The Académie Française, as French an institution as the guillotine and Daft Punk, has been admired and mocked since it was founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635. Then and now, it has been synonymous ...
Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Académie Française has offered official translations of English loanwords The Académie Française has offered ...
In April, after the deaths in recent years of such venerable French Jewish members as anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss and biologist François Jacob, the Académie française increased its quotient of ...
Florian Zeller, a world-acclaimed playwright who made his directorial debut with the Oscar-winning film “The Father” starring Anthony Hopkins, has joined the Académie Française, a prestigious French ...
His lauded fiction satirized abuses of power in the continent, but as a high official for the Republic of Congo, he benefited from a much-criticized government. By Adam Nossiter When a French ...
They made international headlines with their pronouncement that Covid-19 is feminine and are frequently at the centre of language arguments - but just who are the 'guardians' of the French language?