The Académie de Marseille (English: Academy of Marseille), officially the Académie des sciences, lettres et arts de Marseille, is a French

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based in

Marseille Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the ...

. It was founded in 1726 and includes those in the city involved in

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s, and

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History

The Académie de Marseille was created by

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Louis XV Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defi ...

in August 1726, which stated in particular that the number of members would be limited to twenty. The founding document furthermore stated that all twenty members must live in

. However, the actual number of founding members was twenty-one, due to the insistence of that Henri de Belsunce also be offered membership. This was rectified in 1730 when resigned from the Académie and was not replaced.

Founding Members

Bibliography

External links

Académie de Marseille - official site
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