Word: acad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this rate, and if the academicians can keep up their pace, the ninth edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Acadéemie Française will go on sale at the beginning of the 21st century...
...review of the Short Novels of Colette, you speak of the eminent writer as being "now a distinguished member of the French Academy." Since when has that body of so-called immortals, senescent gynophobes, honored Madame Colette? I know that she is the president of the lesser Académie Goncourt, and followed the Comtesse de Noailles as a member of the Belgian Académie Royal de Langue et de Littérature Française. But her membership in the Academic Française is news to me, as indeed it must be to that body itself...