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Académie Française

pre-eminent council for the French language
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Summary

Académie Française is a learned society[1]. It ranks in the top 0.83% of learned society entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,172 views/month, #2 of 241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: French[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: 6th arrondissement of Paris[4]
  • Country: France[5]
  • Instance of: national academy[6], language regulator[7]
  • Official language: French[8]
  • Founder: Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu[9]
  • Headquarters location: Paris[10]
  • Has organizational division: French[11]
  • Part of: Institut de France[12]
  • Commons category: Académie française[13]
  • Industry: higher education[14]
  • Has part(s): Dominique Bona[15], Jean-Denis Bredin[16], Gabriel de Broglie[17], Hélène Carrère d'Encausse[18], François Cheng[19], Jean Clair[20], Jean-Loup Dabadie[21], Claude Dagens[22], Xavier Darcos[23], Florence Delay[24], Michel Déon[25], Michael Edwards[26], Dominique Fernandez[27], Alain Finkielkraut[28]

Why It Matters

Académie Française has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 84 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Works attributed to it include Dictionnaire de l'Académie française[31], a written work[32].

Related Entities

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [9] ↑ . Oxford Companion to the Book (First Edition). wikidata.org.
  7. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . academie-francaise.fr. academie-francaise.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . academie-francaise.fr. academie-francaise.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . academie-francaise.fr. academie-francaise.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . academie-francaise.fr. academie-francaise.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . academie-francaise.fr. academie-francaise.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . academie-francaise.fr. academie-francaise.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . academie-francaise.fr. academie-francaise.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . academie-francaise.fr. academie-francaise.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . academie-francaise.fr. academie-francaise.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . academie-francaise.fr. academie-francaise.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . academie-francaise.fr. academie-francaise.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . academie-francaise.fr. academie-francaise.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . academie-francaise.fr. academie-francaise.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . academie-francaise.fr. academie-francaise.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16d ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'br'
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  2. 5w ago · StorchPDF · 2026-09-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  3. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → academie-francaise
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  4. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  5. 15w ago · Daieuxetdailleurs · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → http://www.academie-francaise.fr/, https://www.academie-francaise.fr/
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  6. 16w ago · Legonin · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  9. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0267658-Academie-de-Paris
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