Word: mies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Founded in 1795, as a union of the five French academies of arts and sciences, the oldest and most honorable being the Académie Française, established 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu. Members of the Academy are France's Immortals, their immortality guaranteed by government decree. Other academies are: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Académie des Sciences; Académie des Beaux Arts; Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques...
...felt it perhaps superfluous to emerge from well earned retirement. Last week, however, he followed the bier of an old friend and broke his long silence as he stood beside the open grave. The dead man thus greatly honored was M. Gustave Geffroy, 71, Président de 1'Académie Goncourt, Administrateur de la Manufacture des Gobelins,* a loyal associate of M. Clemenceau in his long fight to secure the freedom of Captain Dreyfus...
...societies and orders into which they can lure men of imperishable fame in other walks of life. The great Cardinal Richelieu, for example, practically forced Corneille and the famed clique of notables who frequented informally the house of Valentin Courart to allow themselves to be "incorporated" into L'Académie française, for the greater glory of "Cardinal, King, and Country." Last week Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, rapped out a few terse commands to his Cabinet, and lo, L'Accademia Italiana sprang into being...
Balloting resulted in the election of : Émile Picard, member of the Academy of Science and professor of mathematics at the Sorbonne; Albert Besnard, Director of the Académie des Beaux Arts, best known artist in France; Georges Lecomte, journalist, author, playwright, historian, critic - literary handy man. The latter's political biography of ex-Premier Georges Clemenceau is said to be the best of its kind...
...habitués of Conrart's garret would have preferred to remain free; but it was dangerous to oppose the Cardinal, so they reluctantly were forced to accept the offer of His Eminence. In 1635, letters patent were granted by the King, and the Académie Française came into being...