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The Académie has also noted that anglicisms have been present in the French language since the 1700s, and has criticized the view that anglicisms present an "invasion" on the French language. It distinguishes anglicisms into three categories: some that are useful to the French language and introduced
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devised the expression "forty-first seat" for deserving individuals who were never elected to the Académie, either because their candidacies were rejected, because they were never candidates, or because they died before appropriate vacancies arose. Notable French authors who never became academicians
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Perpetual Secretaries having previously resigned due to old age. The Perpetual Secretary acts as a chairperson and chief representative of the Académie. The two other officers, a Director and a Chancellor, are elected for three-month terms. The most senior member, by date of election, is the Dean of
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is responsible for awarding several different prizes in various fields (including literature, painting, poetry, theatre, cinema, history, and translation). Almost all of the prizes were created during the twentieth century, and only two prizes were awarded before 1780. In total, the Académie awards
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has forty seats, each of which is assigned a separate number. Candidates make their applications for a specific seat, not to the Académie in general: if several seats are vacant, a candidate may apply separately for each. Since a newly elected member is required to eulogize their predecessor in the
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New members are elected by the Académie itself; the original members were appointed. When a seat becomes vacant, a person may apply to the Secretary if they wish to become a candidate. Alternatively, existing members may nominate other candidates. A candidate is elected by a majority of votes from
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was the first woman to be elected, in 1980, but there have been 25 unsuccessful female candidacies, dating from 1874. Individuals who are not citizens of France may be, and have been, elected. Moreover, although most academicians are writers, it is not necessary to be a member of the literary
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is twenty members. If no candidate receives an absolute majority, another election must be performed at a later date. The election is valid only if the protector of the Académie, the President of France, grants their approval. The President's approbation is only a formality.
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for the member being replaced. This is followed by a speech made by one of the members. Eight days thereafter, a public reception is held, during which the new member makes a speech thanking their colleagues for their election. On one occasion, one newly installed member,
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is chosen by their colleagues to be the Académie's Perpetual Secretary. The Secretary is called "Perpetual", as though the holder serves for life, but holds the ability to resign; they may thereafter be styled as "Honorary Perpetual Secretary", with three
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adopted the function when Séguier died in 1672; since then, the French head of state has always served as the Académie's protector. From 1672 to 1805, the official meetings of the Académie were in the
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said that his induction cost him some $ 230,000 overall. The swords can be particularly expensive as they are individually designed. Some new members have had funds for them raised by committees.
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and a frequent, though until then unofficial, practice in France. The Académie insisted, in accordance with French grammar rules on the traditional use of the masculine noun, on the use of "
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has informed government officials to stop using English gaming terms like "e-sports", it should be "jeu video de competition". Likewise "streamer" should be "joueur-animateur en direct".
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in 2011. In 1778, the Académie attempted to compile a "historical dictionary" of the French language; this idea was later abandoned, the work never progressing past the letter 
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The Académie has published thirteen editions of the dictionary, of which three were preliminary, eight were complete, and two were supplements for specialised words. These are:
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of the institute. The body has the duty of acting as an official authority on the language; it is tasked with publishing an official dictionary of the language.
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was "to labor with all the care and diligence possible, to give exact rules to our language, to render it capable of treating the arts and sciences". The
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opposed in 1958. Morand was finally elected ten years later, and he was received without the customary visit, at the time of investiture, to the Palace
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Members remain in the Académie for life. The council may dismiss an academician for grave misconduct. The first dismissal occurred in 1638, when
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intervened in June 2008 to oppose the French Government's proposal to constitutionally offer recognition and protection to regional languages (
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installation ceremony, it is not uncommon that potential candidates refuse to apply for particular seats because they dislike the predecessors.
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profession to become a member. The Académie has included numerous politicians, lawyers, scientists, historians, philosophers, and senior
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The new member is then installed at a meeting of the Académie. The new member must deliver a speech to the Académie, which includes a
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came to the throne in 1816, each class regained the title of "Académie"; accordingly, the second class of the Institut became the
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This is the anglicized version of the name, with a capital "F". In French, it is generally written with a lowercase "f".
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is the "protector" or patron of the Académie. Cardinal Richelieu originally adopted this role; upon his death in 1642,
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The Académie is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language.
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Richelieu's model, the first academy devoted to eliminating the "impurities" of a language, was the
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vocabulary which did not have a French equivalent at the time (the Académie cites the word "
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The members bear the cost of their uniforms themselves. The robes cost around $ 50,000, and
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Meet the Cultural Illuminati Guarding France’s Most Sacrosanct Asset: The French Language
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has remained responsible for the regulation of French grammar, spelling, and literature.
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formally establishing the council; according to the letters patent registered at the
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of the French language. For example, the Académie has recommended the avoidance of
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The Académie is continuing work on the ninth edition, of which the first volume (
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Corpus of Dictionaries of the French Academy (from the 17th to the 20th Century)
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terms by media increased over the years, the Académie has tried to prevent the
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The Académie had its origins in an informal literary group deriving from the
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was expelled for theft. The most recent dismissals occurred at the end of
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The Académie publishes a dictionary of the French language, known as the
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was one of the five French heads of state who became members of the
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refused to be received, as he feared being received by his enemy,
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during the late 1620s and early 1630s. The group began meeting at
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Supplementary editions for the sciences, arts, and technology:
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Many notable French writers have not become members of the
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The Académie, despite working on the modernization of the
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clergymen. Five French heads of state have been members –
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Nouveau Dictionnaire de l'Académie française dedié au Roy
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