The Société des Antiquaires de France (Society of Antiquaries of France) is a Parisian historical and archaeological society, founded in 1804 under the name of the Académie celtique (Celtic Academy). It is now based at the

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, in the pavillon Mollien.

History

The Académie celtique was founded by prefect Jacques Cambry, Jacques-Antoine Dulaure and Jacques Le Brigant on 9 germinal Year XII (30 March 1804), with the goal of studying Gallic civilization and French history and archaeology. Cambry was its first president, until his death in 1807. In 1813 it changed its name to the Société des Antiquaires de France, after the

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, and from 1814 to 1848 it changed again to the Société royale des antiquaires de France under the

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. According to the regime in France, it was then called the Société impériale des antiquaires de France or Société nationale des antiquaires de France, but it re-assumed its present name in 1871, and has not changed it since. Since its foundation it has published a collection of ''

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s'', and of ''Bulletins'', as well as an annual directory of its members.

Some members

The site of the Société nationale des Antiquaires de France publishes prosopographical records of its members among which are: * Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois (1777-1837) *

Bernard Germain de Lacépède Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède or La Cépède (; 26 December 17566 October 1825) was a French natural history, naturalist and an active freemason. He is known for his contribution to the Comte de Buffon's g ...

(1756-1825) *

Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage Jean-Denis Barbié (28 April 1760 - 28 December 1825) was a French geographer and cartographer, dean of the Faculté de lettres de Paris and a member of the Institut de France. He was also known as Barbié du Bocage and Barbier du Bocage. Life ...

(1760-1825) *

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (; 2 April 1755 – 2 February 1826) was a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of ''Physiologie du goût'' (''The Physiology of Taste''), became celebrated for his culinary reminiscences and reflect ...

(1755-1826) * Jacques-Antoine Dulaure (1755-1835) * Gabriel Vaugeois (1753-1836) *

Alexandre Lenoir Marie Alexandre Lenoir (; 27 December 1761 – 11 June 1839) was a French archaeologist. Self-taught, he devoted himself to saving France's historic monuments, sculptures and tombs from the ravages of the French Revolution, notably those of Sain ...

(1761-1839) * Alexandre du Sommerard (1779-1842) *

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 writi ...

(1780-1844) *

Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (26 October 1780 – 10 November 1850) was a French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style. He received his first training from his father and drew from him his piquant subjects and great facility, perfecting ...

(1780-1850) *

François Guizot François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (; 4 October 1787 – 12 September 1874) was a French historian, orator and Politician, statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics between the July Revolution, Revolution of 1830 and the Revoluti ...

(1787-1874) *

Auguste Mariette François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (11 February 182118 January 1881) was a French scholar, archaeologist and Egyptologist, and the founder of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, the forerunner of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Earl ...

(1821-1881) * Jules Quicherat (1814-1882) * Gustave de Clausade (1815-1888) * Maximin Deloche (1817-1900) *

Ernest Renan Joseph Ernest Renan (; ; 27 February 18232 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, writing on Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic. He wrote wo ...

(1823-1892) * Louis Courajod (1841-1896) * Lecoy de La Marche (1839-1897) *

Alexandre Bertrand Alexandre Louis Joseph Bertrand (11 June 1820 – 1902) was a French archaeologist born in Rennes. Life He was the son of physician Alexandre Jacques François Bertrand (1795-1831) and elder brother to mathematician Joseph Louis François ...

(1820-1902) *

Auguste Molinier Auguste Molinier (30 September 185119 May 1904) was a French historian. Biography Born in Toulouse, Auguste Molinier was a student at the École Nationale des Chartes, which he left in 1873, and also at the École pratique des hautes études; an ...

(1851-1904) * Louis Demaison (1852–1937) * Léopold Delisle (1826-1910) * Auguste Longnon (1844-1911) * Antoine Héron de Villefosse (1845-1919) *

Louis Duchesne Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne (; 13 September 1843 – 21 April 1922) was a French priest, philology, philologist, teacher and a critical historian of Christianity and Roman Catholic liturgy and institutions. Life Descended from a family of Bri ...

(1843-1922) * Henri-François Delaborde (1854-1927) *

Gustave Schlumberger Gustave Léon Schlumberger (17 October 1844 – 9 May 1929) was a French historian and numismatist who specialised in the era of the crusades and the Byzantine Empire. His ' (1878–82) is still considered the principal work on the coinage of the ...

(1844-1929) * François Martroye (1852–1933), historian of ancient Rome * Joseph Berthelot, baron de Baye (1853- 1931) * Paul Fournier (1853-1935) * Paul Monceaux (1859-1941) * Marcel Aubert (1884-1962) *

Jérôme Carcopino Jérôme Carcopino (27 June 1881 – 17 March 1970) was a French historian, author, and Nazi collaborator. He was the fifteenth member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française, in 1955. Biography Carcopino was born at Verneuil-sur-A ...

(1881-1970) * Jean Vallery-Radot (1890-1971) *

Paul Deschamps Paul may refer to: People * Paul (given name), a given name, including a list of people * Paul (surname), a list of people * Paul the Apostle, an apostle who wrote many of the books of the New Testament * Ray Hildebrand, half of the singing duo P ...

(1888-1974) * Charles Perrat (1899-1976) * Henri-Irénée Marrou (1904-1977) * Jean Babelon (1889-1978) *

Hans-Georg Pflaum Hans-Georg Pflaum (3 June 1902, Berlin – 26 December 1979, Linz) was a German-born French historian. Life Pflaum, who came from a Jewish family of industrialists, at first studied law in Breslau and Heidelberg, afterwards taking a position in ...

(1902-1979) * Charles Samaran (1879-1982) * Michel de Boüard (1909-1989) * André Grabar (1896-1990) *

André Chastel André Chastel (15 November 1912, Paris – 18 July 1990, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French art historian, author of an important work on the Italian Renaissance. He was a professor at the Collège de France, where he held the chair of art and civil ...

(1912-1990) *

Jacques Dubois Jacques Dubois ( Latinised as Jacobus Sylvius; 1478 – 14 January 1555) was a French anatomist. Dubois was the first to describe venous valves, although their function was later discovered by William Harvey. He was the brother of Franciscus Sy ...

(1919-1991) * Louis Carolus-Barré (1910-1993) * Jean Hubert (1902-1994) *

Jacques Heurgon Jacques Heurgon (25 January 1903 – 27 October 1995) was a French university, normalian, Etruscan scholar and Latinist, professor of Latin language and literature at the Sorbonne. Married to Anne Heurgon-Desjardins, founder in 1952, of the C ...

(1903-1995) *

André Chastagnol André Chastagnol (21 February 1920 – 2 September 1996) was a French historian, specializing in Latin epigraphy and literature. After teaching at the Universities of Algiers, Rennes and Paris-X, he finished his career as a professor at the Pa ...

(1920-1996) * Laurent-François Dethier (1757-1843) * Paul-Marie Duval (1912-1997) * Léon Pressouyre (1935-2009) * Robert-Henri Bautier (1922-2010) *

Claude Lepelley Claude Lepelley (8 February 1934 – 31 January 2015
on DRACONTIUS) was a 20th-21st-century F ...

(1934-2015) * Gabriel Peignot * Gustave de Clausade * Jean-François Le Gonidec * Léopold Delisle * Fortia d’Urban *

Philippe Contamine Philippe Contamine (7 May 1932 – 26 January 2022) was a French historian of the Middle Ages who specialised in military history and the history of the nobility. Life Contamine was a president of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettr ...

, its present secrétaire * Almudena Domínguez Arranz (born 1949)

Some foreign members

Wilhelm von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a German philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1949, the university was named aft ...

(1767–1835) * Ferdinand Keller (1800–1881) *

Giovanni Battista De Rossi Giovanni Battista (Carlo) de Rossi (23 February 1822 – 20 September 1894) was an Italian archaeologist, famous even outside his field for rediscovering early Christian catacombs. Life and works Born in Rome, he was the son of Commendatore C ...

(1822–1894) * Otto Hirschfeld (1843–1922) *

Karl Ferdinand Werner Karl Ferdinand Werner (Neunkirchen, Saarland 1924 – Tegernsee 2008) was a German historian. He particularly studied historiography, the Early Middle Ages and the origins of European nobility Nobility is a social class found in many societie ...

(1924–2008) * Teofilo Ruiz

Publications

* ''Mémoires de l’Académie Celtique ou Mémoires d’Antiquités Celtiques, Gauloises et Françaises'', 5 volumes, 1807-1812. * ''Mémoires de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 1e série, 10 volumes (I à X), 1817-1834. * ''Mémoires de la Société royale des Antiquaires de France'', 2e série, 10 volumes (XI à XX), 1835-1850. * ''Mémoires de la Société impériale des Antiquaires de France'', 3e série, 10 volumes (XXI à XXX), 1852-1868. * ''Mémoires de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 4e série, 10 volumes (XXXI''Mémoires de la Société impériale des Antiquaires de France'', tome XXXI., Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, 1870, vol. 31, n° 1, pp. 371-37

/ref> à XL), 1869-1879. * ''Mémoires de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 5e série, 10 volumes (XLI à L), 1880-1889. * ''Mémoires de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 6e série, 10 volumes (LI à LX), 1890-1899. * ''Mémoires de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 7e série, 10 volumes (LXI à LXX), 1900-1910. * ''Mémoires de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 8e série, 10 volumes (LXXI à LXXX), 1911-1937. * ''Mémoires de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 9e série, 5 volumes (LXXXI à LXXXIV), 1944-2010. * ''Table alphabétique des publications de l’Académie celtique et de la Société des Antiquaires de France (1807-1889)'', Paris, Klincksieck, 1894. * ''Table alphabétique des publications de la Société des Antiquaires de France (1890-1938)'', Paris, 1944. * ''Table alphabétique des publications de la Société des Antiquaires de France (1939-1991)'', Paris, 1994. * ''Mettensia. Mémoires et documents'', 7 volumes (I à VII), 1897-1919. * ''Mettensia. Mémoires et documents'', fasc. 1-4 (VIII), 1923-1927. * ''Centenaire 1804-1904'', Paris, 1904. * ''Mélanges en hommage à la mémoire de François Martroye'' (1940). * ''Mémorial d’un voyage d’études de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France en Rhénanie'' (1953) * ''Cent-cinquantenaire de la Société'', Mémoires LXXXIII (1954). * ''Bicentenaire 1804-2004'', Mémoires 9e série t. V, Paris, De Boccard, 2010. * ''Bulletin de la Société impériale des Antiquaires de France'', 1852-1870 * ''Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France'', 1870 —

Bibliography

* Nicole Belmont (édition et préface) : ''Aux sources de l’ ethnology, ethnologie française : l’Académie celtique''. Edit. du C.T.H.S., 1995, . * BELMONT (Nicole), “L’Académie celtique et George Sand. Les débuts des recherches folkloriques en France”, ''Romantisme'', Vol. 5, n° 9, 1975, p. 29-38. * BELMONT (Nicole), CHAMARAT (Josselyne), GLÜCK Denise et al. “L’Académie celtique”, in: ''Hier pour demain. Arts, Traditions et Patrimoine, catalogue d’exposition du Grand-Palais, 13 juin-1er septembre 1980'', Paris, RNM, 1980, p. 54-77. * DURRY (Marie-Jeanne), “L’Académie celtique et la chanson populaire”, ''Revue de littérature comparée'', tome IX, 1929, p. 62-73. * GAIDOZ (Henri), “De l’influence de l’Académie celtique sur les études de folk-lore”, ''Recueil du Centenaire de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France, 1804-1904'', p. 135-143. * OZOUF (Mona), “L’invention de l’ethnographie française : le questionnaire de l’Académie celtique”, ''Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales'', Vol. 36, n° 2, 1981, p. 210-230.

References

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