Michel Tournier was a French writer. He won awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970. His inspirations included traditional German culture, Catholicism and the philosophies of Gaston Bachelard. He resided in Choisel and was a member of the Académie Goncourt. His autobiography has been translated and published as The Wind Spirit. He was on occasion in contention for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
ComteJean Bruno Wladimir François-de-Paule Lefèvre d'Ormesson was a French writer and novelist. He authored forty books, was the director of Le Figaro from 1974 to 1977, as well as the dean of the Académie Française, to which he was elected in 1973, until his death, in addition to his service as president of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies within UNESCO (1992–1997).
Louis-Sébastien Mercier was a French dramatist and writer, whose 1771 novel L'An 2440 is an example of proto-science fiction.
Florence Delay is a French writer. She has been a member of the Académie française since 2000. She has notably written novels, essays and plays and has translated texts from Spanish.
René Rémond was a French historian, political scientist and political economist.
Jacques de Lacretelle was a French novelist. He was elected to the Académie Française on 12 November 1936.
Paul Guth was a French humorist, journalist and writer, and the President of the Académie des provinces françaises.
Régine Pernoud was a French historian and archivist. Pernoud was one of the most prolific medievalists in 20th century France; more than any other single scholar of her time, her work advanced and expanded the study of Joan of Arc.
Jean Sirmond was a neo-Latin poet and French man of letters, historiographer of Louis XIII.
The Société des Antiquaires de France is a Parisian historical and archaeological society, founded in 1804 under the name of the Académie celtique. It is now based at the Louvre, in the pavillon Mollien.
Jean-Jacques Gautier was a French theatre critic, novelist and essayist. A Norman via his father and a champenois via his mother, he was elected a member of the Académie française in 1972.
Michel Droit was a French novelist and journalist. He was the father of the photographer Éric Droit (1954–2007).
Louis-Marie de Carné, comte de Carné was a French politician, journalist and historian.
Jean-Claude Grumberg is a French playwright and author of children's books.
Jean Gillibert was a French psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, poet, translator, playwright and theatre director.
Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy was a French scholar, historian, geographer, philosopher, and bibliographer of alchemy.
Henri Madelin was a French Jesuit priest and theologian.
The Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum is a collection of ancient inscriptions in Semitic languages produced since the end of 2nd millennium BC until the rise of Islam. It was published in Latin. In a note recovered after his death, Ernest Renan stated that: "Of all I have done, it is the Corpus I like the most."
The Prix Bordin is a series of prizes awarded annually by each of the five institutions making up the Institut Français since 1835.
The Prix Saintour is a series of prizes awarded annually by each of the five institutions making up the Institut de France since 1835.
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