Académie des sciences d'outre-mer (formerly ) is a learned society created in 1922 whose field of activity is mainly

geography Geography (from Ancient Greek ; combining 'Earth' and 'write', literally 'Earth writing') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding o ...

and general

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Oceania. Its headquarters are located in the

16th arrondissement of Paris The 16th arrondissement of Paris (; ) is the westernmost of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, the capital city of France. Located on the city's Right Bank, it is adjacent to the 17th and 8th arrondissements to the northeast, as well as to the ...

, at no. 15 rue La Pérouse. Académie des sciences d'outre-mer (The Academy of Overseas Sciences) was founded in 1922 to study questions specific to the colonies, under the name of Académie des sciences coloniales (Academy of Colonial Sciences). The opening session took place at the Sorbonne on May 18, 1923, under the presidency of

Albert Sarraut Albert-Pierre Sarraut (; 28 July 1872 – 26 November 1962) was a French Radical politician, twice Prime Minister during the Third Republic. Biography Sarraut was born on 28 July 1872 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. On 14 March 1907 Sarraut ...

, Minister of Colonies, and in the presence of its founding president,

Albert Lebrun Albert François Lebrun (; 29 August 1871 – 6 March 1950) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1932 to 1940. He was the last president of the Third Republic. He was a member of the centre-right Democratic Republica ...

, a former minister, and its first perpetual secretary, Paul Bourdarie, who launched the four verbs "to know, to understand, to respect, to love" that would become the academy's motto. On June 7, 1957, the academy was renamed the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer.Gény, Pierre, "Les 90 ans de l’Académie des sciences d’outre-mer en 2012", broadcast on , June 2012. The academy has a library containing more than 70,000 works, making it a reference for documentation on the former colonies and overseas territories. In 2014, it incorporated the Africa and Overseas holdings of the former Documentation française, i.e. nearly 60,000 additional books and 1,600 periodicals.

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{{authority control Learned societies of France Academies of sciences 1922 establishments in France