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French Academy of Sciences

learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research
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Summary

French Academy of Sciences is an academy of sciences[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of academy of sciences entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,602 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Committee on Space Research[3], InterAcademy Partnership[4], International Science Council[5], European Academies Science Advisory Council[6]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: 6th arrondissement of Paris[7]
  • Country: France[8]
  • Instance of: national academy[9], archives[10]
  • Founder: Jean-Baptiste Colbert[11]
  • Headquarters location: Paris[12]
  • Part of: Institut de France[13]
  • Commons category: Académie des sciences (France)[14]
  • Industry: Public administration in healthcare and social services[15]
  • Chairperson: Françoise Combes[16]
  • Inception: December 22, 1666[17]
  • Official website: http://www.academie-sciences.fr/[18], https://www.academie-sciences.fr/[19], https://www.academie-sciences.fr/en/[20]
  • Topic's main category: Category:French Academy of Sciences[21]
  • Email address: mailto:communication@academie-sciences.fr[22]
  • Phone number: +33144414366[23]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[24], The Encyclopedia Americana[25]
  • Official name: ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES[26]
  • Motto text: Invenit et perficit[27]
  • Legal form: national public establishment of an administrative nature[28]
  • Commons Institution page: Académie des sciences (France)[29]
  • Native label: Académie des sciences[30]
  • Owner of: Poncelet Prize[31], Vigne de Louis Pasteur[32]
  • Position held by head of the organization: president of the French Academy of Sciences[33]
  • Fax number: +33144414363[34]
  • Language used: French[35]

Why It Matters

French Academy of Sciences has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] It is known by 97 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

Works attributed to it include Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences[38], a scientific journal[39], in France[40], founded in 1835[41].

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  1. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . academie-sciences.fr. Retrieved . academie-sciences.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  9. [15] ↑ . SIRENE. wikidata.org.
  10. [3] ↑ . cosparhq.cnes.fr. Retrieved . cosparhq.cnes.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [4] ↑ . interacademies.org. Retrieved . interacademies.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [5] ↑ . council.science. Retrieved . council.science. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . academie-sciences.fr. academie-sciences.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . academie-sciences.fr. academie-sciences.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . academie-sciences.fr. academie-sciences.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . SIRENE. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . academie-sciences.fr. academie-sciences.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . SIRENE. wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . academie-sciences.fr. academie-sciences.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [41] ↑ . 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. [36] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Mondo · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 61
    Grants → Lalande Prize, Grand Prize of the French Academy of Science, Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer +4
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  2. 9w ago · הנדב הנכון · 2026-08-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Native label → {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Académie des sciences'}
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  3. 16w ago · Daieuxetdailleurs · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  4. 16w ago · Legonin · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  6. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0438997-Academie-des-sciences-Francie
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  7. 20w ago · Pigsonthewing · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinates → —
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    Number of viewers/listeners → {'amount': '+1841464'}
    Owner of → Poncelet Prize, Vigne de Louis Pasteur
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