Academy of Lyon explained

The Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts of Lyon (French: Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon) is a French learned society founded in 1700.^[1] Its founders included:

• Claude Brossette, lawyer, alderman of Lyons, and administrator of the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon;
• Laurent Dugas, President of the Cour des monnaies;
• , future consulting physician of King Louis XIV and member of the French: [[Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres]]|italic=no;
• Antoine de Serre, adviser to the Cour des monnaies;
• , naturalist;
• Father Jean de Saint-Bonnet, professor at the Collège-lycée Ampère.
• Thomas Bernard Fellon.^[2]

Notable Members

• Joseph D'Aquin
• Jean Pouilloux

See also

• French art salons and academies

Notes and References

1. Web site: Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon . Scholarly Societies Project . University of Waterloo . 29 June 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160819022719/http://www.scholarly-societies.org/history/1700asblal.html . 19 August 2016 . dead. dmy-all .
2. Encyclopedia: Patrice . Béghain . Bruno . Benoit . Gérard . Corneloup . Bruno . Thévenon (coord.) . Dictionnaire historique de Lyon . Stéphane Bachès . Lyons . 2009 . 9782915266658 . fr.