Academy of Lyon
The Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts of Lyon (French: Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon) is a French learned society founded in 1700.[1] Its founders included:
- Claude Brossette, lawyer, alderman of Lyons, and administrator of the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon;
- Laurent Dugas, President of the Cour des monnaies;
- Camille Falconet, future consulting physician of King Louis XIV and member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres;
- Antoine de Serre, adviser to the Cour des monnaies;
- Louis de Puget, naturalist;
- Father Jean de Saint-Bonnet,[lower-alpha 1] professor at the Collège-lycée Ampère.
- Thomas Bernard Fellon.[2]
Seal of the Academy
Notable Members
See also
Notes
- Apparently a different figure than Jean de Saint-Bonnet
References
- "Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon". Scholarly Societies Project. University of Waterloo. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- Béghain, Patrice; Benoit, Bruno; Corneloup, Gérard; Thévenon (coord.), Bruno (2009). Stéphane Bachès (ed.). Dictionnaire historique de Lyon (in French). Lyons. ISBN 9782915266658.
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