1956, historian # Robert Kemp, 1956–1959, literary and dramatic critic #
René Huyghe René Huyghe (3 May 1906 – 5 February 1997) was a French writer on the history, psychology and philosophy of art. He was also a curator at the Louvre's department of paintings (from 1930), a professor at the Collège de France and from 1960 a ...
, 1960–1997, art historian and essayist # Georges Vedel, 1998–2002, magistrate #
Assia Djebar Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015), known by her pen name Assia Djebar ( ar, آسيا جبار), was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted fo ...
, 2005–2015, author #
Andreï Makine Andreï Sergueïevitch Makine (russian: Андрей Серге́евич Макин; born 10 September 1957) is a French novelist. He also publishes under the pseudonym Gabriel Osmonde.François le Métel de Boisrobert François le Métel de Boisrobert (1 August 1592 – 30 March 1662) was a French poet, playwright, and courtier. Life He was born in Caen. He trained as a lawyer, later practising for a time in Rouen. He traveled to Paris in 1622 and establis ...
, 1634–1662, ecclesiastic and poet #
Jean Regnault de Segrais Jean Regnault de Segrais (22 August 1624, Caen – 25 March 1701) was a French poet and novelist born in Caen. He was elected a member of the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημ ...
, 1662–1701, poet and novelist #
Jean Galbert de Campistron Jean Galbert de Campistron (3 August 1656 – 11 May 1723) was a French dramatist. Biography Campistron was born in Toulouse, France to a noble family. At the age of seventeen he was wounded in a duel and sent to Paris. Here he became an ardent d ...
, 1701–1723, playwright #
Philippe Néricault Destouches Philippe Néricault Destouches (9 April 1680 – 4 July 1754) was a French playwright who wrote 22 plays. Biography Destouches was born at Tours, in today's department of Indre-et-Loire. When he was nineteen years of age, he became secretary to ...
, 1723–1754, playwright and diplomat #
Louis de Boissy Louis de Boissy (26 November 1694, Vic-sur-Cère – 19 April 1758, Paris) was an 18th-century French poet and playwright. He was elected to seat 6 of the Académie française on 12 August 1754. He wrote satires and several comedies, of which th ...
, 1754–1758, poet # Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, 1758–1781, archaeologist # Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas (Chamfort), 1781–1794, playwright and publisher #
Pierre Louis Roederer Comte Pierre Louis Roederer (15 February 1754 – 17 December 1835) was a French politician, economist, and historian, politically active in the era of the French Revolution and First French Republic. Roederer's son, Baron Antoine Marie Roed ...
, 1803–1815, politician and lawyer #
Pierre Marc Gaston de Lévis, Duke of Lévis Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis (7 March 1764, Paris – 15 February 1830), second duke of Lévis, peer of France, was a French politician, aphorist and député to the National Constituent Assembly. His father was the first duke of Lévis, m ...
, 1816–1830, politician #
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, 1830–1873, diplomat and historian # Charles de Viel-Castel, 1873–1887, diplomat # Edmond Jurien de La Gravière, 1888–1892, admiral #
Ernest Lavisse Ernest Lavisse (; 17 December 184218 August 1922) was a French historian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Biography He was born at Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, Aisne. In 1865 he obtained a fellowship in history, and ...
, 1892–1922, historian #
Georges de Porto-Riche Georges de Porto-Riche (20 May 1849, Bordeaux, Gironde – 5 September 1930, Paris) was a French dramatist and novelist. Biography Georges was born into a Jewish-Italian assimilated family. At the age of twenty, his pieces in verse began to b ...
, 1923–1930, playwright and poet # Pierre Benoît, 1931–1962, novelist #
Jean Paulhan Jean Paulhan (2 December 1884 – 9 October 1968) was a French writer, literary critic and publisher, director of the literary magazine ''Nouvelle Revue Française'' (NRF) from 1925 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1968. He was a member (Seat 6, 1963–68 ...
, 1963–1968, literary and art critic #
Eugène Ionesco Eugène Ionesco (; born Eugen Ionescu, ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco inst ...
, 1970–1994, playwright #
Marc Fumaroli Marc Fumaroli (10 June 1932 – 24 June 2020) was a French historian and essayist who was widely respected as an advocate for French literature and culture. While born in Marseille, Fumaroli grew up in the Moroccan city of Fez, and served in th ...
, 1995–2020, historian and essayist


Seat 7

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Jean Chapelain Jean Chapelain (4 December 1595 – 22 February 1674) was a French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle, best known for his role as an organizer and founding member of the Académie française. Chapelain acquired considerable prestige as a l ...
, 1634–1674, royal advisor #
Isaac de Benserade Isaac de Benserade (; baptized 5 November 161310 October 1691) was a French poet. Born in Lyons-la-Forêt, Normandy, his family appears to have been connected with Richelieu, who bestowed on him a pension of 600 ''livres''. He began his liter ...
, 1674–1691, poet and playwright #
Étienne Pavillon Étienne Pavillon (1632 – 10 January 1705) was a French lawyer and poet. Biography Grandson of a famous lawyer and nephew of bishop Nicolas Pavillon, Pavillon was born and died in Paris. He first studied theology before renouncing this ...
, 1691–1705, lawyer and poet # Fabio Brulart de Sillery, 1705–1714, ecclesiastic and poet #
Henri-Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force Henri-Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force (5 March 1675 – 20 July 1726) was a French nobleman and peer, the son of Jacques-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force and Suzanne de Beringhen. He was a member of the Académie française. Marria ...
, 1715–1726, economist #
Jean-Baptiste de Mirabaud Jean-Baptiste de Mirabaud (1675, Paris – 24 June 1760, Paris) was a French writer and translator. His life and work He studied with the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, Oratorians and fought at the battle of Steenkerque in 1692. A friend of Jean d ...
, 1726–1760, translator #
Claude-Henri Watelet Claude-Henri Watelet (28 August 1718 – 12 January 1786) was a rich French '' fermier-général'' who was an amateur painter, a well-respected etcher, a writer on the arts and a connoisseur of gardens. Watelet's inherited privilege of farming t ...
, 1760–1786, painter #
Michel-Jean Sedaine Michel-Jean Sedaine (2 June 1719 – 17 May 1797) was a French dramatist and librettist, especially noted for his librettos for '' opéras comiques'', in which he took an important and influential role in the advancement of the genre from th ...
, 1786–1793, poet and playwright #
Jean-François Collin d'Harleville Jean-François Collin d'Harleville (30 May 1755 – 24 February 1806) was a French dramatist. He was born at Maintenon (Eure-et-Loir). His first dramatic success was ''L'Inconstant'', a comedy accepted by the Comédie Française in 1780, but not ...
, 1803–1806, playwright and poet #
Pierre Daru Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno, Comte de Daru (12 January 1767 – 5 September 1829) was a French soldier, statesman, historian, and poet. Early career Born in Montpellier, he was educated at the Oratorian-maintained military school of Tou ...
, 1806–1829, politician and historian #
Alphonse de Lamartine Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (; 21 October 179028 February 1869), was a French author, poet, and statesman who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the Tricolore as the flag of France. ...
, 1829–1869, politician and poet #
Émile Ollivier Olivier Émile Ollivier (; 2 July 182520 August 1913) was a French statesman. Starting as an avid republican opposed to Emperor Napoleon III, he pushed the Emperor toward liberal reforms and in turn came increasingly into Napoleon's grip. He en ...
, 1870–1913, politician and lawyer #
Henri Bergson Henri-Louis Bergson (; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopherHenri Bergson. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 13 August 2014, from https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/61856/Henri-Bergson
, 1914–1941, philosopher #
Édouard Le Roy Édouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy (; 18 June 1870 in Paris – 10 November 1954 in Paris) was a French philosopher and mathematician. Life Le Roy entered the ''École Normale Supérieure'' in 1892, and received the '' agrégation'' in mathe ...
, 1945–1954, philosopher and mathematician # Henri Petiot (Daniel-Rops), 1955–1965, poet and novelist #
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 ...
, 1966–1972, literary historian and novelist #
André Roussin André Roussin, (22 January 1911 – 3 November 1987), was a French playwright. Born in Marseille, he was elected to the Académie française on 12 April 1973. Bibliography *1933 ''Patiences et impatiences'' *1944 ''Am Stram Gram'' *1945 ''U ...
, 1973–1987, playwright #
Jacqueline de Romilly Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (; née David, Greek: Ζακλίν ντε Ρομιγύ, 26 March 1913 – 18 December 2010) was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. She was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, an ...
, 1988–2010, philologist and essayist #
Jules Hoffmann Jules A. Hoffmann (; born 2 August 1941) is a Luxembourg-born French biologist. During his youth, growing up in Luxembourg, he developed a strong interest in insects under the influence of his father, Jos Hoffmann. This eventually resulted in the y ...
, elected 2012, biologist


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Claude de Malleville Claude Malleville, born in Paris probably between 1594 and 1596 and died in the same city in 1647, was a French poet. He became one of the first members of the Académie Française in 1634. His life Knowledge about Claude Malleville's life was ...
, 1634–1647, poet #
Jean Ballesdens Jean Ballesdens (1595 in Paris – 1675 in Paris) was a French lawyer, editor and bibliophile, though he has left practically no writings. He is the first known collector of books with historic bindings. Biography A lawyer to the parlement de Pari ...
, 1648–1675, lawyer #
Géraud de Cordemoy Géraud de Cordemoy (6 October 1626 in Paris – 15 October 1684 in Paris) was a French philosopher, historian and lawyer. He is mainly known for his works in metaphysics and for his theory of language. Biography Géraud de Cordemoy was born ...
, 1675–1684, philosopher and historian #
Jean-Louis Bergeret Jean-Louis Bergeret (11 December 1641, Paris – 9 October 1694) was an early holder of the 8th seat of the Académie française. Bergeret was Advocate General to the Metz Parliament in 1672, and became the first deputy of Charles Colbert, m ...
, 1684–1694, lawyer #
Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre Charles-Irénée Castel, abbé de Saint-Pierre (18 February 1658 – 29 April 1743) was a French author whose ideas were novel for his times. His proposal of an international organisation to maintain peace was perhaps the first in history, wi ...
, 1694–1743, ecclesiastic #
Pierre Louis Maupertuis Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (; ; 1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the ...
, 1743–1759, astronomer #
Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan Jean-Jacques Lefranc (also Le Franc), Marquis de Pompignan (10 August 1709 – 1 November 1784) was a French man of letters and erudition, who published a considerable output of theatrical work, poems, literary criticism, and polemics; treatises o ...
, 1759–1784, magistrate and economist #
Jean-Sifrein Maury Jean-Sifrein Maury (; 26 June 1746 – 10 May 1817) was a French cardinal, archbishop of Paris, and former bishop of Montefiascone. Biography The son of a cobbler, he was born at Valréas in the Comtat-Venaissin, the enclave within France that ...
, 1784–1793, ecclesiastic and politician #
Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély Michel Louis Etienne Regnaud, later 1st Count Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély (3 December 1761, Saint-Fargeau – 11 March 1819, Paris) was a French politician. Biography Early activities He was a lawyer in Paris and lieutenant of the maritim ...
, 1803–1814, politician and lawyer #
Pierre-Simon Laplace Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (; ; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. He summarized ...
, 1816–1827, politician and mathematician #
Pierre Paul Royer-Collard Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (21 June 1763 – 2 September 1845) was a French statesman and philosopher, leader of the Doctrinaires group during the Bourbon Restoration (1814–1830). Biography Early life He was born at Sompuis, near Vitry-le-Franç ...
, 1827–1845, politician #
Charles de Rémusat Charles François Marie, Comte de Rémusat (, 13 March 1797 – 6 June 1875), was a French politician and writer. Biography He was born in Paris. His father, Auguste Laurent, Comte de Rémusat, whose family came from Toulouse, was chamberlai ...
, 1846–1875, politician and philosopher #
Jules Simon Jules François Simon (; 31 December 1814 – 8 June 1896) was a French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leaders of the Moderate Republicans in the Third French Republic. Biography Simon was born at Lorient. His father was a linen-dra ...
, 1875–1896, politician and philosopher #
Adrien Albert Marie de Mun Adrien Albert Marie, Comte de Mun (, 28 February 18416 October 1914), was a French political figure and Social Reformer of the nineteenth century. Biography Early years Albert was born at Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux, Seine-et-Marne, son of the Marqu ...
, 1897–1914, politician and soldier #
Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart, Orat. (6 January 1859 – 19 May 1942) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church, who became a Cardinal in 1935. An historian and writer, he served as Rector of the Institut Catholique de Paris from 1907 until hi ...
, 1918–1942, ecclesiastic and historian #
Octave Aubry Octave Aubry (1 September 1881, Paris – 27 March 1946) was a French novelist and historian. Biography Aubry, Ernest Seillière, Jean Tharaud, René Grousset and Robert d'Harcourt were the five members of the Académie française elected on 1 ...
, 1946–1946, historian and bureaucrat #
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 ...
, 1946–1957, politician and literary historian #
Jean Rostand Jean Edmond Cyrus Rostand (30 October 1894, Paris – 4 September 1977, Ville-d'Avray) was a French biologist, historian of science, and philosopher. Active as an experimental biologist, Rostand became famous for his work as a science writer, as ...
, 1959–1977, biologist and philosopher #
Michel Déon Michel Déon (; 4 August 1919 – 28 December 2016) was a French novelist and literary columnist. He published over 50 works and was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Interallié for his 1970 novel, '' Les Poneys sauvages'' (Th ...
, 1978–2016, novelist #
Daniel Rondeau Daniel Rondeau (born 7 May 1948) is a French writer, editor, and diplomat. Born in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, he studied law at Panthéon-Assas where the spirit of May 68 saw him embrace Maoism and join the proletariat by working from 1970 to 1974 i ...
, elected 2019, writer and diplomat


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# Nicolas Faret, 1634–1646, poet #
Pierre du Ryer Pierre du Ryer (c.1606 – 6 November 1658) was a French dramatist. Life and works Du Ryer was born in Paris in about 1606. His early comedies are loosely modelled on those of Alexandre Hardy, but after the production of the ''Cid'' (1636) he b ...
, 1646–1658, playwright # César d'Estrées, 1658–1714, ecclesiastic and politician #
Victor-Marie d'Estrées Victor-Marie d'Estrées, Duke of Estrées count then duke (1723) of Estrées (30 November 1660, Paris – 27 December 1737, Paris) was a Marshal of France and subsequently known as the ''"Maréchal d'Estrées''". Biography Son of Marshal Jea ...
, 1715–1737, politician and soldier #
Charles Armand René de La Trémoille Charles Armand René de La Trémoille (14 January 1708, in Paris – 23 May 1741), 6th duc de Thouars, was the son of Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille and his wife, Marie Madeleine Motier de la Fayette. La Trémoille was a French soldie ...
, 1738–1741, aristocrat #
Armand de Rohan-Soubise François-Armand-Auguste de Rohan-Soubise, Prince of Tournon, Prince of Rohan (1 December 1717, Paris – 28 June 1756, Saverne) was a French prelate, Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg. His parents, Anne Julie de Melun and Jules, Prince de Soubise ...
, 1741–1756, ecclesiastic #
Antoine de Montazet Antoine de Montazet (17 August 1713 – 2 May 1788) was a French theologian, of Jansenist tendencies, who became bishop of Autun and archbishop of Lyon. He was elected to the Académie française in 1756, but did not produce significant literary ...
, 1756–1788, ecclesiastic # Stanislas de Boufflers, 1788–1815, poet # Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian, 1815–1854, poet and playwright #
François Ponsard François Ponsard (1 June 1814 – 7 July 1867) was a French dramatist, poet and author and was a member of the Académie française. Biography Ponsard was born at Vienne, Isère in 1814 and trained as a lawyer. His first literary work w ...
, 1855–1867, playwright #
Joseph Autran Joseph Autran (20 June 1813 – 6 March 1877) was a French poet. Biography Autran was born in Marseille. In 1832 he addressed an ode to Alphonse de Lamartine, who was then at Marseille on his way to the East. Lamartine persuaded the young man's f ...
, 1868–1877, poet #
Victorien Sardou Victorien Sardou ( , ; 5 September 18318 November 1908) was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play. He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-centur ...
, 1877–1908, playwright #
Marcel Prévost Eugène Marcel Prévost (1 May 18628 April 1941) was a French author and dramatist. Biography Prévost was born in Paris on 1 May 1862, and educated at Jesuit schools in Bordeaux and Paris, entering the École polytechnique in 1882. He publis ...
, 1909–1941, novelist # Émile Henriot, 1945–1961, novelist and literary critic #
Jean Guéhenno Jean Guéhenno born Marcel-Jules-Marie Guéhenno (25 March 1890 – 22 September 1978) was a French essayist, writer and literary critic. Life and career Jean Guéhenno, writer and educator, was a prominent contributor to the NRF. He was edito ...
, 1962–1978, essayist #
Alain Decaux Alain Decaux (23 July 1925 − 27 March 2016) was a French historian. He was elected to the Académie française on 15 February 1979. In 2005, he was, with others authors as Frédéric Beigbeder, Mohamed Kacimi, Richard Millet and Jean-Pierre Th ...
, 1979–2016, historian # Patrick Grainville, elected 2018, novelist


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Antoine Godeau Antoine Godeau (24 September 1605, in Dreux – 21 April 1672, in Vence) was a French bishop, poet and exegete. He is now known for his work of criticism ''Discours de la poésie chrétienne'' from 1633. Biography His verse-writing early won the ...
, 1634–1672, ecclesiastic and poet #
Esprit Fléchier Esprit Fléchier (10 June 163216 February 1710) was a French preacher and author, Bishop of Nîmes from 1687 to 1710. Biography Fléchier was born at Pernes-les-Fontaines, in today's ''département'' of Vaucluse, in the then Comtat Venaissin, ...
, 1672–1710, ecclesiastic # Henri de Nesmond, 1710–1727, ecclesiastic #
Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou (, 30 April 1689 – 7 May 1749, Paris) was a French politician. He was marquis of Combrande, baron de Châtillon-sur-Indre, seigneur de Chaillou. Biography From a family of magistrates, he was in turn made avocat ...
, 1727–1749, politician # Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, 1749–1761, politician and soldier #
Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet Nicolas Charles Joseph Trublet (; 4 December 1697, Saint-Malo – 14 March 1770, Saint-Malo) was a French churchman (canon of Saint-Malo) and moralist, best known for his clash with Voltaire, whose '' La Henriade'' he critiqued. A "chiffonnier de ...
, 1761–1770, ecclesiastic #
Jean François de Saint-Lambert Jean François de Saint-Lambert (; 26 December 1716 – 9 February 1803) was a French poet, philosopher and military officer. Biography Saint-Lambert was born at Nancy and raised on his parents' estate at Affracourt, a village in Lorraine near ...
, 1770–1793, poet and philosopher #
Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano Hugues-Bernard Maret (, 1 May 1763 – 13 May 1839), 1st Duke of Bassano (''Duc de Bassano''), was a French statesman, diplomat and journalist. Biography Early career Maret was born in Dijon, in the province of Burgundy, as the second son o ...
, 1803–1815, politician and diplomat #
Joseph Lainé Joseph Henri Joachim, vicomte Lainé (11 November 1768 – 17 December 1835), was a French lawyer and politician. Born in Bordeaux, he became a successful lawyer in Paris. In 1793 he was named administrator of the district of La Réole, returning ...
, 1816–1835, politician and magistrate #
Emmanuel Dupaty Louis Emmanuel Dupaty (31 July 1775 – 30 July 1851) was a French playwright, naval officer, chansonnier, journalist and administrator of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. His brother was the sculptor Louis Dupaty. Works ;Theatre * ''Figaro, ...
, 1836–1851, poet and playwright #
Alfred de Musset Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.His names are often reversed "Louis Charles Alfred de Musset": see "(Louis Charles) Alfred de Musset" (bio), Biography.com, 2007 ...
, 1852–1857, playwright and poet #
Victor de Laprade Pierre Martin Victor Richard de Laprade (13 January 181213 December 1883), known as Victor de Laprade, was a French poet and critic. Biography He was born at Montbrison, Loire, of a modest provincial family. After completing his studies at Lyon, ...
, 1858–1883, poet #
François Coppée François Edouard Joachim Coppée (26 January 1842 – 23 May 1908) was a French poet and novelist. Biography Coppée was born in Paris to a civil servant. After attending the Lycée Saint-Louis he became a clerk in the ministry of war and won ...
, 1884–1908, poet and novelist #
Jean Aicard Jean François Victor Aicard (4 February 1848 – 13 May 1921) was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist. Biography He was born in Toulon. His father, Jean Aicard, was a journalist of some distinction, and the son began his career in 1867 wit ...
, 1909–1921, poet and novelist #
Camille Jullian Camille Jullian (15 March 1859 – 12 December 1933) was a French historian, philologist, archaeologist and historian of literature. A Professor of ancient history and classics at the University of Bordeaux from 1891, Jullian was awarded a chai ...
, 1924–1933, historian and philologist #
Léon Bérard Léon Bérard (6 January 1876, Sauveterre-de-Béarn – 24 February 1960 in Saint-Étienne) was a French politician and lawyer. Bérard was Minister of Public Instruction in 1919 and from 1921 to 1924, and Minister of Justice from 1931 to 1932 ...
, 1934–1960, politician and lawyer #
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 ...
, 1961–1999, theologian and philosopher #
Florence Delay Florence Delay (born 19 March 1941 in Paris) is a French academician and actress. Biography The daughter of Marie-Madeleine Carrez and Jean Delay, Delay studied at the Lycée Jean de La Fontaine and then the Sorbonne. In 1962, she played the ti ...
, elected 2000, novelist and playwright


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Philippe Habert Philippe Habert (1604 – 26 July 1637) was a French poet. Habert was born in Paris and was the brother to Germain Habert and cousin of Henri Louis Habert de Montmor, as well as a friend of Valentin Conrart. Philippe was also one of the first me ...
, 1634–1638, poet # Jacques Esprit, 1639–1678, politician #
Jacques-Nicolas Colbert Jacques-Nicolas Colbert (14 February 1655, in Paris – 10 December 1707, in Paris) was a French churchman. Youngest son of Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, he was educated for a career in the church, tutored by Noël Alexandre, a Dominican the ...
, 1678–1707, ecclesiastic # Claude-François Fraguier, 1707–1728, ecclesiastic #
Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin (5 August 1691, in Paris – 17 July 1744) was a French churchman, writer, scholar, numismatist and theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious bel ...
, 1728–1744, ecclesiastic # Gabriel Girard, 1744–1748, ecclesiastic # Marc-Antoine-René de Voyer d'Argenson de Paulmy, 1748–1787, politician #
Henri-Cardin-Jean-Baptiste d'Aguesseau Henri-Cardin-Jean-Baptiste d'Aguesseau, Marquis d'Aguesseau (23 August 1752, in Paris22 January 1826), grandson of the French chancellor Henri François d'Aguesseau, was ''advocate-general'' in the '' parlement'' of Paris and deputy in the Estat ...
, 1787–1826, politician # Charles Brifaut, 1826–1857, poet and playwright #
Jules Sandeau Léonard Sylvain Julien (Jules) Sandeau (; 19 February 1811 – 24 April 1883) was a French novelist. Early life Sandeau was born at Aubusson (Creuse), and was sent to Paris to study law, but spent much of his time in unruly behaviour with oth ...
, 1858–1883, novelist and playwright #
Edmond François Valentin About Edmond François Valentin About (14 February 182816 January 1885) was a French novelist, publicist and journalist. Biography About was born at Dieuze, in the Moselle ''département'' in the Lorraine region of France. In 1848 he entered the Éc ...
, 1884–1885, novelist and playwright #
Léon Say Jean-Baptiste-Léon Say (6 June 1826, Paris – 21 April 1896, Paris) was a French statesman and diplomat. One of the 19th-century's noted economists, he served as French Finance Minister from 1872 until 1883. Biography The Say family is a mos ...
, 1886–1896, politician and economist # Albert Vandal, 1896–1910, historian #
Denys Cochin Baron Denys Marie Pierre Augustin Cochin (1 September 1851 in Paris – 24 March 1922 in Paris) was a French writer and Catholic right-wing politician. Denys Cochin was the son of Pierre-Suzanne-Augustin Cochin, also a politician and writer. ...
, 1911–1922, politician #
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 ...
, 1922–1939, historian #
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 ...
, 1940–1944, historian and philosopher #
Maurice Garçon Maurice Garçon (25 November 1889 in Lille – 29 December 1967 in Paris) was a French novelist, historian, essayist and lawyer. A major figure at the bar, he gained a certain notoriety and was even mentioned with René Floriot in the last phra ...
, 1946–1967, lawyer, novelist and historian #
Paul Morand Paul Morand (13 March 1888 – 24 July 1976) was a French author whose short stories and novellas were lauded for their style, wit and descriptive power. His most productive literary period was the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s. He was mu ...
, 1968–1976, diplomat, novelist, playwright and poet #
Alain Peyrefitte Alain Peyrefitte (; 26 August 1925 – 27 November 1999) was a French scholar and politician. He was a confidant of Charles de Gaulle and had a long career in public service, serving as a diplomat in Germany and Poland. Peyrefitte is remembered ...
, 1977–1999, scholar and politician #
Gabriel de Broglie Gabriel-Marie-Joseph-Anselme de Broglie-Revel (born 21 April 1931) is a French historian and politician. Broglie-Revel was elected to the Académie française in 2001, replacing Alain Peyrefitte. He is a Knight Commander of the Légion d'honneu ...
, elected 2001, historian


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Germain Habert Germain Habert de Cérisy (1610 – May 1654) was a French churchman and poet. He was abbot of Saint-Vigor. Germain Habert was born in Paris. He was the cousin of Henri Louis Habert de Montmor, brother of Philippe Habert and like Philippe a ...
, 1634–1654, ecclesiastic # Charles Cotin, 1655–1681, ecclesiastic #
Louis de Courcillon Louis de Courcillon, known as the abbot, abbé de Dangeau (January 1643, in Paris – 1 January 1723, in Paris) was a French churchman and grammarian, best known for being the first to describe the nasal vowels in the French language. Originally a ...
, 1682–1723, ecclesiastic and politician # Charles Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau, 1723–1732, politician #
Jean Terrasson Jean Terrasson (31 January 1670 – 15 September 1750), often referred to as the Abbé Terrasson, was a French priest, author and member of the Académie française. The erudite Antoine Terrasson was his nephew. Life Jean Terrasson, born in Lyo ...
, 1732–1750, ecclesiastic and philosopher # Claude de Thiard de Bissy, 1750–1810, soldier # Joseph-Alphonse Esménard, 1810–1811, politician #
Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle, (3 September 1766 – 26 March 1855), was a French historian and journalist. Called Lacretelle le jeune to distinguish him from his elder brother, Pierre Louis de Lacretelle. He was born at Metz. He was ...
, 1811–1855, historian #
Jean-Baptiste Biot Jean-Baptiste Biot (; ; 21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who co-discovered the Biot–Savart law of magnetostatics with Félix Savart, established the reality of meteorites, made an early ba ...
, 1856–1862, scientist and mathematician # Louis de Carné, 1863–1876, historian and politician #
Charles Blanc Charles Blanc (17 November 1813, Castres (Tarn) – 17 January 1882, Paris) was a French art critic. Life and career He was the younger brother of the French socialist politician and historian Louis Blanc. After the February Revolution of 184 ...
, 1876–1882, art critic # Édouard Pailleron, 1882–1899, poet and playwright #
Paul Hervieu Paul Hervieu (2 September 185725 October 1915) was a French novelist and playwright. Early years He was born Paul-Ernest Hervieu in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Hervieu was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family. He studied law, but so ...
, 1900–1915, novelist and playwright #
François, Vicomte de Curel François, Vicomte de Curel (10 June 1854 – 26 April 1928), France, French dramatist, was born at Metz, Moselle. Biography He was educated at the École centrale Paris as a civil engineer, the family wealth being derived from smelting works. H ...
, 1918–1928, playwright #
Charles Le Goffic Charles Le Goffic (14 July 1863 – 12 February 1932) was a Breton poet, novelist and historian whose influence was especially strong in his native Brittany. He was a member of the Académie française. Biography Born in Lannion, northern Brit ...
, 1930–1932, novelist and historian #
Abel Bonnard Abel Bonnard (19 December 1883 31 May 1968) was a French poet, novelist and politician. Biography Born in Poitiers, Vienne, his early education was in Marseilles with secondary studies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. A student of literatu ...
, 1932–1945, poet, novelist and politician; expelled for his collaboration with
Vichy regime Vichy France (french: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was the fascist French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its terr ...
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Jules Romains Jules Romains (born Louis Henri Jean Farigoule; 26 August 1885 – 14 August 1972) was a French poet and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement. His works include the play '' Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine'', and a cycle ...
, 1946–1972, novelist, playwright and poet #
Jean d'Ormesson Count Jean Bruno Wladimir François de Paule Le Fèvre d'Ormesson (16 June 1925 – 5 December 2017) was a French novelist. He was the author of forty books, the director of '' Le Figaro'' from 1974 to 1979, and the Dean of the Académie français ...
, 1973–2017, novelist # Chantal Thomas, elected 2021, writer and historian


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Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac Claude may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher ...
, 1634–1638, grammarian and mathematician #
François de La Mothe Le Vayer François de La Mothe Le Vayer (, August 15889 May 1672), was a French writer who was known to use the pseudonym Orosius Tubero. He was admitted to the Académie française in 1639, and was the tutor of Louis XIV. Early years Le Vayer was born a ...
, 1639–1672, critic, grammarian and philosopher #
Jean Racine Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ) (; 22 December 163921 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western traditio ...
, 1672–1699, playwright, mathematician, physicist and doctor #
Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour Jean-Baptiste Henri de Trousset, lord of Valincour or Valincourt (1 March 1653, Paris – 4 January 1730) was a French admiral and man of letters. He was a friend of chancellor d'Aguesseau, Racine (who he replaced at Académie française and as of ...
, 1699–1730, historiographer and admiral # Jean-François Leriget de La Faye, 1730–1731, politician #
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (13 January 1674 – 17 June 1762) was a French poet and tragedy, tragedian. Biography Crébillon was born in Dijon, where his father, Melchior Jolyot, was Civil law notary, notary-royal. Having been educated at the ...
, 1731–1762, playwright #
Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon Claude-Henri de Fusée, abbé de Voisenon (8 July 1708 – 22 November 1775) was a French playwright and writer. Life Born at the château de Voisenon near Melun, he was only ten when he addressed an epistle in verse to Voltaire, who asked the ...
, 1762–1775, ecclesiastic, playwright and poet # Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin, 1776–1804, ecclesiastic # Jean-Baptiste Dureau de la Malle, 1804–1807, translator #
Louis-Benoît Picard Louis-Benoît Picard (29 July 1769 in Paris – 31 December 1828 in Paris) was a French playwright, actor, novelist, poet and music director.Jean Gourret, '' Ces hommes qui ont fait l'Opéra'', 1984, p. 106-107. Biography Son of a lawyer, ...
, 1807–1828, comedian, poet, novelist and playwright #
Antoine-Vincent Arnault Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1 January 176616 September 1834) was a French playwright. Life Arnault was born in Paris. His first play, ''Marius à Minturne'' (1791), immediately established his reputation. A year later he followed with a second ...
, 1829–1834, poet, fabulist and playwright #
Eugène Scribe Augustin Eugène Scribe (; 24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of man ...
, 1834–1861, playwright #
Octave Feuillet Octave Feuillet (11 July 1821 – 29 December 1890) was a French novelist and dramatist. His work stands midway between the romanticists and the realists. He is renowned for his "distinguished and lucid portraiture of life", depictions of fem ...
, 1862–1890, novelist and playwright #
Pierre Loti Pierre Loti (; pseudonym of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud ; 14 January 1850 – 10 June 1923) was a French naval officer and novelist, known for his exotic novels and short stories.This article is derived largely from the ''Encyclopædia Britannica El ...
, 1891–1923, novelist and soldier #
Paul-Albert Besnard Paul-Albert Besnard (2 June 1849 – 4 December 1934) was a French painter and printmaker. Biography Besnard was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, studied with Jean Bremond and was influenced by Alexandre Cabanel. He won ...
, 1924–1934, painter and engraver #
Louis Gillet Louis-Marie-Pierre-Dominique Gillet (11 December 1876 – 1 July 1943) was a French art historian and literary historian. Life Louis Gillet was born in Paris on 11 December 1876. He studied at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and the École nor ...
, 1935–1943, historian of art and literature #
Paul Claudel Paul Claudel (; 6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism. Early lif ...
, 1946–1955, poet, playwright, novelist and diplomat # Wladimir d'Ormesson, 1956–1973, politician, chronicler and novelist #
Maurice Schumann Maurice Schumann (; 10 April 1911 – 9 February 1998) was a French politician, journalist, writer, and hero of the Second World War who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Georges Pompidou from 22 June 1969 to 15 March 1973. Schumann w ...
, 1974–1998, politician, essayist, journalist, novelist and historian #
Pierre Messmer Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer (; 20 March 191629 August 2007) was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 – the longest serving since Étienne François, duc de Choiseul under L ...
, 1999–2007, soldier and politician #
Simone Veil Simone Veil (; ; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate and politician who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. A ...
, 2008–2017, lawyer and politician # Maurizio Serra, elected 2020, writer and diplomat


Seat 14

# François Maynard, 1634–1646, magistrate and poet #
Pierre Corneille Pierre Corneille (; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patronag ...
, 1647–1684, playwright and lawyer #
Thomas Corneille Thomas Corneille (20 August 1625 – 8 December 1709) was a French lexicographer and dramatist. Biography Born in Rouen some nineteen years after his brother Pierre, the "great Corneille", Thomas's skill as a poet seems to have shown itself e ...
, 1684–1709, playwright #
Antoine Houdar de la Motte Antoine Houdar de la Motte (18 January 167226 December 1731) was a French author. De la Motte was born and died in Paris. In 1693 his comedy, ''Les Originaux'' (Les originaux, ou, l'Italien), was a complete failure, and so depressed the author ...
, 1710–1731, playwright # Michel-Celse-Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, 1732–1736, ecclesiastic # Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne, 1736–1779, ecclesiastic #
Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon Michel-Paul Guy de Chabanon (1730, Saint-Domingue – 10 June 1792, Paris) was a violinist, composer, music theorist, and connoisseur of French literature. He was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (1760) and the Académ ...
, 1779–1792, playwright #
Jacques-André Naigeon Jacques-André Naigeon (15 July 1738, Paris – 28 February 1810, Paris) was a French artist, atheist– materialist philosopher, editor and man of letters best known for his contributions to the ''Encyclopédie'' and for reworking Baron d'Hol ...
, 1803–1810, encyclopaedist #
Népomucène Lemercier Louis Jean Népomucène Lemercier (20 April 1771 – 7 June 1840) was a French poet and playwright. Life Lemarcier was born in Paris. His father had been intendant successively to the duc de Penthièvre, the comte de Toulouse and the unfortunat ...
, 1810–1840, poet and playwright #
Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...
, 1841–1885, poet, playwright and novelist #
Leconte de Lisle Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (; 22 October 1818 – 17 July 1894) was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle''. Biography Leconte de Lisle was born on the French overseas ...
, 1886–1894, poet and playwright #
Henry Houssaye Henry Houssaye (also Henri) (24 February 184823 September 1911), was a French historian and academician. Biography Houssaye was born in Paris, the son of the novelist Arsène Houssaye. He distinguished himself in the Franco-Prussian War, and was ...
, 1894–1911, historian and novelist #
Hubert Lyautey Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (17 November 1854 – 27 July 1934) was a French Army general and colonial administrator. After serving in Indochina and Madagascar, he became the first French Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925. Early in ...
, 1912–1934, soldier #
Louis Franchet d'Espèrey Louis Félix Marie François Franchet d'Espèrey (25 May 1856 – 8 July 1942) was a French general during World War I. As commander of the large Allied army based at Salonika, he conducted the successful Macedonian campaign, which caused t ...
, 1934–1942, politician and soldier #
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 ...
, 1946–1965, literary historian and essayist #
Jean Mistler Jean Mistler (1 September 1897 – 11 November 1988) was a French writer, diplomat and politician born in Sorèze, Tarn (department), Tarn. In 1966 he was elected to the Académie française. Mistler, whose father's family had left Alsace in 1871, ...
, 1966–1988, novelist, essayist, literary historian, music critic and politician #
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (; born Hélène Zourabichvili; 6 July 1929) is a French political historian of Georgians in France, Georgian origin, specializing in History of Russia, Russian history. Since 1999, she has served as the Perpetual Sec ...
, elected 1990, historian


Seat 15

# Guillaume Bautru, 1634–1665, politician #
Jacques Testu de Belval Abbé Jacques Testu de Belval (c. 1626, Paris – June 1706) was a French ecclesiastic and poet. Best known for his light poetry, he was also a preacher, translator and king's almoner. He was linked with Madame de Sévigné, Madame de Coulanges, M ...
, 1665–1706, ecclesiastic and poet #
François-Joseph de Beaupoil de Sainte-Aulaire François-Joseph de Beaupoil, marquis de Sainte-Aulaire (6 September 1643, château de Bary, Limousin – 17 December 1742, Paris) was a French poet and army officer. Biography External links Académie française {{DEFAULTSORT:Sainte-Au ...
, 1706–1742, soldier and poet #
Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (26 November 1678 – 20 February 1771) was a French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist, was born in the town of Béziers on 26 November 1678. De Mairan lost his father, François d'Ortou ...
, 1743–1771, physicist and mathematician # François Arnaud, 1771–1784, ecclesiastic #
Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target (, 17 December 1733 – 9 September 1806) was a French lawyer and politician. Biography Born in Paris, Target was the son of a lawyer, and was himself a lawyer to the Parlement of Paris. He acquired a great reputation as ...
, 1785–1806, magistrate #
Jean-Sifrein Maury Jean-Sifrein Maury (; 26 June 1746 – 10 May 1817) was a French cardinal, archbishop of Paris, and former bishop of Montefiascone. Biography The son of a cobbler, he was born at Valréas in the Comtat-Venaissin, the enclave within France that ...
, 1806-excluded by ordinance 1816, ecclesiastic and politician #
François-Xavier-Marc-Antoine de Montesquiou-Fézensac Abbé François-Xavier-Marc-Antoine de Montesquiou-Fézensac (château de Marsan, Gers, 3 August 1757 – Chateau de Cirey, Haute-Marne, 4 February 1832) was a French clergyman and politician. Biography He was a member of a very old French nobili ...
, 1816–1832, ecclesiastic and politician #
Antoine Jay Antoine Jay (20 October 1770, Guîtres – 9 April 1854, Courgeac) was a French writer, journalist, historian and politician. Biography At first an Oratorian at Niort, he studied law at Toulouse then became a lawyer, then briefly worked as the ...
, 1832–1854, politician # Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy, 1854–1879, literary critic #
Eugène Marin Labiche Eugène Marin Labiche (6 May 181522 January 1888) was a French dramatist. He remains famous for his contribution to the vaudeville genre and his passionate and domestic pochads. In the 1860s, he reached his peak with a series of successes i ...
, 1880–1888, playwright and novelist #
Henri Meilhac Henri Meilhac (23 February 1830 – 6 July 1897) was a French dramatist and opera librettist, best known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on Georges Bizet's ''Carmen'' and on the works of Jacques Offenbach, as well as Jules Massenet's ...
, 1888–1897, playwright #
Henri Lavedan Henri Léon Emile Lavedan (9 April 1859 – 4 September 1940), French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Orléans, the son of , a well-known Catholic and liberal journalist. Lavedan contributed to various Parisian papers a series of witty ...
, 1898–1940, playwright and novelist #
Ernest Seillière The Baron Ernest-Antoine Seillière (1 January 1866 – 15 March 1955) was a French writer, journalist and critic. Biography Seillière was born in Paris, the son of Aimé Seillière and Marie de Laborde. He studied at the École polytec ...
, 1946–1955, historian of literature and of philosophy, and essayist #
André Chamson André Chamson (6 June 1900 – 9 November 1983) was a French archivist, novelist and essayist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the father of the novelist . Biography Chamson was born at Nîmes, Gard. Having studi ...
, 1956–1983, novelist, essayist and historian #
Fernand Braudel Fernand Braudel (; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian and leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects: ''The Mediterranean'' (1923–49, then 1949–66), ''Civilization and Capitalism'' ...
, 1984–1985, historian of civilisations #
Jacques Laurent Jacques Laurent or Jacques Laurent-Cély (6 January 1919 – 28 December 2000) was a French writer and journalist. He was born in Paris, the son of a barrister. During World War II, he fought with the Algerian Tirailleurs. Laurent was elect ...
, 1986–2000, novelist, essayist and journalist # Frédéric Vitoux, elected 2001, writer and journalist


Seat 16

# Jean Sirmond, 1634–1649, historiographer # Jean de Montereul, 1649–1651, ecclesiastic #
François Tallemant l'Aîné François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters" * Francis II of France, King o ...
, 1651–1693, ecclesiastic #
Simon de la Loubère Simon de la Loubère (; 21 April 1642 – 26 March 1729) was a French diplomat to Siam (Thailand), writer, mathematician and poet. He is credited with bringing back a document which introduced Europe to Indian astronomy, the "Siamese method" ...
, 1693–1729, diplomat and poet #
Claude Sallier Claude Sallier (4 April 1685, in Saulieu – 6 September 1761, in Paris) was a French ecclesiastic and philologist, as well as professor of Hebrew at the Collège royal and garde des manuscrits of the Bibliothèque du Roi. Biography Sallie ...
, 1729–1761, ecclesiastic and philologist # Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet, 1761–1784, ecclesiastic #
Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac (17 October 173930 December 1798) was a French general and writer. Due to his literary talent, he became a member of the Académie française in 1784. He was elected to the Estates-General of 1789. H ...
, 1784–1793, politician #
Antoine-Vincent Arnault Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1 January 176616 September 1834) was a French playwright. Life Arnault was born in Paris. His first play, ''Marius à Minturne'' (1791), immediately established his reputation. A year later he followed with a second ...
, 1803, excluded by ordinance 1816, re-elected in 1829 to seat 13, poet, fabulist and playwright # Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, 1816–1822, politician #
Bon-Joseph Dacier Bon Joseph Dacier (Valognes, 1 April 1742 – Paris, 4 February 1833) was a French historian, philologist and translator of ancient Greek. He became a Chevalier de l'Empire (16 December 1813), then Baron de l'Empire (29 May 1830). He also served ...
, 1822–1833, philologist # Pierre François Tissot, 1833–1854, poet and historian #
Félix Dupanloup Mgr. Félix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup (3 January 180211 October 1878) was a French ecclesiastic. He was among the leaders of Liberal Catholicism in France. Biography Dupanloup was born at Saint-Félix, in Haute-Savoie, an illegitimate son of ...
, 1854–1878, ecclesiastic # Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier, 1878–1905, politician #
Alexandre Ribot Alexandre-Félix-Joseph Ribot (; 7 February 184213 January 1923) was a French politician, four times Prime Minister. Early career Ribot was born in Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais. After a brilliant academic career at the University of Paris, where h ...
, 1906–1923, politician, lawyer, magistrate and jurist # Henri-Robert, 1923–1936, lawyer and historian #
Charles Maurras Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras (; ; 20 April 1868 – 16 November 1952) was a French author, politician, poet, and critic. He was an organizer and principal philosopher of ''Action Française'', a political movement that is monarchist, anti-parl ...
, 1938, not excluded, but seat "declared vacant" for
Vichy Vichy (, ; ; oc, Vichèi, link=no, ) is a city in the Allier Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of central France, in the historic province of Bourbonnais. It is a Spa town, spa and resort town and in World ...
collaboration Collaboration (from Latin ''com-'' "with" + ''laborare'' "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most ...
in 1945, journalist, politician, essayist and poet # Antoine de Lévis Mirepoix, 1953–1981, novelist, historian and essayist #
Léopold Sédar Senghor Léopold Sédar Senghor (; ; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal (1960–80). Ideologically an African socialist, he was the major theoretician o ...
, 1983–2001, head of state (
Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...
), politician, poet and essayist #
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing (, , ; 2 February 19262 December 2020), also known as Giscard or VGE, was a French politician who served as President of France from 1974 to 1981. After serving as Minister of Finance under prime ...
, 2003–2020, former president of France


Seat 17

# François de Cauvigny de Colomby, 1634–1649, poet #
François Tristan l'Hermite François l'Hermite (c. 16017 September 1655) was a French dramatist who wrote under the name Tristan l'Hermite. He was born at the Château de Soliers in the Haute Marche. Life His adventures began early, for he killed his enemy in a due ...
, 1649–1655, playwright and poet # Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière, 1655–1663, critic, poet and historian # François de Beauvilliers, 1st duc de Saint-Aignan, 1663–1687, soldier #
François-Timoléon de Choisy François Timoléon, abbé de Choisy (; 16 August 1644 – 2 October 1724) was a French cross-dresser, abbé, and author. He wrote numerous works on church history as well as travelogues, memoirs and fiction. Biography De Choisy was born in Pari ...
, 1687–1724, ecclesiastic # Antoine Portail, 1724–1736, politician # Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, 1736–1754, playwright # Jean-Pierre de Bougainville, 1754–1763, historian #
Jean-François Marmontel Jean-François Marmontel (11 July 1723 – 31 December 1799) was a French historian, writer and a member of the Encyclopédistes movement. Biography He was born of poor parents at Bort, Limousin (today in Corrèze). After studying with th ...
, 1763–1793, philosopher and essayist # Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, 1803–1821, politician, poet and journalist #
Abel-François Villemain Abel-François Villemain (9 June 17908 May 1870) was a French politician and writer. Biography Villemain was born in Paris and educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He became assistant master at the Lycée Charlemagne, and subsequently at the ...
, 1821–1870, politician and literary critic #
Émile Littré Émile Maximilien Paul Littré (; 1 February 18012 June 1881) was a French lexicographer, freemason and philosopher, best known for his ''Dictionnaire de la langue française'', commonly called . Biography Littré was born in Paris. His father, ...
, 1871–1881, philologist and philosopher #
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 ...
, 1881–1895, chemist #
Gaston Paris Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris (; 9 August 1839 – 5 March 1903) was a French literary historian, philologist, and scholar specialized in Romance studies and medieval French literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, 19 ...
, 1896–1903, philologist and literary historian #
Frédéric Masson Louis Claude Frédéric Masson (8 March 1847, Paris – 19 February 1923, Paris) was a French historian. Life and career His father, Francis Masson, a solicitor, was killed on 23 June 1848 when he was a major in the ''garde nationale''. Youn ...
, 1903–1923, historian # Georges Lecomte, 1924–1958, novelist, essayist, art critic and historian # Jean Delay, 1959–1987, psychiatrist, essayist and novelist #
Jacques Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (, also , ; 11 June 191025 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful Aqua-Lung, open-circuit SCUBA (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus). T ...
, 1988–1997, oceanographer, film-maker and essayist #
Érik Orsenna Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult (born 22 March 1947) a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po"), Orsenna specialized in economic ...
, elected 1998, politician and novelist


Seat 18

#
Jean Baudoin Jean Baudoin (1662–1698) was a French Sulpician priest who served as a missionary in Acadia, and later as a chaplain during military expeditions carried on by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. Life Jean Baudoin studied at the College of Nantes with ...
, 1634–1650, translator #
François Charpentier François Charpentier (15 February 1620 – 22 April 1702) was a French archaeologist and man of letters. Biography Charpentier was born in Paris, and intended for the bar, but was employed by Colbert, who had determined on the foundation of a F ...
, 1650–1702, novelist #
Jean-François de Chamillart Jean-François de Chamillart (1657 – 15 April 1714) was a French churchman. The brother of the contrôleur général des finances Michel de Chamillart, Jean-François served as the abbot of the Fontgombault Abbey, and of Baume-les-Messieurs Abbey ...
, 1702–1714, ecclesiastic # Claude Louis Hector de Villars, 1714–1734, politician and soldier #
Honoré Armand de Villars Don Honoré Armand de Villars, 2e duc de Villars (4 October 1702, Paris – May 1770, Aix), Duke and Peer of France, Prince of Martigues, Grandee of Spain, Knight of the Golden Fleece, Viscount of Melun, Marquis of la Melle, Count of Rochemiley ...
, 1734–1770, politician #
Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (9 October 172719 February 1794) was a French clergyman, bishop, cardinal, politician and finance minister of Louis XVI. Life Early career He was born in Paris, in the Loménie family from Flavignac, s ...
, 1770–1794, ecclesiastic, politician and philosopher #
Jean-Gérard Lacuée, count of Cessac Jean-Girard Lacuée, count of Cessac ( château de Lamassas),Castle of Lamassas
on Napoleon & Empir ...
, 1803–1841, politician #
Alexis de Tocqueville Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (; 29 July 180516 April 1859), colloquially known as Tocqueville (), was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, political philosopher and historian. He is best known for his works ...
, 1841–1859, politician #
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire (12 May 1802 – 21 November 1861), often styled Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, was a French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist, theologian and political activist. He re-established the Dominican Order in p ...
, 1860–1861, ecclesiastic #
Albert, 4th duc de Broglie Jacques-Victor-Albert, 4th duc de Broglie (; 13 June 182119 January 1901) was a French monarchist politician, diplomat and writer (of historical works and translations). Broglie twice served as Prime Minister of France, first from May 1873 to ...
, 1862–1901, politician, diplomat and historian # Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogüé, 1901–1916, archaeologist and historian #
Ferdinand Foch Ferdinand Foch ( , ; 2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French general and military theorist who served as the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War. An aggressive, even reckless commander at the First Marne, Flanders and Art ...
, 1918–1929, soldier #
Philippe Pétain Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), commonly known as Philippe Pétain (, ) or Marshal Pétain (french: Maréchal Pétain), was a French general who attained the position of Marshal of France at the end of World ...
, 1929–1945, soldier (expelled from the Academy after trial; in 1945-1952 the seat was vacant) #
André François-Poncet André François-Poncet (13 June 1887 – 8 January 1978) was a French politician and diplomat whose post as ambassador to Germany allowed him to witness first-hand the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and the Nazi regime's prep ...
, 1952–1978, politician and diplomat #
Edgar Faure Edgar Jean Faure (; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956.Michel Serres Michel Serres (; 1 September 1930 – 1 June 2019) was a French philosopher, theorist and writer. His works explore themes of science, time and death, and later incorporated prose. Life and career The son of a bargeman, Serres entered France's ...
, 1990–2019, philosopher #
Mario Vargas Llosa Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (, ), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Ll ...
, elected 2021, novelist and essayist


Seat 19

# François de Porchères d'Arbaud, 1634–1640, poet # Olivier Patru, 1640–1681, lawyer #
Nicolas Potier de Novion Nicolas Potier de Novion (1618 – 1 September 1693) was a French magistrate of the Ancien Régime ''Ancien'' may refer to * the French word for "ancient, old" ** Société des anciens textes français * the French for "former, senior" ** Virela ...
, 1681–1693, magistrate # Philippe Goibaud-Dubois, 1693–1694, translator # Charles Boileau, 1694–1704, ecclesiastic #
Gaspard Abeille Gaspard Abeille (Riez, 1648 – Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an are ...
, 1704–1718, ecclesiastic # Nicolas-Hubert de Mongault, 1718–1746, ecclesiastic #
Charles Pinot Duclos Charles Pinot (or Pineau) Duclos (12 February 1704 – 26 March 1772) was a French author and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers''. Biography Duclos was born at Dinan in Brittany ...
, 1746–1772, grammarian and historian #
Nicolas Beauzée Nicolas Beauzée (9 May 1717 in Verdun, Meuse – 23 January 1789 in Paris) was a French linguist, author of Grammaire générale (published 1767) and one of the main contributors to the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond ...
, 1772–1789, grammarian #
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (20 January 1716 – 30 April 1795) was a French scholar who became the first person to decipher an extinct language. He deciphered the Palmyrene alphabet in 1754 and the Phoenician alphabet in 1758. Early years Barth ...
, 1789–1795, ecclesiastic #
Joseph Chénier Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...
, 1803–1811, poet and playwright #
François-René de Chateaubriand François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who had a notable influence on French literature of the nineteenth century. Descended from an old aristocrati ...
, 1811–1848, politician, poet and novelist #
Paul, 6th duc de Noailles Paul de Noailles, 6th Duke of Noailles (4 January 1802 – 29 May 1885) was a French nobleman and historian. He was the grandnephew of the heirless Jean-Paul-François de Noailles, 5th Duke of Noailles, and succeeded him as Duke of Noailles on ...
, 1849–1885, historian #
Édouard Hervé Édouard Hervé (28 May 1835 – 4 January 1899) was a French journalist, historian and politician. Life Édouard Hervé was born in Saint-Denis, La Réunion on 28 May 1835. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, Paris city councilor an ...
, 1886–1899, politician #
Paul Deschanel Paul Eugène Louis Deschanel (; 13 February 1855, in Schaerbeek28 April 1922) was a French politician. He served as President of France from 18 February to 21 September 1920. Biography Paul Deschanel, the son of Émile Deschanel (1819–190 ...
, 1899–1922, politician # Auguste Jonnart, 1923–1927, politician, senior bureaucrat and diplomat #
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 ...
, 1928–1944, diplomat and historian # Charles de Chambrun, 1946–1952, diplomat #
Fernand Gregh Fernand Gregh (14 October 1873, Paris – 5 January 1960, Paris) was a French poet and literary critic. He was accepted in the Académie française in 1953. British composer Eva Ruth Spalding Eva Ruth Spalding (December 19, 1883 - March 1969) ...
, 1953–1960, poet, literary critic and historian #
René Clair René Clair (11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981), born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer. He first established his reputation in the 1920s as a director of silent films in which comedy was often mingled with fantasy. He wen ...
, 1960–1981, film director and novelist #
Pierre Moinot Pierre Moinot (29 March 1920, in Fressines, Deux-Sèvres – 6 March 2007, in Paris) was a French novelist. He was elected to the Académie française on 21 January 1982. Bibliography *''Armes et Bagages, roman'' (1952) *''La Chasse royale, r ...
, 1982–2007, senior bureaucrat and novelist #
Jean-Loup Dabadie Jean-Loup Dabadie (27 September 1938 – 24 May 2020) was a French journalist, writer, lyricist, screenwriter and member of the Académie Française. Filmography * ''Anna'' (1967) * ''Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me'' (1972) * '' Parisian Life'' ( ...
, 2008–2020, journalist, lyricist and screenwriter


Seat 20

# Paul Hay du Chastelet, 1634–1636, lawyer # Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, 1637–1664, translator #
Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy (13 April 1618 – 9 April 1693), commonly known as Bussy-Rabutin, was a French memoirist. He was the cousin and frequent correspondent of Madame de Sévigné. Born at Epiry, near Autun, he represented a fami ...
, 1665–1693, novelist #
Jean-Paul Bignon The Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon, Cong.Orat. (19 September 1662, Paris – 14 March 1743, Île Belle) was a French ecclesiastic, statesman, writer and preacher and librarian to Louis XIV of France. His protégé, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, named ...
, 1693–1743, ecclesiastic # Armand-Jérôme Bignon, 1743–1772, politician # Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, 1772–1795, historian #
Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun (11 August 1729 – 31 August 1807) was a French lyric poet. Biography Lebrun was born in Paris at the house of the prince de Conti, to whom his father was valet. Among Lebrun's school friends was a son of Louis Raci ...
, 1803–1807, poet #
François Juste Marie Raynouard François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters" * Francis II of France, Kin ...
, 1807–1836, lawyer, poet and playwright #
François Mignet François Auguste Marie Mignet (, 8 May 1796 – 24 March 1884) was a French journalist and historian of the French Revolution. Biography He was born in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), France. His father was a locksmith from the Vendée ...
, 1836–1884, historian #
Victor Duruy Jean Victor Duruy (10 September 1811 – 25 November 1894) was a French historian and statesman. Life Duruy was born in Paris, the son of a factory worker, and at first intended for his father's trade. Having passed brilliantly through the Éc ...
, 1884–1894, politician and historian #
Jules Lemaître François Élie Jules Lemaître (27 April 1853 – 4 August 1914) was a French critic and dramatist. Biography Lemaître was born in Vennecy, Loiret. He became a professor at the University of Grenoble in 1883, but was already well known for hi ...
, 1895–1914, playwright and critic #
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 ...
, 1919–1963, lawyer and novelist #
Thierry Maulnier Thierry Maulnier (born Jacques Talagrand; 1 October 1909, Alès – 9 January 1988, Marnes-la-Coquette) was a French journalist, essayist, dramatist, and literary critic. He was married to theatre director Marcelle Tassencourt. Early years A ...
, 1964–1988, journalist and playwright # José Cabanis, 1990–2000, magistrate and novelist #
Angelo Rinaldi Angelo Rinaldi (born 17 June 1940) is a French writer and literary critic. Biography Rinaldi is the son of Pierre-François Rinaldi and Antoinette Pietri; after growing up in Corsica he became a journalist. He initially worked as a reporter ...
, elected 2001, writer


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Marin le Roy de Gomberville Marin le Roy, sieur du Parc et de Gomberville (1600 – 14 June 1674) was a French poet and novelist. He was born at Paris, and at fourteen he produced a volume of poetry. At twenty he wrote a ''Discours sur l'histoire'' and at twenty-two a pa ...
, 1634–1674, novelist #
Pierre Daniel Huet image:Portret van Pierre-Daniel Huet Petrus Daniel Huetius (titel op object), RP-P-BI-7523.jpg, P. D. Huetius Pierre Daniel Huet (; la, Huetius; 8 February 1630 – 26 January 1721) was a French churchman and scholar, Editing, editor of the Delph ...
, 1674–1721, ecclesiastic # Jean Boivin le Cadet, 1721–1726, professor #
Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, duke of Saint-Aignan Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, duke of Saint-Aignan (15 November 1684, in Paris – 22 January 1776, in Paris) was a French diplomat, soldier, chevalier des ordres du Roi and peer of France. Family He was the son of François Honorat de Beauv ...
, 1726–1776, politician # Charles-Pierre Colardeau, 1776, poet and playwright #
Jean-François de La Harpe Jean-François de La Harpe (20 November 173911 February 1803) was a French playwright, writer and literary critic. Life La Harpe was born in Paris of poor parents. His father, who signed himself Delharpe, was a descendant of a noble family orig ...
, 1776–1793, poet, playwright and critic #
Pierre Louis de Lacretelle Pierre Louis de Lacretelle (9 October 1751 – 5 September 1824) was a French lawyer, politician and writer. He was born in Metz, the elder brother of Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle. He practised as a barrister in Paris. In 1784 he share ...
, 1803–1824, lawyer # Joseph Droz, 1824–1850, philosopher and historian #
Charles Forbes René de Montalembert Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (; 15 April 1810, in London – 13 March 1870, in Paris) was a French publicist, historian and Count of Montalembert, Deux-Sèvres, and a prominent representative of liberal Catholicism. Family Charles Forb ...
, 1851–1870, philosopher #
Henri d'Orleans, duke of Aumale 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 ...
, 1871–1897, soldier, politician and historian #
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume (4 July 1822, Montbard – 1 March 1905, Rome) was a French sculptor. Biography He was born at Montbard on the Côte-d'Or. He studied under Cavelier, Millet, and Barrias, at the École des Beaux-Arts, wh ...
, 1898–1905, sculptor # Étienne Lamy, 1905–1919, essayist, politician and lawyer # André Chevrillon, 1920–1957, essayist and literary historian and critic #
Marcel Achard Marcel Achard (5 July 1899 – 4 September 1974) was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies Garzanti p. 3 maintained his position as a highly recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles ...
, 1959–1974, playwright and journalist #
Félicien Marceau Félicien Marceau (16 September 1913 – 7 March 2012) was a French novelist, playwright and essayist originally from Belgium. His real name was Louis Carette. He was close to the Hussards right-wing literary movement, which in turn was close t ...
, 1975–2012, playwright, novelist and essayist #
Alain Finkielkraut Alain Finkielkraut (, ; ; born 30 June 1949) is a French philosopher and public intellectual. He has written books and essays on a wide range of topics, many on the ideas of tradition and identitary nonviolence, including Jewish identity and ant ...
, elected 2014, philosopher and essayist


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Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant Antoine Girard, sieur de Saint-Amant (September 30, 1594December 29, 1661) was a French poet. Saint-Amant was born near Rouen. His father was a merchant who had, according to his son's account, been a sailor and had commanded for 22 years "''une ...
, 1634–1661, poet #
Jacques Cassagne Jacques Cassagne or Jacques de Cassaigne (1 January 1636, Nîmes – 19 May 1679, Paris) was a French clergyman, poet, and moralist. Biography A doctor of theology, he was 'garde' of the king's library and entered the Académie française aged 2 ...
, 1662–1679, ecclesiastic and poet #
Louis de Verjus Louis (de) Verjus, count of Crécy (1629, Paris – 13 December 1709) was a French politician and diplomat. Biography A Conseiller d’État and brother of the notable Jesuit and procurer for missions to the Levant Antoine Verjus (22 January 16 ...
, 1679–1709, politician # Jean-Antoine de Mesmes, 1710–1723, magistrate #
Pierre-Joseph Alary Pierre-Joseph Alary (19 March 1689, Paris – 15 December 1770) was a French ecclesiastic and writer. Biography Prior of Gournay-sur-Marne and sous-précepteur to Louis XV, he attended the salon of Madame de Lambert, was elected to the Acad ...
, 1723–1770, ecclesiastic #
Gabriel-Henri Gaillard Gabriel-Henri Gaillard (26 March 1726 – 13 February 1806) was a French historian. Life Gaillard was born in Ostel, Picardy. He was educated for the bar, but after finishing his studies adopted a literary career, ultimately devoting his chie ...
, 1771–1806, ecclesiastic, historian, grammarian and journalist #
Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur (10 December 175327 August 1830) was a French diplomat and historian. Biography Ségur was born in Paris, the son of Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur and Louise Anne Madeleine de Vernon. He entered the army in ...
, 1806–1830, diplomat, historian, poet and playwright # Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet, 1830–1868, politician, poet and playwright #
Joseph d'Haussonville Joseph Othenin Bernard de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville (27 May 1809 – 28 May 1884), was a French politician and historian. He was born in Paris. His grandfather had been ''grand louvetier'' of France; his father was Charles Louis Bernard de Cl ...
, 1869–1884, politician and diplomat #
Ludovic Halévy Ludovic Halévy (1 January 1834 – 7 May 1908) was a French author and playwright, best known for his collaborations with Henri Meilhac on Georges Bizet's ''Carmen'' and on the works of Jacques Offenbach. Biography Ludovic Halévy was born in P ...
, 1884–1908, playwright, librettist and novelist #
Eugène Brieux Eugène Brieux (; 19 January 18586 December 1932), French dramatist, was born in Paris of poor parents. Biography Works A one-act play, ''Bernard Palissy'', written in collaboration with M. Gaston Salandri, was produced in 1879, but he h ...
, 1909–1932, playwright #
François Mauriac François Charles Mauriac (, oc, Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the'' Académie française'' (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Priz ...
, 1933–1970, writer, essayist and literary critic #
Julien Green Julien Green (September 6, 1900 – August 13, 1998) was an American writer who authored several novels (''The Dark Journey'', ''The Closed Garden'', ''Moira'', ''Each Man in His Darkness'', the ''Dixie'' trilogy, etc.), a four-volume autobiog ...
, 1971–1998, novelist and playwright #
René de Obaldia René de Obaldia (22 October 1918 – 27 January 2022) was a French playwright and poet. He was elected to the Académie française on 24 June 1999. Biography He was the great-grandson of José Domingo de Obaldía, the second President of Panam ...
, 1999–2022, playwright and poet


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Guillaume Colletet Guillaume Colletet (12 March 1598 – 11 February 1659) was a French poet and a founder member of the Académie française. His son was François Colletet. Biography Colletet was born and died in Paris. He had a great reputation among his cont ...
, 1634–1659, lawyer and playwright #
Gilles Boileau Gilles Boileau (22 October 1631, Paris – 18 March 1669), the elder brother of the more famous Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, was a French translator and member of the Académie française. Boileau was well regarded as a classicist by his conte ...
, 1659–1669, poet #
Jean de Montigny The Abbé Jean de Montigny (1636 – 28 September 1671) was a French philosophic writer and poet, elected to the Académie française, but who died in his prime. Biography Born in Brittany, Montigny was encouraged by the marquise de Guiche, a ...
, 1670–1671, ecclesiastic and poet #
Charles Perrault Charles Perrault ( , also , ; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was an iconic French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales ...
, 1671–1703, poet #
Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan Armand de Rohan (Armand Gaston Maximilien; 26 June 1674 – 19 July 1749) was a French churchman and politician. He became Bishop of Strasbourg in 1704, Cardinal in 1712 then Grand Almoner of France in 1713 and member of the regency council i ...
, 1703–1749, ecclesiastic and politician #
Louis-Gui de Guérapin de Vauréal Louis-Guy de Guérapin de Vauréal (3 January 1687, in Brienne-la-Vieille – 10 June 1760) was a French ecclesiastic and diplomat. He was master of the king's chapel in 1732 and bishop of Rennes (1732–58). A major opponent of the Jansenist ...
, 1749–1760, ecclesiastic and politician #
Charles Marie de La Condamine Charles Marie de La Condamine (28 January 1701 – 4 February 1774) was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician. He spent ten years in territory which is now Ecuador, measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the equator and prepar ...
, 1760–1774, explorer #
Jacques Delille The French poet Jacques Delille (; 22 June 1738 at Aigueperse in Auvergne – 1 May 1813, in Paris) came to national prominence with his translation of Virgil’s Georgics and made an international reputation with his didactic poem on gardening. ...
, 1774–1813, ecclesiastic and poet # François-Nicolas-Vincent Campenon, 1813–1843, poet # Marc Girardin, 1844–1873, politician and literary critic #
Alfred Mézières Alfred Jean François Mézières (19 November 1826, in Réhon – 10 October 1915, in Réhon) was a French journalist, politician and historian of literature. Biography Alfred Mézières was educated at Metz College and the École Normale Supér ...
, 1874–1915, literary historian, politician and essayist # René Boylesve, 1918–1926, novelist and poet #
Abel Hermant Abel Hermant (3 February 1862 – 29 September 1950) was a French novelist, playwright, essayist and writer, and member of the Académie française. Life and career Hermant was born in Paris, the son of an architect. He received a degree from ...
, 1927–1945, novelist, essayist and journalist #
Étienne Gilson Étienne Henri Gilson (; 13 June 1884 – 19 September 1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. A scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes; he also philosophized in the tradition o ...
, 1946–1978, philosopher #
Henri Gouhier Henri Gouhier (; 5 December 1898 – 31 March 1994) was a French philosopher, a historian of philosophy, and a literary critic. Biography Born in Auxerre, Yonne, Gouhier's studies led to a doctorate in 1926. He served as the Professor of philos ...
, 1979–1994, philosopher and literary critic #
Pierre Rosenberg Pierre Max Rosenberg (born 13 April 1936) is a French art historian, curator, and professor. Rosenberg is the honorary president a director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and since 1995, he has held the 23rd seat of the Académie Française. ...
, elected 1995, art historian and essayist


Seat 24

# Jean de Silhon, 1634–1667, politician #
Jean-Baptiste Colbert Jean-Baptiste Colbert (; 29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683) was a French statesman who served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. His lasting impact on the organization of the countr ...
, 1667–1683, politician #
Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine (, , ; 8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his ''Fables'', which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Euro ...
, 1684–1695, poet # Jules de Clérambault, 1695–1714, ecclesiastic #
Guillaume Massieu Guillaume Massieu (13 April 1665, Caen – 26 September 1722, Paris) was a French churchman, translator and poet, best known for his Latin verses in praise of the agreeability and benefits of coffee Coffee is a drink prepared from roaste ...
, 1714–1722, ecclesiastic # Claude-François-Alexandre Houtteville, 1722–1742, ecclesiastic #
Pierre de Marivaux Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (4 February 1688 – 12 February 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French playwright and novelist. He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing nume ...
, 1742–1763, playwright and novelist # Claude-François Lysarde de Radonvilliers, 1763–1789, ecclesiastic # Constantin-François Chassebœuf, 1803–1820, philosopher #
Claude-Emmanuel de Pastoret Claude-Emmanuel Joseph Pierre, Marquess of Pastoret (24 December 1755, in Marseille – 28 September 1840, in Paris) was a French lawyer, author and politician. Biography Pastoret was elected member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Le ...
, 1820–1840, politician, lawyer and poet # Louis de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire, 1841–1854, politician # Victor de Broglie, 1855–1870, politician #
Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne (3 August 1798, Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of ...
, 1870–1881, politician #
Sully Prudhomme René François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme (; 16 March 1839 – 6 September 1907) was a French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901. Born in Paris, Prudhomme originally studied to be an engineer, bu ...
, 1881–1907, poet and essayist #
Henri Poincaré Jules Henri Poincaré ( S: stress final syllable ; 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The ...
, 1908–1912, mathematician, astronomer, engineer and philosopher #
Alfred Capus Alfred Capus (25 November 18581 November 1922) was a French journalist and playwright, who was born in Aix-en-Provence and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Biography Son of a lawyer from Marseille, Alfred Capus went to university in Toulon. After fail ...
, 1914–1922, playwright, journalist and essayist #
Édouard Estaunié Édouard Estaunié (4 February 1862 in Dijon – 2 April 1942 in Paris) was a French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer, working at the Post and Telepgraph service and training further in Holland, before turning to the novel i ...
, 1923–1942, novelist and engineer # Louis-Pasteur Vallery-Radot, 1944–1970, doctor # Étienne Wolff, 1971–1996, biologist #
Jean-François Revel Jean-François Revel (born Jean-François Ricard; 19 January 192430 April 2006) was a French philosopher, journalist, and author. A prominent public intellectual, Revel was a socialist in his youth but later became a prominent European propo ...
, 1997–2006, historian and essayist #
Max Gallo Max Gallo (; 7 January 1932 – 18 July 2017) was a French writer, historian and politician. He wrote over one hundred books. The son of Italian immigrants (his father was of Piedmontese descent and his mother was from the region of Parma), Gall ...
, 2007–2017, journalist and novelist #
François Sureau François Sureau (born 19 September 1957) is a French writer, lawyer and technocrat. He was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and educated at the École nationale d'administration (ENA). He is a co-founder and co-director of the French Rev ...
, elected 2020, writer


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Claude de L'Estoile Claude de L'Estoile (1602, Paris – May 1652) was a French playwright and poet. He was a founder member of the Académie française. Biography Third son of Pierre de L'Estoile he inherited fortune, he devoted himself entirely to poetry and bel ...
, 1634–1652, playwright and poet #
Armand de Camboust, duc de Coislin Armand du Cambout, 1st Duke of Coislin (1 September 1635, Paris – 16 September 1702) was a French lieutenant général des armées du roi, and a duke and peer of France. The son of a colonel in the Swiss Guards, he was elected a member of the A ...
, 1652–1702, soldier #
Pierre de Camboust, duc de Coislin Pierre du Cambout, 2nd Duke of Coislin (1664–1710) was a duke and peer of France, succeeding his father. He was admitted to the Académie française in his father's seat on 11 December 1702 by the ''Abbé de Dangeau''. External links Biography ...
, 1702–1710, aristocrat #
Henri Charles du Cambout de Coislin Henri-Charles du Camboust (15 September 1665, Paris – 28 November 1732) was a French prelate. He was bishop of Metz from 1697 to 1732, and duc de Coislin from 1710. Biography Great-grandson of chancellor Séguier, brother of Pierre de Camboust ...
, 1710–1732, ecclesiastic # Jean-Baptiste Surian, 1733–1754, ecclesiastic # Jean Le Rond, dit d'Alembert, 1754–1783, philosopher and mathematician #
Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul (27 September 1752, Paris – 20 June 1817, Aix-la-Chapelle), called Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier (), was a French diplomat and aristocrat from the Gouffier branch of the Choiseul family. A member of the ...
, 1783–1793, biographer #
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis (1 April 1746 – 25 August 1807) was a French jurist and politician in the time of the French Revolution and the First Empire. His son, Joseph Marie Portalis, was a diplomat and statesman. Biography Early years Port ...
, 1803–1807, politician, philosopher and lawyer # Pierre Laujon, 1807–1811, poet and songwriter #
Charles-Guillaume Étienne Charles-Guillaume Étienne (5 January 177813 March 1845) was a 19th-century French playwright. Biography He was born in Chamouilley, Haute-Marne. He held various municipal offices under the Revolution and came in 1793 to Paris, where he prod ...
, 1811–1816, poet and playwright, excluded by ordinance #
Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul (27 September 1752, Paris – 20 June 1817, Aix-la-Chapelle), called Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier (), was a French diplomat and aristocrat from the Gouffier branch of the Choiseul family. A member of the ...
, (2nd time), 1816–1817 # Jean-Louis Laya, 1817–1833, poet and playwright #
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 ...
, 1833–1844, novelist, poet and grammarian #
Prosper Mérimée Prosper Mérimée (; 28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, and a ...
, 1844–1870, novelist #
Louis de Loménie Louis-Léonard de Loménie (3 December 1815 – 2 April 1878) was a French scholar and essayist. He is best known for his biography of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, and also edited this author's complete works. Biography Loménie was bor ...
, 1871–1878, essayist #
Hippolyte Taine Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (, 21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practition ...
, 1878–1893, essayist and historian #
Albert Sorel Albert Sorel (13 August 184229 June 1906) was a French historian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times. Life He was born at Honfleur and remained throughout his life a lover of his native Normandy. His father, a rich man ...
, 1894–1906, historian #
Maurice Donnay Charles Maurice Donnay (12 October 1859 – 31 March 1945) was a French dramatist. Biography Donnay was born of middle-class parents in Paris in 1859. His father was a railway engineer and initially Donnay followed a similar profession, st ...
, 1907–1945, playwright #
Marcel Pagnol Marcel Paul Pagnol (; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionable ...
, 1946–1974, playwright, film-maker and novelist # Jean Bernard, 1976–2006, medical doctor #
Dominique Fernandez Dominique Fernandez (born 25 August 1929) is a French writer of novels, essays and travel books. Much of his writing explores homosexual experience and creativity. In 1982 he won the Prix Goncourt for his novel about Pier Paolo Pasolini; and in ...
, elected 2007, novelist and literary critic


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Amable de Bourzeys Amable de Bourzeis (6 April 1606, Volvic – 2 August 1672, Paris) was a French churchman, writer, hellenist, and Academician. A founding member of the Académie française, in 1663 Jean-Baptiste Colbert also made him one of the five foundin ...
, 1634–1672, ecclesiastic and scholar # Jean Gallois, 1672–1707, ecclesiastic # Edme Mongin, 1707–1746, ecclesiastic # Jean Ignace de La Ville, 1746–1774, ecclesiastic and diplomat #
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard (15 January 1732 – 20 July 1817) was a French journalist, translator and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment. He was born in Besançon and died in Paris. Biography Suard was incarcerated in the ''Royal F ...
, 1774–1817, essayist # Jean-François Roger, 1817–1842, poet and playwright #
Henri Patin Henri Joseph Guillaume Patin (21 August 1793, in Paris – 19 February 1876) was a French writer and translator of Ancient Greek and Latin. Works * ''Mélanges de littérature ancienne et moderne'' (1840) * ''Études sur les tragiques grecs, o ...
, 1842–1876, professor #
Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier (15 August 1823 – 20 November 1908), French classical scholar, and secretary of the Académie française, was born at Nîmes. The Roman monuments of his native town very early attracted Gaston Boissier to t ...
, 1876–1908, historian and philologist #
René Doumic René Doumic (7 March 1860, in Paris – 2 December 1937), French critic and man of letters, was born in Paris, and after a distinguished career at the École Normale began to teach rhetoric at the Collège Stanislas de Paris. Life Doumic att ...
, 1909–1937, literary historian and critic, and essayist #
André Maurois André Maurois (; born Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog; 26 July 1885 – 9 October 1967) was a French author. Biography Maurois was born on 26 July 1885 in Elbeuf and educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen, both in Normandy. A member of ...
, 1938–1967, novelist, essayist, literary historian and critic #
Marcel Arland Marcel Arland (5 July 1899, Terre-Natale, Varennes-sur-Amance, Haute-Marne – 12 January 1986, Haute-Marne) was a French novelist, literary critic, and journalist. Biography With René Crevel and Roger Vitrac he founded the dadaist newspa ...
, 1968–1986, novelist, essayist, literary historian and critic #
Georges Duby Georges Duby (7 October 1919 – 3 December 1996) was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of Franc ...
, 1987–1996, historian #
Jean-Marie Rouart Jean-Marie Rouart (born 8 April 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French novelist, essayist and journalist. He was elected to the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institutio ...
, elected 1997, novelist and essayist


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Abel Servien Abel Servien, marquis de Sablé et de Boisdauphin and comte de La Roche des Aubiers (1 November 159317 February 1659) was a French diplomat who served Cardinal Mazarin and signed for the French the Treaty of Westphalia. He was an early member of th ...
, 1634–1659, politician #
Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer Jean-Jacques Renouard, seigneur de Villayer (24 June 1607, Nantes – 5 March 1691, Paris) was a member of the France, French ''Council of State (France), Conseil d'État'', which had been delegated special legal authorities by the absolutist reigni ...
, 1659–1691, politician # Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, 1691–1757, playwright and philosopher # Antoine-Louis Séguier, 1757–1792, lawyer #
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (also called Bernardin de St. Pierre) (19 January 1737, in Le Havre – 21 January 1814, in Éragny, Val-d'Oise) was a French writer and botanist. He is best known for his 1788 novel ''Paul et Virginie'', n ...
, 1803–1814, essayist #
Étienne Aignan Étienne Aignan (9 April 1773, Beaugency – 21 June 1824, Paris) was a French translator, political writer, librettist and playwright. In 1814 he was made a member of the Académie française, succeeding Bernardin de Saint-Pierre in Seat 27. He ...
, 1814–1824, journalist and playwright #
Alexandre Soumet Alexandre Soumet (; 18 February 178830 March 1845) was a French poet. Biography Alexandre Soumet was born at Castelnaudary, ''département'' of Aude. His love of poetry began at an early age. He was an admirer of Klopstock and Schiller, then li ...
, 1824–1845, poet and playwright #
Ludovic Vitet Ludovic Vitet (18 October 18025 June 1873) was a French dramatist and politician. Early life and career Ludovic Vitet was born in Paris. He came from a wealthy bourgeois family, as the grandson of former member of the National Convention Louis V ...
, 1845–1873, archaeologist #
Elme Marie Caro Elme Marie Caro (4 March 1826, Poitiers, Vienne13 July 1887, Paris) was a French philosopher. Life His father, a professor of philosophy, gave him an education at the Collège Stanislas de Paris, Stanislas College and the École normale supérie ...
, 1874–1887, philosopher #
Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville (21 September 18431 September 1924) was a French politician and author. Biography Born at Gurcy-le-Châtel (Seine-et-Marne), de Cléron was the son of Joseph Othenin Bernard de Cléron, com ...
, 1888–1924, politician and lawyer # Auguste-Armand de la Force, 1925–1961 historian #
Joseph Kessel Joseph Kessel (10 February 1898 – 23 July 1979), also known as "Jef", was a French journalist and novelist. He was a member of the Académie française and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. Biography Kessel was born to a Argentine Jews, Je ...
, 1962–1979, journalist and novelist #
Michel Droit Michel Droit (23 January 1923 in Vincennes, Val-de-Marne – 22 June 2000) was a French novelist and journalist. He was the father of the photographer Éric Droit (1954–2007). Biography After studying at the Faculté des lettres de Paris and Sc ...
, 1980–2001, novelist #
Pierre Nora Pierre Nora (born 17 November 1931) is a French historian elected to the Académie française on 7 June 2001. He is known for his work on French identity and memory. His name is associated with the study of new history. He is the brother of t ...
, elected 2001, historian


Seat 28

# Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, 1634–1654, essayist # Paul Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, 1654–1670, ecclesiastic and historian #
François de Harlay de Champvallon François de Harlay de Champvallon (François III de Harlay; 14 August 1625 – 6 August 1695) was the fifth Archbishop of Paris. Life and church Early years Harlay de Champvallon was born in Paris, the nephew of François de Harlay, archb ...
, 1671–1695, ecclesiastic #
André Dacier André Dacier ( la, Andreas Dacerius; 6 April 165118 September 1722) was a French classical scholar and editor of texts. He began his career with an edition and commentary of Festus' ''De verborum significatione'', and was the first to produce a ...
, 1695–1722, philologist and translator #
Guillaume Dubois Guillaume Dubois (6 September 1656 – 10 August 1723) was a French cardinal and statesman. Life and government Early years Dubois, the third of the four great Cardinal-Ministers ( Richelieu, Mazarin, Dubois, and Fleury), was born in Brive-l ...
, 1722–1723, ecclesiastic and politician #
Charles-Jean-François Hénault Charles-Jean-François Hénault (8 February 1685 – 24 November 1770) was a French writer and historian. Life and career Early years Hénault was born in Paris. His father, René Jean Rémy Hénault de Cantobre (1648–1737) a farmer-general ...
, 1723–1770, magistrate # Charles Juste de Beauvau, 1771–1793, politician and soldier #
Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai Philippe-Antoine Merlin, known as Merlin de Douai (, 30 October 1754 – 26 December 1838) was a French politician and lawyer. Personal and public life Early years Merlin de Douai was born at Arleux, Nord, and was called to the Flemish bar ass ...
, 1803–1815, politician and lawyer; removed by ordinance # Antoine-François-Claude Ferrand, 1816–1825, magistrate, poet, historian and playwright #
Casimir Delavigne Jean-François Casimir Delavigne (4 April 179311 December 1843) was a French poet and dramatist. Life and career Delavigne was born at Le Havre, but was sent to Paris to be educated at the Lycée Napoleon. He read extensively. When, on 20 March ...
, 1825–1843, poet and playwright #
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (; 23 December 1804 – 13 October 1869) was a French literary critic. Early life He was born in Boulogne, educated there, and studied medicine at the Collège Charlemagne in Paris (1824–27). In 1828, he se ...
, 1844–1869, essayist and poet #
Jules Janin Jules Gabriel Janin (16 February 1804 – 19 June 1874) was a French writer and critic. Life and career Born in Saint-Étienne (Loire), Janin's father was a lawyer, and he was educated first at St. Étienne, and then at the lycée Louis-le-Gra ...
, 1870–1874, novelist and critic # John Lemoinne, 1875–1892, diplomat and journalist #
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 ...
, 1893–1906, literary critic, historian of literature and essayist # Henri Barboux, 1907–1910, lawyer #
Henry Roujon Henry Roujon (1 September 1853, Paris – 1 June 1914, Paris) was a French academic, essayist and novelist. Roujon was the secretary of Jules Ferry, and became director of Fine Arts in 1894. Later he was named secretary for life of the Acad ...
, 1911–1914, senior bureaucrat, essayist and novelist #
Louis Barthou Jean Louis Barthou (; 25 August 1862 – 9 October 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic who served as Prime Minister of France for eight months in 1913. In social policy, his time as prime minister saw the introduction (in Jul ...
, 1918–1934, politician, magistrate, historian and historian of literature; assassinated #
Claude Farrère Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (27 April 1876, in Lyon – 21 June 1957, in Paris), was a French Navy officer and writer. Many of his novels are based in exotic locations such as Istanbul, Saigon, or Nagasaki. One of ...
, 1935–1957, novelist, essayist and historian #
Henri Troyat Henri Troyat (born Lev Aslanovich Tarasov; – 2 March 2007) was a Russian-born French author, biographer, historian and novelist. Early life Lev Aslanovich Tarasov (russian: link=no, Лев Асланович Тарасов, ''Lev Aslanovich ...
, 1959–2007, novelist, historian of literature, historian #
Jean-Christophe Rufin Jean-Christophe Rufin (born 28 June 1952) is a French doctor, diplomat, historian, globetrotter and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger, one of the earliest members of Médecins Sans Frontières, and a member of the Académi ...
, elected 2008, physician and novelist


Seat 29

# Pierre Bardin, 1634–1635, philosopher and mathematician # Nicolas Bourbon, 1637–1644, ecclesiastic # François-Henri Salomon de Virelade, 1644–1670, lawyer #
Philippe Quinault Philippe Quinault (; 3 June 1635 – 26 November 1688), French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris. Biography Quinault was educated by the liberality of François Tristan l'Hermite, the author of ''Marianne''. Quinault's first play w ...
, 1670–1688, poet and playwright #
François de Callières François de Callières, sieur de Rochelay et de Gigny (14 May 1645, Thorigny-sur-Vire, Lower Normandy – 5 March 1717, Paris) was a member of the Académie française, a diplomat and writer, a special envoy of Louis XIV who was one of three French ...
, 1688–1717, philologist #
André-Hercule de Fleury André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, Archbishop of Aix (22 June or 26 June 165329 January 1743) was a French cardinal who served as the chief minister of Louis XV. Life and government He was born in Lodève, Hérault, the son of a tax f ...
, 1717–1743, ecclesiastic and politician # Paul d'Albert de Luynes, 1743–1788, ecclesiastic #
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (March 6, 1755 in the château of Florian, near Sauve, Gard – September 13, 1794 in Sceaux) was a French poet, novelist and fabulist. Life Florian's mother, a Spanish lady named Gilette de Salgues, died whe ...
, 1788–1794, playwright, novelist and poet # Jean-François Cailhava de L'Estandoux, 1803–1813, playwright, poet and critic # Joseph Michaud, 1813–1839, journalist and historian # Jean Pierre Flourens, 1840–1867, physiologist #
Claude Bernard Claude Bernard (; 12 July 1813 – 10 February 1878) was a French physiologist. Historian I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science". He originated the term ''milieu intérieur'', and the a ...
, 1868–1878, doctor #
Ernest Renan Joseph Ernest Renan (; 27 February 18232 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, expert of Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic. He wrote influe ...
, 1878–1892, philosopher #
Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour (19 May 1827 – 26 October 1896) was a French statesman. Biography Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour was born in Avranches in the Manche ''département'' of northwestern France. After passing through the École Normale ...
, 1893–1896, politician and diplomat #
Gabriel Hanotaux Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux (19 November 1853 – 11 April 1944) was a French statesman and historian. Biography He was born at Beaurevoir in the ''département'' of Aisne. He studied history at the École des C ...
, 1897–1944, politician, diplomat and historian #
André Siegfried André Siegfried (April 21, 1875 – March 28, 1959) was a French academic, geographer and political writer best known to English speakers for his commentaries on American, Canadian, and British politics. He was born in Le Havre, France, to Ju ...
, 1944–1959, historian and geographer #
Henry de Montherlant Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant (; 20 April 1895 – 21 September 1972) was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist. He was elected to the Académie française in 1960. Biography Born in Paris, a descendant o ...
, 1960–1972, playwright, novelist and essayist #
Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss (, ; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthro ...
, 1973–2009, anthropologist #
Amin Maalouf Amin Maalouf (; ar, أمين معلوف; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese-born French"Amin ...
, elected 2011, novelist


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Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (sometimes mistakenly listed as "marquis de Racan", although he never held this title) (5 February 1589 – 21 January 1670) was a French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and (original) member of the Aca ...
, 1634–1670, poet #
François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais (13 August 1632, Paris - 6 September 1713, Paris) was a French ecclesiastic, grammarian, diplomat and poet in French, Spanish and Latin. He also translated Alphonsus Rodriguez's ''The Practice of Christian Pe ...
, 1670–1713, ecclesiastic and grammarian #
Bernard de la Monnoye Bernard de La Monnoye (15 June 1641, in Dijon – 15 October 1728) was a French lawyer, poet, philologue and critic, known chiefly for his carols ''Noei borguignon'' ('' Borguignon Christmas''). Biography La Monnoye began his studies in Jesuit ...
, 1713–1728, philologist and critic # Michel Poncet de La Rivière, 1728–1730, ecclesiastic # Jacques Hardion. 1730–1766, historian #
Antoine Léonard Thomas Antoine is a French given name (from the Latin ''Antonius'' meaning 'highly praise-worthy') that is a variant of Danton, Titouan, D'Anton and Antonin. The name is used in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, West Greenland, Haiti, French Guiana ...
, 1766–1785, poet #
Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert (12 November 1743 – 6 May 1790) was a French general and military writer. Born at Montauban, he accompanied his father in wars before he became a general himself. In 1770, he published an essay on ta ...
, 1785–1790, playwright #
Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès 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 ...
, 1803- excluded by ordinance 1816, politician; died 1824 #
Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald (2 October 1754 – 23 November 1840) was a French counter-revolutionary philosopher and politician. He is mainly remembered for developing a theoretical framework from which French sociology would ...
, 1816–1840, philosopher and publicist #
Jacques-François Ancelot Jacques-Arsène-Polycarpe-François Ancelot (9 January 1794 – 7 September 1854) was a French dramatist and litterateur. Biography Born in Le Havre, Ancelot became a clerk in the admiralty, and retained his position until the Revolution of ...
, 1841–1854, poet, novelist and playwright #
Ernest Legouvé Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid Legouvé (; 14 February 180714 March 1903) was a French dramatist. Biography Son of the poet Gabriel-Marie Legouvé (1764–1812), he was born in Paris. His mother died in 1810, and almost immediately after ...
, 1855–1903, poet, novelist, playwright and essayist #
René Bazin René François Nicolas Marie Bazin (26 December 1853 – 20 July 1932) was a French novelist. Biography Born at Angers, he studied law in Paris, and on his return to Angers became Professor of Law in the Catholic university. In 1876, Bazin marr ...
, 1903–1932, novelist and essayist #
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 ...
, 1932–1935, historian who wrote under the pen name of G. Lenotre #
Georges Duhamel Georges Duhamel (; ; 30 June 1884 – 13 April 1966) was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published '' Confession de minuit'', the first of a serie ...
, 1935–1966, doctor, essayist, novelist, poet and playwright #
Maurice Druon Maurice Druon (23 April 1918 – 14 April 2009) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" (chairman) between 1985 and 1999. Life and career Born in Paris, France, Druon was the s ...
, 1966–2009, politician and novelist #
Danièle Sallenave Danièle Sallenave (born 28 October 1940) is a French novelist and journalist. In April 2011, she became a member of the Académie française. In 1980 Sallenave received the Prix Renaudot The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot () ...
, elected 2011, novelist and journalist


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Pierre de Boissat Pierre de Boissat (1603 in Vienne, Isère – 28 March 1662) was a soldier, writer, poet and translator. Knight and Count Palatine, Boissat began his career in the military. He was one of the first members of the Académie française, and firs ...
, 1634–1662, soldier #
Antoine Furetière Antoine Furetière (28 December 161914 May 1688) was a French scholar, writer, and lexicographer, known best for his satirical novel ''Scarron's City Romance''. He was expelled from the Académie Française for seeking to publish his own French ...
, 1662–1685, poet, fabulist and novelist; excluded but not replaced, died in 1688 #
Jean de La Chapelle Jean de La Chapelle (24 October 1651 – 29 May 1723) was a French writer and dramatist. He was born at Bourges, France, was elected to the Académie française in 1688, and died in Paris. Biography Born into minor nobility, nephew of Nicolas ...
, 1688–1723, poet #
Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet, Abbot of Olivet (1 April 1682, Salins-les-Bains – 8 October 1768, Paris) was a French abbot, writer, grammarian and translator. He was elected the fourth occupant of Académie française An academy (Att ...
, 1723–1768, ecclesiastic and grammarian #
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (; ; 30 September 17142 August or 3 August 1780) was a French philosopher and epistemologist, who studied in such areas as psychology and the philosophy of the mind. Biography He was born at Grenoble into a legal fam ...
, 1768–1780, ecclesiastic and philosopher #
Louis-Élisabeth de La Vergne de Tressan Louis-Élisabeth de la Vergne, comte de Tressan (4 November 1705, Le Mans - 31 October 1783, from a fall from a carriage en route to Saint-Leu-la-Forêt) was a French soldier, physician, scientist, medievalist and writer, best known for his adaptat ...
, 1780–1783, poet and physicist #
Jean Sylvain Bailly Jean Sylvain Bailly (; 15 September 1736 – 12 November 1793) was a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution. He presided over the Tennis Court Oath, served as the mayor of Par ...
, 1783–1793, mathematician; guillotined #
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès (3 May 174820 June 1836), usually known as the Abbé Sieyès (), was a French Roman Catholic '' abbé'', clergyman, and political writer who was the chief political theorist of the French Revolution (1789–1799); he also ...
, 1803–1816, ecclesiastic, essayist and diplomat; excluded by ordinance, died 1836 #
Gérard de Lally-Tollendal Trophime-Gérard, marquis de Lally-Tollendal (5 March 175111 March 1830) was a French politician and philanthropist. Born in Paris into an old aristocratic family, he was the legitimized son of Thomas Arthur de Lally, who served as viceroy in ...
, 1816–1830, politician # Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville, 1830–1870, poet # Xavier Marmier, 1870–1892, novelist and poet # Henri de Bornier, 1893–1901, playwright and poet #
Edmond Rostand Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (, , ; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 play ''Cyrano de Bergerac''. Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with t ...
, 1901–1918, playwright and poet #
Joseph Bédier Joseph Bédier (28 January 1864 – 29 August 1938) was a French writer and scholar and historian of medieval France. Biography Bédier was born in Paris, France, to Adolphe Bédier, a lawyer of Breton origin, and spent his childhood in Réunion. ...
, 1920–1938, philologist # Jérôme Tharaud, 1938–1953, novelist #
Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (, , ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost creatives of the su ...
, 1955–1963, playwright, poet, choreographer, filmmaker and painter #
Jacques Rueff Jacques Léon Rueff (23 August 1896 – 23 April 1978) was a French economist and adviser to the French government. Life An influential French conservative and free market thinker, Rueff was born the son of a well known Parisian physician and st ...
, 1964–1978, economist and high bureaucrat #
Jean Dutourd Jean Gwenaël Dutourd (; 14 January 192017 January 2011) was a French novelist. Biography Dutourd was born in Paris. His mother died when he was seven years old. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion ...
, 1978–2011, novelist # Michael Edwards, elected 2013, literary scholar


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Claude Favre de Vaugelas Claude Favre de Vaugelas (6 January 1585 – 26 February 1650) was a Savoyard grammarian and man of letters. Although a lifelong courtier, Claude Favre was widely known by the name of one of the landed estates he owned as '' seigneur'' of Va ...
, 1634–1650, grammarian #
Georges de Scudéry Georges de Scudéry (22 August 1601 – 14 May 1667), the elder brother of Madeleine de Scudéry, was a French novelist, dramatist and poet. Life Georges de Scudéry was born in Le Havre, in Normandy, whither his father had moved from Provence. ...
, 1650–1667, novelist, playwright and poet #
Philippe de Courcillon Philippe is a masculine sometimes feminin given name, cognate to Philip. It may refer to: * Philippe of Belgium (born 1960), King of the Belgians (2013–present) * Philippe (footballer) (born 2000), Brazilian footballer * Prince Philippe, Coun ...
, 1667–1720, soldier, governor and diplomat #
Armand de Vignerot du Plessis Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (; 13 March 1696 – 8 August 1788), was a French soldier, diplomat and statesman. He joined the army and participated in three major wars. He eventually rose to the rank of Mars ...
, 1720–1788, soldier, libertine and politician # François-Henri d'Harcourt, 1788–1802, soldier #
Lucien Bonaparte Lucien Bonaparte, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano (born Luciano Buonaparte; 21 May 1775 – 29 June 1840), was French politician and diplomat of the French Revolution and the Consulate. He served as Minister of the Interior from 1799 to 1800 ...
, 1803–1816, politician. Excluded by ordinance. #
Louis-Simon Auger Louis-Simon Auger (29 December 1772, in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in a ...
, 1816–1829, journalist and playwright #
Charles-Guillaume Étienne Charles-Guillaume Étienne (5 January 177813 March 1845) was a 19th-century French playwright. Biography He was born in Chamouilley, Haute-Marne. He held various municipal offices under the Revolution and came in 1793 to Paris, where he prod ...
, 1829–1845, poet and playwright #
Alfred de Vigny Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare. Biography Vigny was born in Loches (a town to which he never re ...
, 1845–1863, poet #
Camille Doucet Camille Doucet (16 May 1812 in Paris – 1 April 1895 in Paris) was a French poet and playwright. Biography Camille Doucet was born on 16 May, 1812, in Paris, France. He was a solicitor's clerk and notary, the secretary of Baron Fain in the ...
, 1865–1895, poet and playwright # Charles Costa de Beauregard, 1896–1909, historian and politician #
Hippolyte Langlois Hippolyte Langlois (3 August 1839 – 12 February 1912) was a French general noted for his writings on military science. Biography He was born at Besançon, Doubs, and, after passing through the École polytechnique, was appointed to the artille ...
, 1911–1912, soldier #
Émile Boutroux Étienne Émile Marie Boutroux (; 28 July 1845 – 22 November 1921) was an eminent 19th-century French philosopher of science and religion, and a historian of philosophy. He was a firm opponent of materialism in science. He was a spiritual p ...
, 1912–1921, philosopher and historian of philosophy #
Pierre de Nolhac Pierre Girault de Nolhac (15 December 1859, Ambert – 31 January 1936, Paris), known as Pierre de Nolhac, was a French historian, art historian and poet. Biography After studying at Le Puy-en-Velay, in Rodez and Clermont-Ferrand, Pierre d ...
, 1922–1936, historian, art historian and poet #
Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente (5 May 1872 – 5 May 1959) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Le Mans from 1918 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII ...
, 1936–1959, ecclesiastic, historian and essayist #
Henri Massis Henri Massis (21 March 1886 – 16 April 1970) was a conservative French essayist, literary critic and literary historian. Biography Massis was born on 21 March 1886 in Paris, France. He attended Lycée Condorcet and University of Paris. He began ...
, 1960–1970, essayist, literary critic and literary historian # Georges Izard, 1971–1973, politician, lawyer, journalist and essayist #
Robert Aron Robert Aron (1898–1975) was a French historian and writer who wrote a number of books on politics and European history. Early life and career Robert Aron was born in Le Vésinet on 25 May 1898 to an upper-class Jewish family from eastern France ...
, 1974–1975, historian and essayist #
Maurice Rheims Maurice Rheims (4 January 1910 – 6 March 2003) was a French art auctioneer, art historian and novelist, born in Versailles. He administered the estate of the painter Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) ...
, 1976–2003, novelist and art historian #
Alain Robbe-Grillet Alain Robbe-Grillet (; 18 August 1922 – 18 February 2008) was a French writer and filmmaker. He was one of the figures most associated with the '' Nouveau Roman'' (new novel) trend of the 1960s, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and C ...
, 2004–2008, novelist and filmmaker #
François Weyergans François Weyergans (; 2 August 1941 – 27 May 2019) was a Belgian writer and director. His father, Franz Weyergans, was a Belgian and also a writer, while his mother was from Avignon in France. François Weyergans was elected to the Académie ...
, 2009–2019, novelist and filmmaker #
Pascal Ory Pascal Ory (born 31 July 1948) is a French historian. A student of René Rémond, he specialises in cultural and political history and has written on Fascism ever since his master's dissertation on the Greenshirts of Henri Dorgères. In the 1 ...
, elected 2021, historian


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Vincent Voiture Vincent Voiture (24 February 1597 – 26 May 1648), French poet and writer of prose, was the son of a rich wine merchant of Amiens. He was introduced by a schoolfellow, the count Claude d'Avaux, to Gaston, Duke of Orléans, and accompanied him ...
, 1634–1648, poet #
François Eudes de Mézeray François Eudes de Mézeray (1610 – 10 July 1683) was a French historian. Mézeray was born at Ri near Argentan, where his father was a surgeon. He had two brothers, one of whom, Jean-Eudes, was the founder of the order of the Eudists. Fr ...
, 1648–1683, lawyer #
Jean Barbier d'Aucour Jean Barbier d'Aucour (1 September 1641, Langres – 3 September 1694, Paris) was a French lawyer to the parliament of Paris, ardent Jansenist Jansenism was an early modern theological movement within Catholicism, primarily active in the ...
, 1683–1694, lawyer #
François de Clermont-Tonnerre François de Clermont-Tonnerre (1629 – 15 February 1701) was a French aristocrat and cleric. He served as the Count of Noyon, Bishop of Noyon, a pair de France and a member of the Conseil d'État. Early life Jean François de Clermont-Tonnerre ...
, 1694–1701, ecclesiastic # Nicolas de Malézieu, 1701–1727, tutor and poet # Jean Bouhier, 1727–1746, magistrate and archaeologist # François-Marie Arouet dit Voltaire, 1746–1778, playwright, historian, philosopher and poet #
Jean-François Ducis Jean-François Ducis (; 22 August 173331 March 1816) was a French dramatist and adapter of Shakespeare. Biography Ducis was born in Versailles, one of ten children. His father, Pierre Ducis, originally from Savoy, was a linen draper at Versa ...
, 1778–1816, poet and playwright #
Raymond Desèze Raymond Romain, Comte de Sèze or Desèze (26 September 17502 May 1828) was a French advocate. Together with François Tronchet and Malesherbes, he defended Louis XVI, when the king was brought before the Convention for trial. Life Raymond de S ...
, 1816–1828, lawyer #
Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante (June 10, 1782November 22, 1866) was a French statesman and historian. Associated with the center-left, he was described in France as the first man to call himself, "without any embarrassment ...
, 1828–1866, politician # Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry, 1867–1872, ecclesiastic and philosopher # René Taillandier, 1873–1879, politician #
Maxime Du Camp Maxime Du Camp (8 February 1822 – 9 February 1894) was a French writer and photographer. Biography Born in Paris, Du Camp was the son of a successful surgeon. After finishing college, he indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to ...
, 1880–1894, essayist and novelist #
Paul Bourget Paul Charles Joseph Bourget (; 2 September 185225 December 1935) was a French poet, novelist and critic. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Life Paul Bourget was born in Amiens in the Somme ''département'' of P ...
, 1894–1935, novelist, poet and playwright #
Edmond Jaloux Edmond Jaloux (19 June 1878, Marseille – 22 August 1949, Lutry) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic. His works tended to be set in Paris or his native Provence. He was interested in German Romanticism and English writers. In 1936 h ...
, 1936–1949, novelist, literary critic and literary historian #
Jean-Louis Vaudoyer Jean-Louis Vaudoyer (10 September 1883, in Le Plessis-Robinson, Hauts-de-Seine – 20 May 1963) was a French novelist, poet, essayist and art historian. He was also administrator general of the Comédie-Française The Comédie-Française () o ...
, 1950–1963, novelist, poet, essayist and art historian #
Marcel Brion Marcel Brion (; 21 November 1895 – 23 October 1984) was a French essayist, literary critic, novelist, and historian. Early life The son of a lawyer, Brion was classmates in Thiers with Marcel Pagnol and Albert Cohen. After completing his ...
, 1964–1984, novelist, art historian and essayist #
Michel Mohrt Michel Mohrt (28 April 1914 – 17 August 2011) was an editor, essayist, novelist and historian of French literature. Mohrt was born in Morlaix, Finistère. He was elected to the Académie française on 18 April 1985. Mohrt died at the age of ...
, 1985–2011, editor, essayist, novelist and literary historian #
Dominique Bona Dominique Bona (born 29 July 1953 in Perpignan) is a French writer. Life She won the 2000 Bourse Goncourt for biography, and 1998 Prix Renaudot. She was literary critic for ''Le Figaro'' and ''Le Journal du dimanche ''Le Journal du diman ...
, elected 2013, novelist


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# Honorat de Porchères Laugier, 1634–1653, poet #
Paul Pellisson Paul Pellisson (30 October 1624 – 7 February 1693) was a French author. Pellisson was born in Béziers, of a distinguished Calvinist family. He studied law at Toulouse, and practised at the bar of Castres. Going to Paris with letters of intr ...
, 1653–1693, historian # François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon, 1693–1715, ecclesiastic and essayist #
Claude Gros de Boze Claude Gros de Boze (28 January 1680 – 10 September 1753) was a French scholar and numismatist. Biography De Boze was born at Lyon. Studying in Lyon and Paris, and settling in the latter around 1700, he gained the support of Nicolas-Joseph ...
, 1715–1753, erudite and numismatist # Louis de Bourbon Condé de Clermont, 1753–1771, ecclesiastic #
Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy or Dormont De Belloy (17 November 17275 March 1775) was a French dramatist and actor. Life He was born at Saint-Flour, Cantal, and was educated by his uncle, a distinguished advocate in Paris, for the bar. To esca ...
, 1771–1775, playwright and actor # Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort de Duras, 1775–1789, politician and soldier #
Dominique Joseph Garat Dominique Joseph Garat (8 September 17499 December 1833) was a French Basque writer, lawyer, journalist, philosopher and politician. Biography Garat was born at Bayonne, in the French Basque Country. After a good education under the direction ...
, 1803–1816, politician, lawyer and philosopher. Excluded by ordinance, he refused readmission in 1829, died 1833 #
Louis-François de Bausset Louis-François de Bausset (14 December 1748 – 21 June 1824) was a French cardinal, writer and member of the Académie française. He was Vicar-General of the Diocese of Aix and Digne before being nominated a bishop. He was nominated Bi ...
, 1816–1824, ecclesiastic and politician #
Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen Hyacinthe-Louis De Quélen (8 October 1778 – 31 December 1839) was an Archbishop of Paris. Biography De Quélen was born in Paris, in the Quélen noble Breton family. His motto "Em Pob Emser Quelen" and the older Breton expression for "Be ...
, 1824–1839, ecclesiastic #
Louis-Mathieu Molé Louis-Mathieu Molé (24 January 1781 – 23 November 1855), also 1st Count Molé from 1809 to 1815, was a French statesman, close friend and associate of Louis Philippe I, King of the French during the July Monarchy (1830–1848). Biograph ...
, 1840–1855, politician #
Frédéric Alfred Pierre, comte de Falloux Frédéric-Alfred-Pierre, comte de Falloux (7 May 1811 – 6 January 1886) was a French politician and author, famous for having given his name to two laws on education, favoring private Catholic teaching. Biography Falloux was born at Angers, Ma ...
, 1856–1886, politician and historian # Octave Gréard, 1886–1904, high bureaucrat, literary historian and literary critic #
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 ...
, 1904–1908, art historian, literary historian and literary critic #
Raymond Poincaré Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré (, ; 20 August 1860 – 15 October 1934) was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1913 to 1920, and three times as Prime Minister of France. Trained in law, Poincaré was elected deputy in 1 ...
, 1909–1934, head of state, politician, lawyer and essayist #
Jacques Bainville Jacques Pierre Bainville (; 9 February 1879 – 9 February 1936) was a French historian and journalist. A geopolitical theorist, concerned by Franco-German relations, he was a leading figure in the monarchist ''Action Française''. As fascinated a ...
, 1935–1936, historian and journalist #
Joseph de Pesquidoux Joseph Dubosc, count of Pesquidoux (13 December 1869 in Savigny-lès-Beaune, Côte-d'Or – 17 March 1946 in Houga), also known as Joseph de Pesquidoux, was a French writer. History In 1927 he won the Grand prix de littérature de l’ Acadé ...
, 1936–1946, novelist and essayist #
Maurice Genevoix Maurice Genevoix (; 29 November 1890 – 8 September 1980) was a French author. Life Born on 29 November 1890 at Decize, Nièvre as Maurice-Charles-Louis-Genevoix, Genevoix spent his childhood in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire. After attending the loca ...
, 1946–1980, novelist #
Jacques de Bourbon-Busset Jacques de Bourbon, Count de Busset (27 April 1912, Paris – 7 May 2001, Paris) was a French novelist, essayist and politician. He was elected to the Académie française on 4 June 1981. He was a senior member of the House of Bourbon-Busset. Bi ...
, 1981–2001, politician, essayist and novelist # François Cheng, elected 2002, poet, translator and novelist


Seat 35

# Henri Louis Habert de Montmor, 1634–1679, hotel-keeper # Louis de Lavau, 1679–1694, ecclesiastic # François Lefebvre de Caumartin, 1694–1733, ecclesiastic # François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif, 1733–1770, poet, musician and playwright # Jean-Armand de Bessuéjouls Roquelaure, 1771–1818, ecclesiastic # Georges Cuvier, 1818–1832, palaeontologist # André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin, 1832–1865, politician and lawyer # Alfred-Auguste Cuvillier-Fleury, 1866–1887, historian and literary critic # Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, 1888–1913, novelist, playwright and critic # Joseph Joffre, 1918–1931, politician and soldier # Maxime Weygand, 1931–1965, soldier # Louis Leprince-Ringuet, 1966–2000, physicist, telecommunications engineer, historian of science and essayist # Yves Pouliquen, 2001–2020, medical doctor # Antoine Compagnon, elected 2022, academic


Seat 36

# Marin Cureau de la Chambre, 1634–1669, medical doctor and philosopher # Pierre Cureau de La Chambre, 1670–1693, ecclesiastic # Jean de La Bruyère, 1693–1696, essayist and moralist # Claude Fleury, 1696–1723, ecclesiastic # Jacques Adam, 1723–1735, philologist # Joseph Séguy, 1736–1761, ecclesiastic # Cardinal de Rohan, Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan, 1761–1793, ecclesiastic, politician, philosopher and poet # Jean Devaines, 1803, state bureaucrat # Évariste de Parny, 1803–1814, poet # Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, 1815–1846, journalist, critic and playwright # Adolphe-Simonis Empis, 1847–1868, poet and playwright # Henri Auguste Barbier, 1869–1882, poet # Adolphe Perraud, 1882–1906, ecclesiastic # François-Désiré Mathieu, 1906–1908, ecclesiastic and historian # Louis Duchesne, 1910–1922, ecclesiastic, historian and philologist # Henri Brémond, 1923–1933, ecclesiastic, literary historian and literary critic # André Bellessort, 1935–1942, essayist, literary critic, historian and historian of literature # René Grousset, 1946–1952, art historian # Pierre Gaxotte, 1953–1982, historian and journalist # Jacques Soustelle, 1983–1990, Americanist, ethnologist, politician and essayist # Jean-François Deniau, 1990–2007, politician, essayist and novelist # Philippe Beaussant, 2007–2016, musicologist and novelist # Barbara Cassin, 2018–present, philologist and philosopher


Seat 37

# Daniel Hay du Chastelet de Chambon, 1635–1671, ecclesiastic and mathematician # Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, 1671–1704, ecclesiastic and historian # Melchior de Polignac, 1704–1741, ecclesiastic, politician, philologist and poet # Odet-Joseph Giry, 1741–1761, ecclesiastic # Charles Batteux, 1761–1780, ecclesiastic # Antoine-Marin Lemierre, 1780–1793, poet and playwright # Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de Préameneu, 1803–1825, politician and lawyer # Mathieu de Montmorency, 1825–1826, politician and diplomat # Alexandre Guiraud, 1826–1847, playwright, poet and novelist # Jean-Jacques Ampère, 1847–1864, historian of literature # Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol, 1865–1870, literary critic # Camille Rousset, 1871–1892, historian # Paul Thureau-Dangin, 1893–1913, historian # Pierre de La Gorce, 1914–1934, historian, magistrate and lawyer # Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie, 1934–1960, sailor and physicist # Eugène Tisserant, 1961–1972, ecclesiastic and philologist # Jean Daniélou, 1972–1974, ecclesiastic, theologian, historian and essayist # Ambroise-Marie Carré, 1975–2004, ecclesiastic # René Girard, 2005–2015, philosopher, literary critic # Michel Zink, elected 2017, medievalist, philologist and novelist


Seat 38

# Auger de Moléon de Granier, 1635–1636, possibly an ecclesiastic; expelled for theft; died 1650 # Balthazar Baro, 1636–1650, playwright and poet # Jean Doujat, 1650–1688, lawyer # Eusèbe Renaudot, 1688–1720, ecclesiastic # Henri-Emmanuel de Roquette, 1720–1725, ecclesiastic # Pierre de Pardaillan de Gondrin, 1725–1733, ecclesiastic # Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur, 1733–1774, economist and statistician # Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, 1775–1794, politician and magistrate; guillotined # François Andrieux, 1803–1833, lawyer, poet and playwright # Adolphe Thiers, 1833–1877, politician and historian # Henri Martin (historian), Henri Martin, 1878–1883, historian # Ferdinand de Lesseps, 1884–1894, diplomat # Anatole France, 1896–1924, novelist and poet # Paul Valéry, 1925–1945, poet, literary critic and essayist # Henri Mondor, 1946–1962, surgeon, physician, historian of literature and of science # Louis Armand, 1963–1971, mining engineer, bureaucrat and economist # Jean-Jacques Gautier, 1972–1986, drama critic, novelist, journalist and essayist # Jean-Louis Curtis, 1986–1995, novelist and essayist # François Jacob, 1996–2013, biologist # Marc Lambron, elected 2014, literary critic and writer


Seat 39

# Louis Giry, 1636–1665, lawyer # Claude Boyer, 1666–1698, ecclesiastic, playwright and poet # Charles-Claude Genest, 1698–1719, ecclesiastic # Jean-Baptiste Dubos, 1720–1742, ecclesiastic and historian # Jean-François Du Bellay du Resnel, 1742–1761, ecclesiastic # Bernard-Joseph Saurin, 1761–1781, lawyer and poet # Marquis de Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, 1782–1794, philosopher and mathematician # Gabriel Villar, 1803–1826, ecclesiastic # Charles-Marie de Féletz, 1826–1850, ecclesiastic # Désiré Nisard, 1850–1888, essayist # Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, 1888–1910, essayist, historian, literary critic and diplomat # Henri de Régnier, 1911–1936, poet, novelist and essayist # Jacques de Lacretelle, 1936–1985, novelist # Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, 1986–2006, journalist, essayist and novelist # Jean Clair, elected 2008, essayist and art historian


Seat 40

# Daniel de Priézac, 1639–1662, law professor # Michel Le Clerc, 1662–1691, lawyer # Jacques de Tourreil, 1692–1714, translator # Jean-Roland Malet, 1714–1736, economist and royal valet de chambre # Jean-François Boyer, 1736–1755, ecclesiastic # Nicolas Thyrel de Boismont, 1755–1786, ecclesiastic # Claude-Carloman de Rulhière, 1787–1791, diplomat, poet and historian # Pierre Jean George Cabanis, 1803–1808, medical doctor and physiologist # Antoine Destutt de Tracy, 1808–1836, philosopher # François Guizot, 1836–1874, politician and historian # Jean-Baptiste Dumas, 1875–1884, politician and chemist # Joseph Louis François Bertrand, 1884–1900, mathematician, historian of science # Marcellin Berthelot, 1900–1907, politician, chemist, essayist, historian of science # Francis Charmes, 1908–1916, diplomat and journalist # Jules Cambon, 1918–1935, diplomat, lawyer, senior civil servant # Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze, 1936–1955, admiral # Jacques Chastenet, 1956–1978, journalist, historian and diplomat # Georges Dumézil, 1978–1986, philologist and historian of civilisations # Pierre-Jean Rémy, 1988–2010, diplomat, novelist and essayist # Xavier Darcos, elected 2013, politician, scholar and civil servant


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Académie française: Les immortels
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