Old catalog heading: Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Paris
The Académie royale des inscriptions et belles lettres was established 4 January 1716, as the successor of the Académie royale des inscriptions et médailles. It was dissolved on 8 August 1793. In 1803, four classes were established under the Institut national de France, the third being the Classe d'histoire et de littérature ancienne, which continued under the Institut impérial de France and the Institut royal de France. The name Académie royale des inscriptions et belles lettres was restored by the king to the 3rd classe of the Institut royal de France on 21 March 1816; however, the term "royale" was rarely included in the name as shown on the academy's publications from that time on, so it was predominantly known as the Académie des inscriptions & belles lettres (or Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres) from 1816.
Its Comptes rendus des séances ... 1857-1899: t.p. (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres); 1900: t.p. (Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres) p. 1 (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres); 1960, surrogate: t.p. (Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres) caption t.p. (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres)
Its Comptes rendus des séances de ... 1857: p. 1, etc. (1663, functions of what later became the Académie began with 4 members of the Académie française; 1701, established as Académie des inscriptions et médailles [no publs. in LC database]; 1713, establishment confirmed by letters patent; 1716, reorganized, name chgd. to Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres; 1793, dissolved; 1795, Institut national des sciences et des arts founded & organized into 3 classes. Former members of the Académie distributed among sections of 2nd & 3rd classes; 1803, Institut reorganized into 4 classes. 3rd class: Classe d'histoire et de littérature ancienne, corresponded to the former Académie; 1816, 3rd class resumed name: Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres)
Histoire et mémoires de l'Institut royal de France, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, T. 5. (1821)-t. 9. (1831)
Mém. de l'Institut royal de France, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, T. 10. (1833)
Mém. de l'Institut national de France, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, T. 16., 1. ptie. (1850); T. 45. (1975)
Mém. de l'Institut impérial de France, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, T. 18., 1. ptie. (1855)
Mémoires présentés par divers savants à l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres de l'Institut de France, 1. sér., t. 1 (1844)
Sa{circ}one-et-Loire, 1994: t.p. (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Ministère de la culture et de la francophonie)
Inscriptiones Deli, 1912: t.p. (Academiae Inscriptionum et Humaniorum Litterarum Francogallicae)
Les frères Reinach, 2008: t.p. (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres; AIBL)
Histoire et mémoires de l'Institut royal de France, Classe d'histoire et de littérature ancienne, T. 4. (1818)
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres Web site, 9 November 2015: main page (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres; l'AIBL) Présentation (founded in 1663 under the reign of Louis XIV; is one of the 5 academies of Institut de France; since 1805, it has been located in the Palais of the Institut; under the name Académie des inscriptions et médailles (1683), it was originally charged with finding Latin and French mottoes (devices) to be written on the king's buildings, medals, and money; mission, since 1701: the advancement and diffusion of knowledge in the fields of classical antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the civilizations of the Near and Far East; today, it is also turning to other continents, particularly through Amerindian studies; history, archeology, history of art, philology and linguistics, literature, and the history of ideas, as well as related disciplines (epigraphy, numismatics, diplomatics, etc.); publications, including the oldest scientific journal still existing, Journal des savants, founded in 1665) Histoire de l'Académie (founded by Colbert 3 February 1663 as an informal working group; Académie royale des inscriptions et médailles; by ordnance of 16 July 1701, Académie royale des inscriptions was elevated to the rank of a State institution; took its definitive name Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres by royal decision 4 January 1716 (also called Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres); first volume of Mémoires de l'Académie appeared in 1717; on 8 August 1793, the Convention suppressed it and other royal academies; law of 25 October 1795 created Institut national des sciences et des arts, with three classes, including Littérature et beaux-arts; 23 January 1803, a new organization was proposed: the Institut national consisted of four classes, including the third, Histoire et littérature anciennes -- in other words, the former Académie royale des inscriptions et belles lettres; 21 March 1816, by royal ordinance, Louis XVIII revived the traditional names of the 4 classes as academies grouped under the Institut, including Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres; since 1816, Académie des inscriptions has continued to be ruled by the dispositions of the ordinance of 1816)
