The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres is a French learned society founded in 1663 and concerned with the humanities. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France. A learned society is a society that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines. ... Events Prix de Rome scholarship established for students of the arts. ... The humanities are a group of academic subjects united by a commitment to studying aspects of the human condition and a qualitative approach that generally prevents a single paradigm from coming to define any discipline. ... The Institut de France (French Institute) is a French learned society, grouping five académies, the most famous of which is probably the Académie française. ...

History

The origins of the Académie was a small council of humanists, members of the Académie française, that Colbert décided, in 1663, to have meet regularly in order to receive advice for the Latin inscriptions to be written on the public monuments and on the medals issued to celebrate the events of the reign of Louis XIV. Humanism is a system of thought that defines a socio-political doctrine (-ism) whose bounds exceed those of locally developed cultures, to include all of humanity and all issues common to human beings. ... The Académie française, or French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. ... Jean-Baptiste Colbert Jean-Baptiste Colbert (August 29, 1619 – September 6, 1683) served as the French minister of finance for 22 years under King Louis XIV. He achieved a reputation for his work of improving the state of French manufacturing and bringing the economy back from the brink of bankruptcy... Events Prix de Rome scholarship established for students of the arts. ... Latin is the language that was originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Louis XIV King of France and Navarre By Hyacinthe Rigaud (1701) Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638–September 1, 1715) reigned as King of France and King of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death. ...

Organized in 1701, the Académie royale des inscriptions et médailles (Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Medals) took its current title in 1716. Events January 18 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia. ... Events Natchez, one of the oldest towns on the Mississippi, founded. ...

Role

In the words of the Academy's charter, it is:

primarily concerned with the study of the monuments, the documents, the languages, and the cultures of the civilizations of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the classical period, as well as those of non-European civilizations.

The Volney prize is awarded by the Institut de France, based on the proposal by the académie. The Volney Prize (French language: Prix Volney) is awarded by the Institute of France after proposition by the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres to a work of comparative philology. ...

External link

• Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (http://www.aibl.fr/)