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    The Institut de France (French for 'Institute of France'; French: [ɛ̃stity də fʁɑ̃s]) is a French learned society, grouping five académies, including...
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    Revolution and rebuilt in the 1870s. The château is owned by the Institut de France, which received it from Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale. A historic...
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    (President of the academy), it is one of the five Academies of the Institut de France. The Academy of Sciences traces its origin to Colbert's plan to create...
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    Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution, it was restored as a division of the Institut de France in 1803 by Napoleon Bonaparte. It is the...
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  • The Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information), previously Institut géographique...
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    the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in 1795 by Napoleon and still held by the Institut de France in Paris. Leonardo biographer Walter Isaacson has expressed the belief...
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    The Institut Universitaire de France (IUF, Academic Institute of France), is a service of the French Ministry of Higher Education that annually distinguishes...
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    author and an influential member of three of the academies of the Institut de France, noted especially for his accessible treatment of scientific topics...
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    Yoccoz Jean Yoyotte Don Zagier Institut de France Raymond Couvègnes "Les membres de Couperin", Couperin.org (in French), archived from the original on...
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    reopened in December 2012. The Institut d'Égypte was founded on 22 August 1798 by Napoleon Bonaparte for the Institut de France, their mission was "progress...
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