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Académie française

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Powerful French academy founded in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, chief minister during King Louis XIII's reign, and still a force in contemporary French culture. The Académie continues to exercise its authority, overseeing and attempting to control developments in the language. Its most recent efforts, a measure of its linguistic conservatism, have been directed against the employment of loan words from other languages. The group also bestows various awards and prizes for distinguished literary achievements.

The Académie consists of 40 members, all prominent intellectuals and formerly all-male until 1980, when the novelist Marguerite Yourcenar was elected its first female member.

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