France
- The 5 académies of the Institut de France:
- Académie des Beaux-Arts
- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques
- Académie des sciences
- Académie française
- Académie des Technologies
- Société Mathématique de France
- Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles
Read more about this topic: List Of Learned Societies
Famous quotes containing the word france:
“Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.”
—Lillian Hellman (1907–1984)
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets or steal bread.”
—Anatole France (1844–1924)
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