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The founding of the Académie des sciences — The first session, on 22 December 1666, of the scholars Colbert gathered in the king’s library
Colbert gathered some fifteen scholars, the Dutchman Huygens among them, in the king’s library: no text founded them, a pension retained them, and they met twice a week. The regulation that made them the Académie royale des sciences came thirty-three years later. (Editorial synthesis)
The founding of the Académie des sciences took place on 22 December 1666. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis and Institut de France)
The founding of the Académie des sciences took place in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
The founding of the Académie des sciences ended in a company of scholars pensioned by the king, meeting twice a week. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis and Institut de France)
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