The Institut de France (French Institute) is a Frenchlearned society, grouping five académies, the most famous of which is probably the Académie française.
The institute manages approximately one thousand foundations. It also awards prizes and subsidies, which amounted to a total of 5,028,190.55 euros for 2002. Most of these prizes are awarded by the Institute on the recommendation of the académies.
Académie française (French Academy, concerning the French language) - founded in 1635
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (Academy of Humanities) - founded in 1663
Académie des sciences (Academy of Sciences) - founded in 1666
Académie des beaux-arts (Academy of Fine Arts) - created in 1816 as the merger of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648), the Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669) and the Académie d'architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671)
Académie des sciences morales et politiques (Academy of Moral Sciences and Politics) - founded in 1795, suppressed in 1803, reestablished in 1832
Danone Institute of France focuses its 73rd issue of its Newsletter Objectif Nutrition on socioeconomic factors influencing childhood obesity.
The aim of the congress is to bring together nutrition role players from all over the world to explore, exchange and integrate knowledge about nutrition, to generate new insights, and to define innovative solutions for global nutrition problems.
Danone Institutes are non-profit entities which link scientists involved in human nutrition with health and nutrition education professionals.
France was then the most powerful nation in Europe, with a population of 15 million.
France was split into an occupied north and an unoccupied south, Vichy France, which became a totalitarian German puppet state with Pétain as its chief.
Allied armies liberated France in Aug. 1944, and a provisional government in Paris headed by Gen. Charles de Gaulle was established.
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