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The Académie des Beaux-Arts (akademi de bo.z‿aʁ, Academy of Fine Arts) is a French

France

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learned society

Learned society

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. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France

Institut de France

The Institut de France is a French learned society, grouping five académies, the most famous of which is the Académie française.The institute, located in Paris, manages approximately 1,000 foundations, as well as museums and chateaux open for visit. It also awards prizes and subsidies, which...

.

It was created in 1795 as the merger of the:

Académie de peinture et de sculpture
Académie de peinture et de sculpture
The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture , Paris, was founded in 1648, modelled on Italian examples, such as the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. Paris already had the Académie de Saint-Luc, which was a city artist guild like any other Guild of Saint Luke...

(Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648)
Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669)
Académie d'architecture
Académie d'architecture
The Académie royale d'architecture was a French learned society founded on December 30, 1671 by Louis XIV, king of France under the impulsion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert...

(Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671)

Currently, the Académie des Beaux-Arts provides several awards including six dedicated prizes :

Liliane Bettencourt
Liliane Bettencourt
Liliane Bettencourt is a French heiress, socialite, businesswoman and philanthropist. She is one of the principal shareholders of L'Oréal and, with a fortune estimated at US$23.5 billion, is one of the wealthiest people in the world.-Biography:...

Choral Singing Prize
Pierre David-Weill
Pierre David-Weill
Pierre David-Weill was a French investment banker.Born Pierre Sylvain Désiré Gérard David-Weill in Paris, France, he was the son of Flora Raphael and David David-Weill , Chairman of Lazard Frères...

Drawing Prize
Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin Cardin was known for his avant-garde style and his Space Age designs. He prefers geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions, sometimes experimental, and not always practical...

Prize
Nahed Ojjeh Prize
Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation
Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation
The Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation is a charitable foundation based in Paris, France. It was established in 1975 by Simone Del Duca , widow of publishing magnate Cino Del Duca...

Music Prize
Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation Painting or Sculpture Prize

Members

The members are grouped into eight sections:

Section I: Painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
Section II: Sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
Section III: Architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
Section IV: Etching
Etching
Etching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal...
Section V: Musical composition
Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...
Section VI: Unattached members
Section VII: Artistic creation in the cinema
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

and the audio-visual field (since 1985)
Section VIII: Photography (since 2005)

Current member as of January 2010 on alphabetical order

Section	Seat	Member	Date
I : Painting
	2	Pierre Carron Pierre Carron Pierre Carron is a French sculptor and painter.Born in Fécamp, Normandy, France, he primarily studied drawing at the Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre. Because of the German occupation, he was, for a time, the only student at the school...	1990
	4	Jean Cortot	2001
	5	Vacant	2000
	6	Georges Mathieu Georges Mathieu Georges Mathieu is a French painter in the style of lyrical abstraction.-Biography:He was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, and gained an international reputation in the 1950s as a leading Abstract Expressionist. His large paintings are created very rapidly and impulsively...	1975
	7	Vladimir Velickovic Vladimir Velickovic Vladimir Veličković is one of the most prominent Serbian painters. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Belgrade University. From 1963 to 1966, he was an assistant in Krsto Hegedušić’s Master workshop in Zagreb, and in 1966 he moved to Paris...	2005
	8	Guy de Rougemont	1997
	9	Chu Teh-Chun	1997
	10	Zao Wou Ki Zao Wou Ki -Biography:He was born in a cultivated family and studied calligraphy in his childhood and from 1935 to 1941 painting at the school of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. In 1948, he went with his wife Lan-lan, a composer, to Paris to live on the same block in Montparnasse where the classes of Émile Othon...	2002
	11	Arnaud d'Hauterives	1984
	13	Yves Millecamps	2001
II : Sculpture	1	Jean Cardot Jean Cardot Jean Cardot is a French sculptor, born in Saint-Etienne, France.He was elected member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on November 9, 1983 and president in 1992 and 1997...	1983
	2	Claude Abeille	1992
	3	Vacant	2006
	5	Eugène Dodeigne Eugène Dodeigne Eugène Dodeigne is a French sculptor living and working at Bondues .-Life:He learned his trade from his father, a stonecutter, who hired him to take courses in drawing and modeling at Tourcoing and Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he experienced a revelation in the studio of Marcel Gimond...	1999
	6	Gérard Lanvin	1990
	7	Pierre Edouard	2008
	8	Antoine Poncet	1993
	9	Brigitte Terziev	2007
III : Architecture	1	Jacques Rougerie Jacques Rougerie Jacques Rougerie is a retired French international rugby union player and the father of an other French international rugby union player, Aurélien Rougerie....	2008
	2	Michel Folliasson	1998
	3	Aymeric Zublena	2008
	4	Roger Taillibert Roger Taillibert Roger Taillibert is a French architect, notable for designing the Parc des Princes in Paris and the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Canada....	1983
	5	Claude Parent	2005
	6	Vacant	2008
	7	Vacant	2007
	9	Paul Andreu Paul Andreu Paul Andreu is a renowned French architect. He is best known for having planned numerous airports worldwide, notably Ninoy Aquino International Airport , Soekarno-Hatta International Airport , Shanghai Pudong International Airport Abu Dhabi International Airport, Dubai International Airport,...	1996
	10	Yves Boiret	2002
IV : Etching	1	Érik Desmazières	2008
	2	Pierre-Yves Trémois Pierre-Yves Trémois Pierre-Yves Trémois is a French visual artist and sculptor. He is known for evocative works drawing in equal proportions on surrealism and science illustration, and for combining graphic precision and rigor with flamboyant fantasy....	1978
	3	Louis-René Berge	2005
	4	René Quillivic	1994
V : Musical composition	1	Laurent Petitgirard Laurent Petitgirard Laurent Petitgirard is a French classical composer and conductor.- Biography and career :Laurent Petitgirard studied piano with Serge Petitgirard and composition with Alain Kremski...	2000
	2	Jean Prodromidès Jean Prodromidès Jean Prodromidés is a French Composer. He has composed for films such as Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case and Danton.Prodromidés was elected to the Academy of Fine Arts in 1990 to Henry Sauguet; Prodromidés was also president of the Academy and the Institute of France in 2005.*Filmography:1956 :...	1990
	3	Michaël Levinas	2009
	4	Vacant	2008
	5	François-Bernard Mâche François-Bernard Mâche François-Bernard Mâche is a French composer of contemporary music. Born into a family of musicians, he is a former student of Émile Passani and Olivier Messiaen and has also received a diploma in Greek archaeology and a teaching certificate...	2002
	6	Édith Canat de Chizy Édith Canat de Chizy Edith Canat de Chizy is a French composer. She was born in Lyon, and studied art, archeology and philosophy at the Sorbonne University and then music at the Paris Conservatoire with Maurice Ohana and Ivo Malec...	2005
	7	Charles Chaynes Charles Chaynes - Biography :Chaynes studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Darius Milhaud and Jean Rivier. In 1951 he won the Prix de Rome with the cantata Et l'homme se vit les portes rouvrir...	2005
	8	Jacques Taddei	2001
VI : Unattached members	1	William Christie William Christie (musician) William Lincoln Christie is an American-born French conductor and harpsichordist. He is noted as a specialist in baroque repertoire and as the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants....	2008
	3	Hugues Gall	2002
	4	Vacant	2007
	5	Michel David-Weill Michel David-Weill Michel David-Weill is a French investment banker and former Chairman of New York City based Lazard Frères.He is the son of Berthe Haardt and Lazard Frères chairman Pierre David-Weill...	1982
	6	Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière	2005
	7	Vacant	2008
	8	Pierre Cardin Pierre Cardin Pierre Cardin Cardin was known for his avant-garde style and his Space Age designs. He prefers geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions, sometimes experimental, and not always practical...	1992
	10	Henri Loyrette Henri Loyrette Henri Loyrette was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. He became first curator and then director of the Musée d'Orsay in 1978 and 1994 respectively. He became director of the Louvre Museum in 2001.-Career:...	1997
	11	Vacant	2007
	13	François-Bernard Michel	2000
VII : Artistic creation in the cinema and the audio-visual field	1	Régis Wargnier Régis Wargnier Régis Wargnier is a French film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor and film score composer.-Director:1986 : La Femme de ma vie starring Jane Birkin1988 : Sueurs froides...	2007
	2	Roman Polanski Roman Polanski Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...	1998
	3	Jean-Jacques Annaud Jean-Jacques Annaud Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, film producer and screenwriter.- Biography :Annaud was born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne...	2007
	4	Pierre Schoendoerffer Pierre Schoendoerffer Pierre Schoendoerffer is a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician and since 2001 the President of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.-Family:...	1988
	5	Vacant	2006
	6	Jeanne Moreau Jeanne Moreau Jeanne Moreau is a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director.She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française...	2000
VIII : Photography	1	Lucien Clergue Lucien Clergue -Biography:Lucien Clergue was born in Arles. From the age of 7, he learned to play the violin. Several years later, his teacher revealed to him that he had nothing more to teach him. From a family of shopkeepers, he could not pursue further studies in a conservatory. In 1949, he learned the...	2006
VIII : Photography	2	Yann Arthus-Bertrand Yann Arthus-Bertrand Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist.- Early life :Yann Arthus-Bertrand was born in Paris on March 13, 1946 in a renowned jewellers' family founded in 1803 by Claude Arthus-Bertrand and Michel-Ange Marion. His sister Catherine is one of his...	2006

Section I: Painting

The number of members of the Painting section was reduced from 14 to 12 by the decree # 67-778 of 23 August 1967. As a consequence, the #3 and #14 seats were suppressed. Their number was further decreased from 12 to 11 by decree on 16 June 1987. The #12 seat was transferred to section VII. The #1 seat was transferred to section VII in 1998, and their number was decreased from 11 to 10.

Seat #1

This seat was transferred to section VII in 1998.

Gérard van Spaendonck
Gerard van Spaendonck
Gerard van Spaendonck was a Dutch painter.Gerard was born in Tilburg, an older brother of Cornelis van Spaendonck , who was also a renowned artist. In the 1760s he studied with decorative painter Willem Jacob Herreyns in Antwerp...

(1746–1822), elected in 1795
Louis Hersent
Louis Hersent
Louis Hersent was a French painter.]Born in Paris, he became a pupil of David, and obtained the Prix de Rome in 1797. In the Salon of 1802 appeared his "Metamorphosis of Narcissus", and he continued to exhibit with rare interruptions up to 1831...

(1777–1860), elected in 1822
Emile Signol
Émile Signol
Émile Signol was a French artist, born in Paris. Signol died in Montmorency, Val-d'Oise. Although he lived during the Romantic period, his classical background kept him from succumbing to Impressionism or Romanticism....

(1804–1892), elected in 1860
Luc-Olivier Merson
Luc-Olivier Merson
Luc-Olivier Merson was a French academic painter and illustrator also known for his postage stamp and currency designs....

(1846–1920), elected in 1892
Paul Chabas (1869–1937), elected in 1921
Edouard Vuillard
Édouard Vuillard
Jean-Édouard Vuillard was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis.-Early years and education:...

(1868–1840), elected in 1938
Pierre Montezin (1874–1946), elected in 1941
Charles Fouqueray (1871–1956), elected in 1947
Yves Brayer
Yves Brayer
Yves Brayer is a French painter known for his paintings of every-day life.He was born in Versailles and became prominent in the years between World War I and World War II...

(1907–1990), elected in 1957

Seat #2

François Vincent (1746–1816), elected in 1795
Pierre Prud'hon (1763–1823), elected in 1816
Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld
Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld
Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld was a French painter.A native of the city of Carpentras, Bidauld first studied painting with his elder brother, Jean-Pierre-Xavier, in Lyons. In 1783 he traveled to Paris, there winning the favor of an art dealer and perfume seller named Dulac...

(1758–1846), elected in 1823
Jacques Bascassat (1804–1867), elected in 1846
Louis Cabat (1812–1893), elected in 1867
Jean Benjamin-Constant (1845–1902), elected in 1893
Jacques Humbert (1842–1934), elected in 1902
Emile Aubry (1880–1964), elected in 1935
Félix Labisse
Félix Labisse
Félix Labisse was a French Surrealist painter, illustrator, and designer.He was born in Marchiennes. He divided his time between Paris and the Belgian coast from 1927. In Ostend he met James Ensor, who influenced his work. Beginning in 1931 he designed for the theater. His paintings depict...

(1905–1982), elected in 1966
Pierre Carron
Pierre Carron
Pierre Carron is a French sculptor and painter.Born in Fécamp, Normandy, France, he primarily studied drawing at the Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre. Because of the German occupation, he was, for a time, the only student at the school...

(1932), elected in 1990

Seat #3

This seat was discontinued in 1967.

Jean-Baptiste Regnault
Jean-Baptiste Regnault
Jean-Baptiste Regnault was a French painter.Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to Italy by M. de Monval under the care of Bardin...

(1754–1829), elected in 1795
François Heim (1787–1865), elected in 1829
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax.-Life:Jean-Léon Gérôme was born...

(1824–1904), elected in 1865
Emile Carolus Duran (1838–1917), elected in 1904
Ernest Laurent
Ernest Laurent
Ernest Joseph Laurent was a French painter and printmaker. He was born in Gentilly and died in Bièvre....

(1859–1929), elected in 1919
Henri Le Sidaner
Henri Le Sidaner
Henri Eugène Augustin Le Sidaner was an Intimist painter born to a French family in Port Louis, Mauritius. In 1870 he and his family settled in Dunkirk...

(1862–1939), elected in 1930
Jean Dupas
Jean Dupas
Jean Théodore Dupas was a French painter, designer, poster artist, and decorator whose work is considered the utmost example of Art Nouveau and Art Deco visual arts.- Life :He won the prix de Rome in 1910...

(1882–1964), elected in 1941

Seat #4

Nicolas Taunay (1755–1830), elected in 1795
François Granet (1779–1849), elected in 1830
Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury was a French painter.Born in Cologne, he was sent by his family to Paris, and after travelling in Italy returned to France and made his first appearance at the Salon in 1824; his reputation, however, was not established until three years later, when he exhibited Tasso...

(1797–1890), elected in 1850
François-Louis Français
François-Louis Français
François Louis Français , French painter, was born at Plombières-les-bains , and, on attaining the age of fifteen, was placed as office-boy with a bookseller....

(1814–1897), elected in 1890
Antoine Vollon
Antoine Vollon
Antoine Vollon was a French realist artist, best known as a painter of still lifes, landscapes and figures. During his lifetime, Vollon was a successful celebrity, enjoyed an excellent reputation, and was called a "painter's painter"...

(1833–1900), elected in 1897
Pascal Dagnan 1852-1929), elected in 1900
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875–1932), elected in 1930
Georges Leroux (1877–1957), elected in 1932
Georges Cheyssial (1907–1997), elected in 1958
Olivier Debré (1920–1999), elected in 1999
Jean Cortot (1925), elected in 2001

Seat #5

Vivant Denon (1747–1825), elected in 1803
Jean-Dominique Ingres (1781–1867), elected in 1825
Jean-Baptiste Hesse (1806–1879), elected in 1867
Jules Delaunay (1828–1891), elected in 1879
Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Jules Joseph Lefebvre was a French figure painter.Lefebvre entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet. He won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1861. Between 1855 and 1898, he exhibited 72 portraits in the Paris Salon...

(1834–1911), elected in 1891
Paul-Albert Besnard
Paul-Albert Besnard
Paul-Albert Besnard was a French painter and printmaker.-Biography:He was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, studied with Jean Bremond and was influenced by Alexandre Cabanel...

(1849–1934), elected in 1912
Jérôme Sabatté (1874–1940), elected in 1935
Louis Biloul (1874–1947), elected in 1941
Edmond Heuzé (1889–1967), elected in 1948
Georges Rohner (1913–2000), elected in 1968

Seat #6

Ennius-Quirinus Visconti (1751–1818), elected in 1803
Guillaume Le Thière (1760–1832), elected in 1818
Merry-Joseph Blondel
Merry-Joseph Blondel
Merry-Joseph Blondel was a French neo-classic painter.After a first training in the Dilh et Guerhard porcelain factory, he became a student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault. He won the prestigious 1803 Prix de Rome for his painting Enée portant son père Anchise...

(1781–1853), elected in 1832
Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin
Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin
Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin was a 19th-century French painter. His celebrated 1836 work Jeune Homme Nu Assis au Bord de la Mer is in the Louvre.-Early life:...

(1809–1864), elected in 1853
Charles-Louis Müller (1815–1892), elected in 1864
Jean-Baptiste Detaille (1848–1912), elected in 1892
André Baschet (1862–1941), elected in 1913
Robert Pougheon (1886–1955), elected in 1942
Alfred Giess (1901–1973), elected in 1955
Georges Mathieu
Georges Mathieu
Georges Mathieu is a French painter in the style of lyrical abstraction.-Biography:He was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, and gained an international reputation in the 1950s as a leading Abstract Expressionist. His large paintings are created very rapidly and impulsively...

(1921), elected in 1975

Seat #7

François Menageot (1744–1816), elected in 1809
Etienne Garnier (1759–1849), elected in 1816
Léon Cogniet
Léon Cogniet
Léon Cogniet was a French historical and portrait painter.- Biography :Cogniet was born in Paris. In 1812, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Pierre-Narcisse Guérin at the same time as Delacroix and Géricault. In 1817 he won the Prix de Rome and was a resident at...

(1794–1880), elected in 1849
Léon Bonnat
Léon Bonnat
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat was a French painter.He was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in Madrid, where his father owned a bookshop. While tending his father's shop, he copied engravings of works by the Old Masters, developing a passion for drawing...

(1833–1922), elected in 1881
Jean-Louis Forain
Jean-Louis Forain
Jean-Louis Forain was a French Impressionist painter, lithographer, watercolorist and etcher.-Overview:Forain was born in Reims, Marne but at age eight, his family moved to Paris. He began his career working as a caricaturist for several Paris journals including Le Monde Parisien and Le rire...

(1852–1931), elected in 1923
Maurice Denis
Maurice Denis
Maurice Denis was a French painter and writer, and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art.-Childhood and education:...

(1870–1943), elected in 1932
Pierre-Paul Jouve (1878–1973), elected in 1945
Bernard Buffet
Bernard Buffet
Bernard Buffet was a French painter of Expressionism and Member of the Anti-Abstract Art Group "L'homme Témoin [the Witness-Man]".-Life and work:...

(1928–1999), elected in 1974
Vladimir Veličković
Vladimir Velickovic
Vladimir Veličković is one of the most prominent Serbian painters. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Belgrade University. From 1963 to 1966, he was an assistant in Krsto Hegedušić’s Master workshop in Zagreb, and in 1966 he moved to Paris...

(1935), elected in 2005

Seat #8

François Gérard
François Gerard
François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard was a French painter born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador. His mother was Italian. As a baron of the Empire he is sometimes referred to as Baron Gérard.-Life:François Gérard was born in Rome, on 12 March 1770, to...

(1770–1837), elected in 1812
Jean-Victor Schnetz
Jean-Victor Schnetz
Jean-Victor Schnetz was a French academic painter well regarded for his historical and genre paintings....

(1787–1870), elected in 1837
Paul Baudry (1828–1886), elected in 1870
Jules Breton (1827–1906), elected in 1886
Gabriel Ferrier (1847–1914), elected in 1906
Henri Jean Guillaume Martin (1860–1943), elected in 1917
Gustave Jaulmes (1873–1959), elected in 1944
André Planson (1898–1981), elected in 1960
Jean Bertholle
Jean Bertholle
Jean Bertholle was a French painter of the new Paris School....

(1909–1996), elected in 1983
Guy de Rougemont (1935), elected in 1997

Seat #9

Pierre Guérin (1774–1833), elected in 1816
Michel Drölling (1786–1851), elected in 1833
Jean Alaux
Jean Alaux
Jean Alaux, called "le Romain" , was a French history painter and Director of the French Academy in Rome from 1846-52.-Life and work:...

(1786–1864), elected in 1851
Henri Lehmann
Henri Lehmann
Henri Lehmann was a German-born French historical painter and portraitist.__NOEDITSECTION__-Life:Born Heinrich Salem Lehmann in Kiel, Schleswig, Germany, he received his first art tuition from his father Leo Lehmann and from other painters in Hamburg...

(1814–1882), elected in 1864
Gustave Boulanger
Gustave Boulanger
Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger was a French figure painter known for his Neo-Grec style. He was born at Paris, studied with Delaroche and Jollivet, and in 1849 took the Prix de Rome. His paintings are prime examples of academic art of the time, particularly history painting...

(1824–1888), elected in 1882
Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau was a French Symbolist painter whose main emphasis was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas, Moreau appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists.- Biography :Moreau was born in Paris. His father, Louis Jean Marie...

(1826–1898), elected in 1888
Aimé Morot
Aimé Morot
Aimé Morot was a French painter.Morot was born in Nancy, where he studied under a drawing master named Thierry. He later attended the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but left after only two weeks to continue his studies independently...

(1850–1913), elected in 1898
Henri Gervex
Henri Gervex
Henri Gervex was a French painter born in Paris, and studied painting under Alexandre Cabanel, Pierre-Nicolas Brisset and Eugène Fromentin....

(1852–1929), elected in 1913
André Devambez (1867–1944), elected in 1929
Willem van Hasselt (1882–1963), elected in 1945
Edouard Goerg (1893–1969), elected in 1965
Jacques Despierre (1912–1995), elected in 1969
Teh Chun Chu (1926), elected in 1997

Seat #10

Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...

(1748–1825), elected in 1803
Aîné Jean le Barbier (1738–1826), elected in 1816
Horace Vernet
Horace Vernet
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects.Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famous painter, who was himself a son of Claude Joseph Vernet. He was born in the Paris Louvre, while his parents were staying there during the French...

(1789–1863), elected in 1826
Alexandre Cabanel
Alexandre Cabanel
Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter.- Biography :Cabanel was born in Montpellier, Hérault. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter...

(1823–1889), elected in 1863
Jean-Jacques Henner
Jean-Jacques Henner
Jean-Jacques Henner was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects, and portraits....

(1829–1905), elected in 1889
Léon Lhermitte
Léon Augustin Lhermitte
Léon Augustin Lhermitte was a French realist painter and etcher whose primary subject matter was of rural scenes depicting the peasant worker.He was born in Mont-Saint-Père...

(1844–1925), elected in 1905
Emile Ménard (1862–1930), elected in 1926
Georges Desvallières
Georges Desvallières
George Desvallières was a French painter.A native of Paris, Desvallières was a great-grandson of academician Gabriel Legouvé, and received a religious upbringing. He studied at the Académie Julian with Tony Robert-Fleury and with Jules Valadon at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts...

(1861–1950), elected in 1930
Jean Bouchaud (1891–1977), elected in 1951
Jean Carzou
Jean Carzou
Jean Carzou , born Garnik Zouloumian, was a French-Armenian artist. Jean arrived in Paris in 1924 to study architecture. He started working as a theater decorator but he then quickly realized he preferred drawing and painting...

(1907–2000), elected in 1977
Zao Wou Ki
Zao Wou Ki
-Biography:He was born in a cultivated family and studied calligraphy in his childhood and from 1935 to 1941 painting at the school of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. In 1948, he went with his wife Lan-lan, a composer, to Paris to live on the same block in Montparnasse where the classes of Émile Othon...

(1921), elected in 2002

Seat #11

Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767–1824), elected in 1816
Charles Thévenin
Charles Thévenin
Charles Thévenin was a neoclassical French painter, known for heroic scenes from the time of the French Revolution and First French Empire.-Life:...

(1764–1838), elected in 1825
Jérôme Langlois (1779–1838), elected in 1838
Louis Couder (1790–1873), elected in 1839
Antoine Hébert (1817–1908), elected in 1874
Raphaël Collin
Raphaël Collin
Raphaël Collin was born and raised in Paris, where he became a prominent academic painter and in later life a professor at the Académie des Beaux-Arts...

(1850–1916), elected in 1909
Adolphe Déchenaud (1868–1926), elected in 1918
Lucien Simon
Lucien Simon
Lucien J. Simon was a French painter and teacher born in Paris.After graduating from the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he studied painting at the studio of Jules Didier, then from 1880 to 1883 at l’Académie Julian....

(1861–1945), elected in 1929
Jean Souverbie (1891–1981), elected in 1946
Arnaud d'Hauterives (1933), elected in 1984

Seat #12

This seat was transferred to section VII in 1987.

Antoine Gros (1771–1835), elected in 1816
Alexandre Abel de Pujol (1787–1861), elected in 1835
Jean Meissonier (1815–1891), elected in 1861
Jean-Paul Laurens
Jean-Paul Laurens
Jean-Paul Laurens , was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style.Born in Fourquevaux, he was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida...

(1838–1921), elected in 1891
Jules Meunier (1863–1942), elected in 1921
René Prinet (1861–1946), elected in 1943
Nicolas Untersteller (1900–1967), elected in 1946
Roger Chastel (1897–1981), elected in 1968
Georges Wakhévitch
Georges Wakhevitch
Georges Wakhévitch was an art director .He was raised in Paris, where he studied painting. He was an assistant to film director Lazare Meerson in the 1920s....

(1907–1984), elected in 1982

Seat #13

Charles Meynier
Charles Meynier
Charles Meynier was a French painter. A student of François-André Vincent, Meynier won the second prize in the 1789 prix de Rome competition...

(1768–1832), elected in 1816
Paul Delaroche (1797–1856), elected in 1832
Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school...

(1798–1863), elected in 1857
Nicolas Hesse (1795–1869), elected in 1863
Jules Lenepveu (1819–1898), elected in 1869
Fernand Cormon
Fernand Cormon
Fernand Cormon was a French painter born in Paris. He became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-François Portaels, and one of the leading historical painters of modern France....

(1845–1924), elected in 1898
Edgar Maxence
Edgar Maxence
Edgar Maxence , was a French Symbolist painter.- Life :He was taught by Elie Delaunay and Gustave Moreau at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He exhibited in the Salon des Artistes Français from 1894 until 1939, and was active on the salon's committees and juries...

(1871–1954), elected in 1924
Lucien Fontanarosa (1912–1975), elected in 1955
Hans Hartung
Hans Hartung
Hans Hartung was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the French Foreign Legion.-Life:...

(1904–1989), elected in 1977
Jean Dewasne (1921–1999), elected in 1991
Yves Millecamps (1930), elected in 2001

Seat #14

This seat was eliminated in 1967.

Carle Vernet (1758–1836), elected in 1816
François-Édouard Picot
François-Édouard Picot
François-Edouard Picot was a French painter during the July Monarchy, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects.-Life:Born in Paris, Picot won the Prix de Rome painting scholarship in 1813...

(1786–1868), elected in 1836
Isidore Pils
Isidore Pils
Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils was a French painter.Pils was born in Paris as the son of a soldier. At the age of twelve, he studied with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière for four years...

(1815–1875), elected in 1868
William Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau was a traditionalist; in his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of Classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.-Life and career :William-Adolphe...

(1825–1905), elected in 1876
François Flameng
François Flameng
François Flameng was a very successful French painter during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th. He was the son of a celebrated engraver and received a first-rate education in his craft. Flameng initially received renown for his history painting and portraiture,...

(1856–1923), elected in 1905
Emile Friant
Émile Friant
Émile Friant was a French artist. Friant was born in the commune of Dieuze, however he was later forced to flee to Nancy. Throughout his lifetime, his paintings were featured at the Salon. Friant died after a fall in Paris in 1932.- Early life :Friant was born in the commune of Dieuze in 1863...

(1863–1932), elected in 1923
Paul Laurens (1870–1934), elected in 1933
Jacques Blanck (1861–1942), elected in 1935
Louis Désiré-Lucas (1869–1949), elected in 1943
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Jean-Gabriel Domergue was a French painter specialising in portraits of Parisian women.- Biography :Domergue was born on March 4, 1889 in Bordeaux and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. From the 1920s onward he concentrated on portraits, and claimed to be "the inventor of...

(1889–1962), elected in 1950
Jean Lurçat
Jean Lurçat
Jean Lurçat was a French artist noted for his role in the revival of contemporary tapestry.-Biography:He was born in Bruyères, Vosges, the son of Lucien Jean Baptiste Lurçat and Marie Emilie Marguerite L'Hote. He was the brother of André Lurçat, who became an architect...

(1892–1966), elected in 1964

Seat #1

elected 1795 : Jacques Gondoin (1737-1818)
1819 : Maximilien Joseph Hurtault (1765-1824)
1824 : Pierre-Jules Delespine (1756-1825)
1825 : Louis-Hippolyte Lebas
Louis-Hippolyte Lebas
Louis-Hippolyte Lebas was a French architect working in a rational and severe Neoclassical style, who was trained in the atelier of Percier and Fontaine, the favoured architects of Napoleon...

(1782-1867)
1868 : Léon Vaudoyer
Léon Vaudoyer
Léon Vaudoyer was a French architect. He was one of the "romantic" Beaux-Arts architects influenced by Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte, along with his contemporaries Félix Duban, Henri Labrouste, and Louis Duc....

(1803-1872)
1872 : Théodore Ballu
Théodore Ballu
Théodore Ballu was a French architect.He entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1835 and was the pupil of Louis-Hippolyte Lebas....

(1817-1885)
1885 : Honoré Daumet
Honoré Daumet
Pierre Jérôme Honoré Daumet was a French architect.Daumet was the winner of the Prix de Rome in 1855, and in 1861 conducted a treasure-hunting expedition to Macedonia at the request of Napoleon III, accompanying the archaeologist Léon Heuzey...

(1826-1911)
1912 : Edmond Paulin (1848-1915)
1918 : Henri Deglane
Henri Deglane
Henri Deglane was a French wrestler. He was an Olympic Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling and a world champion professional wrestler.-Olympics:...

(1855-1931)
1931 : Paul Bigot
Paul Bigot
Paul Bigot was a French architect.Bigot was born in Orbec in 1870. He studied architecture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the atelier of Louis-Jules André. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1900, which enabled him to study in Rome at the Villa Medici...

(1870-1942)
1943 : Auguste Perret
Auguste Perret
Auguste Perret was a French architect and a world leader and specialist in reinforced concrete construction. In 2005 his post-WWII reconstruction of Le Havre was declared by UNESCO one of the World Heritage Sites....

(1874-1954)
1954 : Roger-Henri Expert
Roger-Henri Expert
Roger-Henri Expert was a French architect.- Life :The son of a merchant, Expert first studied painting at the École des beaux-arts in Bordeaux, then from 1906 attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Gaston Redon and Gustave Umbdenstock. In 1912 he won the second Prix de...

(1882-1955)
1956 : Charles Nicod
Charles Nicod
Charles Henri Nicod was a French architect active in the period between the two World Wars. He was a winner of the grand prix de Rome. His works include the Hotel Majestic in Cannes....

(1878-1967)
1968 : Jean de Mailly
Jean de Mailly
Jean Pierier of Mailly, called Jean de Mailly, was a Dominican chronicler working in Metz in the mid-13th century. In his Latin chronicle of the Diocese of Metz, Chronica universalis Mettensis, the fable of Pope Joan first appears in written form....

(1911-1975)
1976 : Jacques Couëlle
Jacques Couëlle
Jacques Couëlle was a French architect, whose work was marked by the movement of architecture, sculpture.- Biography :Jacques Couëlle is a self-taught architect. Uncategorised, he remains on the margins of major movements in architecture and in particular the Modern Movement...

(1902-1996)
1998 : André Wogenscky (1916-2004)
2008 : Jacques Rougerie (1945)

Seat #2

1795 : Antoine-François Peyre (1739-1823)
1823 : Antoine Vaudoyer (1756-1846)
1846 : Jean-Baptiste Lesueur (1791-1883)
1884 : Louis-Jules André
Louis-Jules André
Louis-Jules André was a French academic architect and the head of an important atelier at the École des Beaux-Arts.- Biography :...

(1819-1890)
1890 : Jean-Louis Pascal
Jean-Louis Pascal
Jean-Louis Pascal was an academic French architect.- Life :Born in Paris, Pascal was taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts by Émile Gilbert and Charles-Auguste Questel...

(1837-1920)
1920 : Jean-Camille Formigé
Jean-Camille Formigé
Jean-Camille Formigé was a French architect. His son was Jules Formigé.-Projects:*Austerlitz Viaduct *Bir-Hakeim Viaduct *Metro Line 2 Viaduct, Paris -Notes:...

(1845-1926)
1926 : Alexandre Marcel
Alexandre Marcel
Alexandre Marcel was a French architect, best known for his Belle Époque interpretations of "exotic" international architectural styles.Marcel studied at the Parisian École des Beaux-Arts in the atelier of Louis-Jules André...

(1860-1928)
1928 : Alphonse Defrasse (1860-1939)
1939 : Patrice Bonnet (1879-1964)
1961 : Noël Le Maresquier (1903-1982)
1983 : Bernard Zehrfuss
Bernard Zehrfuss
Bernard Louis Zehrfuss was a French architect.-Life:From a family that had fled from the Alsace in 1870 after the Franco-Prussian War, Zehrfuss's father was killed in the First Battle of the Marne in 1914...

(1911-1996)
1998 : Michel Folliasson (1925)

Seat #3

1795 : Pierre Paris (1745-1819)
1796 : Léon Dufourny (1754-1818)
1818 : Jean-Thomas Thibault (1757-1826)
1826 : Éloi Labarre
Éloi Labarre
Étienne Éloi Labarre was a French architect.He produced the plans for the Colonne de la grande Armée at Wimille, erected in 1804 on the order of Napoléon I...

(1764-1833)
1833 : Auguste Guenepin
Auguste Guenepin
Auguste Jean Marie Guenepin was a French architect.He was the son of Étienne François Edmé Guenepin and Marie Madeleine Delfau and Aimée Desenne's husband....

(1780-1842)
1842 : Martin-Pierre Gauthier (1790-1855)
1855 : Hector Lefuel
Hector Lefuel
Hector-Martin Lefuel was a French historicist architect, whose most familiar work was the completion of the Palais du Louvre, including the reconstruction of the Pavillon de Flore after a disastrous fire.He was the son of Alexandre Henry Lefuel , an entrepreneurial speculative builder established...

(1810-1880)
1881 : Léon Ginain (1825-1898)
1898 : Louis Bernier (1845-1919)
1919 : Albert Tournaire (1862-1958)
1958 : Albert Laprade (1883-1978)
1979 : Maurice Novarina
Maurice Novarina
Maurice Novarina was a French architect; born in Thonon-les-Bains, in Haute-Savoie, he died in the town of his birth. He is best known for having designed the church of Notre-Dame de Toute Grâce du Plateau d'Assy. He was a student of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and later...

(1907-2002)
2008 : Aymeric Zublena (1936)

Seat #4

1795 : Étienne-Louis Boullée
Étienne-Louis Boullée
Étienne-Louis Boullée was a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects and is still influential today.- Life :...

(1728-1799)
1799 : Jacques Denis Antoine
Jacques Denis Antoine
Jacques Denis Antoine was a French architect. His masterwork is the Hôtel des Monnaies in Paris, which gained him entrance to the Académie d'architecture in 1776....

(1733-1801)
1801 : Jean-François Heurtier (1739-1811)
1822 : Jean-Nicolas Huyot
Jean-Nicolas Huyot
Jean-Nicholas Huyot was a French architect, best known for his 1823 continuation of work on the Arc de Triomphe from the plans of Jean Chalgrin....

(1780-1840)
1840 : Auguste Caristie (1783-1862)
1863 : Victor Baltard
Victor Baltard
Victor Baltard , French architect, who was born in Paris, son of architect Louis Baltard.Until 1833, Baltard studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he garnered the Prix de Rome for designing a military school in 1833...

(1805-1874)
1874 : Charles Garnier (1825-1898)
1898 : Constant Moyaux (1835-1911)
1911 : Louis Marie Cordonnier (1854-1940)
1942 : Jules Formigé
Jules Formigé
Jules Formigé was a French architect, the son of Jean-Camille Formigé. He was involved in the restoration of the Trophy of Augustus, Arènes de Lutèce, and the Chartreuse du Val-de-Bénédiction at Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.-External links:...

(1879-1960)
1961 : Eugène Beaudouin (1898-1983)
1983 : Roger Taillibert
Roger Taillibert
Roger Taillibert is a French architect, notable for designing the Parc des Princes in Paris and the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Canada....

(1926)

Seat #5

1795 : Charles De Wailly
Charles De Wailly
Charles De Wailly was a French architect and urbanist, and furniture designer, one of the principals in the Neoclassical revival of the Antique. His major work was the Théâtre de l'Odéon for the Comédie-Française...

(1729-1798)
1799 : Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin (1739-1811)
1811 : Charles Percier
Charles Percier
Charles Percier was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days...

(1764-1838)
1838 : Jean-Jacques Huvé (1783-1852)
1853 : Jacques-Ignace Hittorf (1792-1867)
1867 : Henri Labrouste
Henri Labrouste
Pierre François Henri Labrouste was a French architect from the famous École des Beaux Arts school of architecture. After a six year stay in Rome, Labrouste opened an architectural training workshop, which quickly became the center of the Rationalist view...

(1801-1875)
1875 : Antoine-Nicolas Bailly (1810-1892)
1892 : Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet (1829-1895)
1895 : Henri-Paul Nénot (1853-1934)
1935 : Gustave Umbdenstock (1866-1940)
1942 : Paul Tournon
Paul Tournon
Paul Tournon was a French architect. He was born in Marseille and died in Paris.He was an architect in chief of many French civil buildings and national palaces, and a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts....

(1881-1964)
1965 : Urbain Cassan (1890-1979)
1979 : André Remondet (1908-1998)
1999 : Jean Balladur (1924-2002)
2005 : Claude Parent (1923)

Seat #6

1795 : Jean-Arnaud Raymond (1742-1811)
1811 : Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853)
1853 : Émile Jacques Gilbert (1793-1874)
1875 : Paul Abadie
Paul Abadie
Paul Abadie was a French architect and building restorer.-Biography:Abadie worked on the restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris, Église Sainte-Croix of Bordeaux, Saint-Pierre of Angoulême and Saint-Front of Périgueux...

(1812-1884)
1884 : Arthur-Stanislas Diet (1827-1890)
1890 : Alfred-Nicolas Normand (1822-1909)
1909 : Victor Laloux
Victor Laloux
Victor Alexandre Frederic Laloux was a French Beaux-Arts architect and teacher.- Life :Born in Tours, Laloux studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts atelier of Louis-Jules André, with his studies interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, and was awarded the annual Prix de Rome in 1878...

(1850-1937)
1938 : Charles Lemaresquier (1870-1972)
1972 : Marc Saltet (1906-2008)

Seat #7

1815 : Jean-Baptiste Rondelet
Jean-Baptiste Rondelet
Jean-Baptiste Rondelet was an architectural theorist of the late Enlightenment era and chief architect of the church of Sainte-Geneviève. He published a treatise on Architecture between 1805 and 1816. He grew up and helped the world build the Panthéon. Which is still a site today standing 10...

(1743-1829)
1829 : Jacques Molinos (1750-1831)
1831 : Achille Leclère (1785-1853)
1854 : Alphonse de Gisors
Alphonse de Gisors
Henri-Alphonse de Gisors was a 19th-century French architect. His major work is his extension of Salomon de Brosse and Jacques Lemercier's Palais du Luxembourg between 1836 and 1841 - in 1835 he added a new facade overlooking the Luxembourg Gardens, and in 1836 he extended the lateral façades...

(1796-1866)
1867 : Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer
Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer
Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer was a French architect. He won the prix de Rome and designed several public buildings in France, particularly in Paris.-Life:...

(1829-1879)
1879 : Joseph-Louis Duc
Joseph-Louis Duc
Joseph-Louis Duc was a French architect. Duc came to prominence early, with his very well-received work at the July Column in Paris, and spent much of the rest of his career on a single building complex, the Palais de Justice.- Biography :...

(1802-1914)
1914 : Gaston Redon
Gaston Redon
Gaston Redon was a French architect, teacher, and graphic artist. Redon was born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine to a prosperous family, the younger brother of Odilon Redon. Gaston attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the atelier of Louis-Jules André, and took the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1883...

(1853-1921)
1922 : Emmanuel Pontremoli
Emmanuel Pontremoli
Emmanuel Pontremoli was a French architect and archaeologist. Born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, a student in the atelier of Louis-Jules André, in 1890 he won the Prix de Rome in the architecture category and in 1922 became a member of the Académie des Beaux Arts...

(1865-1956)
1957 : Jacques Carlu
Jacques Carlu
Jacques Carlu was a French architect and designer, working mostly in Art Deco style, active in France, Canada, and in the United States....

(1890-1976)
1977 : Christian Langlois
Christian Langlois
Christian Langlois is a Film director from Montreal, Canada. He has directed several short films, music videos and TV spot. He studied at Université du Québec à Montréal in Communications program: video art and new medias. He published several articles about the role of the technologies and the...

(1924-2007)

Seat #8

1815 : Jacques-Charles Bonnard (1765-1818)
1818 : Bernard Poyet (1742-1898)
1825 : François Debret (1777-1850)
1850 : Guillaume Abel Blouet (1795-1853)
1853 : Louis Visconti (1791-1853)
1854 : Félix Duban
Félix Duban
Jacques Félix Duban was a French architect, the contemporary of Jacques Ignace Hittorff and Henri Labrouste.Duban won the Prix de Rome in 1823, the most prestigious award of the École des Beaux-Arts...

(1797-1870)
1871 : Charles-Auguste Questel
Charles-Auguste Questel
Charles-Auguste Questel was a French academic architect and teacher.-Biography:Born in Paris, Questel was a student of Félix Duban at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and took a second-place Prix de Rome in 1844. He became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1871.Questel...

(1807-1888)
1888 : Georges-Ernest Coquart (1831-1902)
1902 : Charles-Louis Girault
Charles Girault
Charles-Louis Girault was a French architect.Born in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, he studied with Honoré Daumet at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He received the first Prix de Rome, awarded him in 1880 on the basis of a design for a hospital for sick children along the...

(1851-1932)
1933 : Henri Prost
Henri Prost
Henri Prost was a French architect and town planner. He was noted in particularly for his work in Morocco and designed a number of city streets and buildings between 1914 and 1922, including Casablanca, Fès, Marrakech, Meknès and Rabat.He was the co-founder in 1911 of the French Society of...

(1874-1959)
1960 : Roger Séassal (1885-1967)
1968 : Guillaume Gillet (1912-1987)

Seat #1

Comte de Vaublanc (1756–1846), elected in 1816
Alphonse de Cailleux
Alphonse de Cailleux
Alphonse de Cailleux, in full Alexandre-Alphonse-Achille, vicomte de Cailloux was a painter, connoisseur and arts administrator who became director of the Musée du Louvre and all the royal museums of France. Under the Bourbon Restoration he was attached to the reconstituted royal household...

(1787–1876), elected in 1845
Émile Perrin
Émile Perrin
Émile-César-Victor Perrin was a French painter, mainly known as a theatre director and impresario, born in Rouen on 9 January 1814, died 8 October 1885. His son-in-law was Camille du Locle....

(1815–1885), elected in 1876
Alphonse de Rothschild
Alphonse James de Rothschild
Mayer Alphonse James Rothschild , was a French, financier, vineyard owner, art collector, philanthropist, racehorse owner/breeder and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France.-Biography:...

(1827–1905), elected in 1885
Paul Richer
Paul Richer
Paul Marie Louis Pierre Richer was a French anatomist, physiologist, sculptor and anatomical artist who was a native of Chartres...

(1849–1933), elected in 1905
David David-Weill (1871–1952), elected in 1934
Albert Sarraut
Albert Sarraut
Albert-Pierre Sarraut was a French Radical politician, twice Prime Minister during the Third Republic.Sarraut was born in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.He was Governor-General of French Indochina, from 1912 to 1919....

(1872–1962), elected in 1953
Robert Rey (1888–1964), elected in 1964
André Arbus (1903–1969), elected in 1965
Pierre David-Weill
Pierre David-Weill
Pierre David-Weill was a French investment banker.Born Pierre Sylvain Désiré Gérard David-Weill in Paris, France, he was the son of Flora Raphael and David David-Weill , Chairman of Lazard Frères...

(1900–1975), elected in 1970
Germain Bazin (1901–1990), elected in 1975
Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau was an internationally acclaimed French actor and mime most famous for his persona as Bip the Clown.-Early years:...

(1923–2007), elected in 1991
William Christie
William Christie (musician)
William Lincoln Christie is an American-born French conductor and harpsichordist. He is noted as a specialist in baroque repertoire and as the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants....

(1944), elected in 2008

Seat #2

Pierre Blacas d'Aulps (1771–1839), elected in 1816
Aristide Dumont (1790–1853), elected in 1839
Émilien de Nieuwerkerke
Émilien de Nieuwerkerke
Count Alfred Émilien O'Hara van Nieuwerkerke was a French sculptor of Dutch descent and a high-level civil servant in the Second French Empire...

(1811–1892), elected in 1853
Emile Michel (1828–1909), elected in 1892
Jules Comte (1816–1912), elected in 1909
Henry Lemonnier (1842–1936), elected in 1913
Maurice de Rothschild (1881–1957), elected in 1937

Seat #3

Comte de Vaudreuil
Joseph Hyacinth Francois de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil
Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, comte de Vaudreuil was a French nobleman at the court of King Louis XVI of France. He was the alleged lover of Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, the favourite of Marie Antoinette and over whom he exerted a powerful influence.He was a...

(1740–1817), elected in 1816
Duc de Richelieu
Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu
Armand Emmanuel Sophie Septimanie de Vignerot du Plessis, 5th Duke of Richelieu was a prominent French statesman during the Bourbon Restoration...

(1766–1822), elected in 1817
Jacques Lauriston
Jacques Lauriston
Jacques Alexandre Bernard Law, marquis de Lauriston was a French soldier and diplomat of Scottish descent, the son of Jacques François Law de Lauriston , and a general officer in the French army during the Napoleonic Wars. He was born in Pondicherry in India...

(1768–1828), elected in 1822
Joseph Siméon (1781–1846), elected in 1828
Charles Duchatel (1803–1867), elected in 1846
Henri Delaborde
Henri Delaborde
Henri François Delaborde was a French general in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.-Early career:He was the son of a baker of Dijon. In 1783, Delaborde joined the Regiment of Condé as a private...

(1811–1899), elected in 1868
Jacques de Cardaillac (1818–1879), elected in 1874
Duc d'Aumale
Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale
-Bibliophile:He was a noted collector of old manuscripts and books. His library remains at Chantilly.-Death:By his will of the June 3, 1884, however, he had bequeathed to the Institute of France his Chantilly estate, including the Château de Chantilly, with all the art-collection he had collected...

(1822–1897), elected in 1880
Prince d'Arenberg
Auguste-Louis-Albéric, prince d'Arenberg
Auguste-Louis-Albéric, prince d'Arenberg was a French noble and monarchist politician, born in Paris. Third son of Pierre d'Alcantara Charles Marie, duc d'Arenberg and Alix de Talleyrand-Périgord, he inherited his father's title because of his older brothers' premature deaths.He was noted for his...

(1837–1924), elected in 1897
Jacques Rouché (1862–1957), elected in 1924
Raymond Subes (1891–1970), elected in 1958
Daniel Wildenstein
Daniel Wildenstein
Daniel Leopold Wildenstein was a French art dealer and scholar, as well as a leading thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder....

(1917–2001), elected in 1971
Hugues R. Gall (1940), elected in 2002

Seat #4

Comte de Pradel (1779–1857), elected in 1816
Achille Fould
Achille Fould
Achille Fould was a French financier and politician.Born in Paris, the son of a successful Jewish banker, he was associated with and afterwards succeeded his father in the management of the business. As early as 1842 he entered political life, having been elected in that year as a deputy for the...

(1800–1867), elected in 1857
Baron Haussmann
Baron Haussmann
Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann , was a French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris...

(1809–1891), elected in 1867
Jean Alphand (1817–1891), elected in 1891
Georges Lafenestre (1837–1919), elected in 1892
Vicomte de Castelnau
Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau
Noël Marie Joseph Édouard, Vicomte de Curières de Castelnau was a French general in World War I, one of the leading proponents of the philosophy of attaque à outrance that dominated French military thinking in the early part of the war.Born in Gascony to a family with a long history of military...

(1851–1944), elected in 1919
André Lemoisne (1875–1964), elected in 1945
Paul-Louis Weiller (1893–1993), elected in 1965
Maurice Béjart
Maurice Béjart
Maurice Béjart was a French born, Swiss choreographer who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He was the son of the French philosopher Gaston Berger.- Biography :...

(1927–2007), elected in 1994

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Antoine Castellan (1772–1838), elected in 1816
Comte de Clarac
Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste de Clarac
Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste, Comte de Clarac was a French artist, scholar and archaeologist.-Life:Emigrating on the Revolution, he travelled round Europe, finding success in drawing and archaeology. He became tutor to the children of Joachim Murat, king of Naples, and was charged by...

(1777–1847), elected in 1838
Baron Taylor
Baron Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor
Baron Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor was a royal commissioner of the Théâtre-Français. He was responsible for editing Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France, a celebrated collection of lithographed drawings and paintings....

(1789–1879), elected in 1847
Marquis de Chennevières (1820–1899), elected in 1879
Henri Roujon (1853–1914), elected in 1899
Georges Berger
Georges Berger
Georges Berger was a racing driver who raced a Gordini in his two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix....

(1834–1910), elected in 1903
Théophile Homolle (1848–1925), elected in 1910
Etienne Moreau-Nelaton
Étienne Moreau-Nélaton
Adolphe Étienne Auguste Moreau-Nélaton was a French painter, art collector and art historian. His large collection is today held in its entirety by National French museums.-Family:...

(1859–1927), elected in 1925
Louis Hourticq (1875–1944), elected in 1927
François Labrousse (1878–1951), elected in 1945
Julien Cain
Julien Cain
Julien Cain was the general administrator of the Bibliothèque nationale de France before the Occupation of France by Nazi Germany....

(1887–1975), elected in 1952
Bernard Gavoty (1908–1981), elected in 1975
Michel David-Weill
Michel David-Weill
Michel David-Weill is a French investment banker and former Chairman of New York City based Lazard Frères.He is the son of Berthe Haardt and Lazard Frères chairman Pierre David-Weill...

(1932), elected in 1982

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Comte de Turpin-Crissé (1782–1859), elected in 1816
Georges Kastner (1810–1867), elected in 1859
Comte de Walewski (1810–1868), elected in 1868
Charles Blanc
Charles Blanc
Charles Blanc was a French art critic, brother of Louis Blanc. After the February Revolution of 1848, he was director of the department for the visual arts at the ministry of the interior...

(1813–1882), elected in 1868
Edmond du Sommerard (1817–1885), elected in 1882
Léon Heuzey
Léon Heuzey
Léon Heuzey was a noted French archaeologist and historian.In 1855 Heuzey came to Greece as a member of the École française d'Athènes, and for the next two years traveled extensively in Macedonia and Akarnania. The record he kept of his journey, "Le Mont Olympe et l'Acarnanie", was published in...

(1831–1922), elected in 1885
Paul Léon (1874–1962), elected in 1922
Georges Wildenstein
Georges Wildenstein
Georges Wildenstein was a French gallery owner, art collector, editor and art historian.-Life:Georges' father was Nathan Wildenstein, who came from a family of Jewish cattle-dealers but had in 1870 left Alsace aged twenty when it was annexed in the Franco-Prussian War and moved to Paris...

(1892–1963), elected in 1963
René Dumesnil (1879–1967), elected in 1965
Gérald van der Kemp (1912–2002), elected in 1968
Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere, elected in 2005

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Comte de Choiseul Gouffier
Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier
Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier was a member of the Académie Française and the Choiseul-Gouffier family, French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1784 until the fall of the French monarchy and a scholar of ancient Greece.-Life:Right from his studies at the collège...

(1752–1817), elected in 1816
Comte de Chabrol de Volvic (1773–1843), elected in 1817
Comte de Rambuteau (1781–1869), elected in 1843
Albert Lenoir (1801–1891), elected in 1869
Georges Duplessis (1834–1899), elected in 1891
Jules Guiffrey (1840–1918), elected in 1899
Maurice Fenaille
Maurice Fenaille
Maurice Fenaille was a French businessman and pioneer in the petroleum industry. He was also a major amateur art historian, collector and patron....

(1855–1937), elected in 1919
Gabriel Cognacq (1880–1951), elected in 1938
Louis Hautecœur (1884–1973), elected in 1952
Pierre Dehaye (1921), elected in 1975

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Etienne Gois (1731–1823), elected in 1816
Marquis de Pastoret (1791–1857), elected in 1823
Prince N. Bonaparte
Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte
Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, Prince Français, Count of Meudon, Count of Moncalieri ad personam, titular 3rd Prince of Montfort was the second son of Jérôme Bonaparte, king of Westphalia, by his wife Catherine, princess of Württemberg...

(1822–1891), elected in 1857
Louis Larroumet (1852–1903), elected in 1891
Comte de Delaborde (1811–1899), elected in 1898
Philippe Gille
Philippe Gille
Philippe Gille was a French dramatist and opera librettist. He wrote over twenty librettos between 1857 and 1893, the most famous of which are Massenet's Manon and Delibes' Lakmé.-Librettos by Philippe Gille:...

(1830–1901), elected in 1899
Edouard Aynard (1837–1913), elected in 1901
Louis de Fourcaud (1851–1914), elected in 1913
André Michel
André Michel
André Michel was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 15 films between 1947 and 1983. He is the father of novelist Natacha Michel who is also a political activist and militant...

(1853–1925), elected in 1918
Adolphe Boschot (1871–1955), elected in 1926
Henri Verne (1880–1949), elected in 1937
Jean Bourguignon
Jean Bourguignon
Jean-Jules Bourguignon was a Belgian inventor. Having left school at the age of 16, he had a variety of jobs while developing his inventing skills....

(1876–1953), elected in 1949
Charles Kunstler (1887–1977), elected in 1954
Pierre Dux
Pierre Dux
Pierre Dux was a French actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1932 and 1990.-Selected filmography:* The Reader * Section spéciale * Z * Is Paris Burning?...

(1908–1990), elected in 1978
Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin Cardin was known for his avant-garde style and his Space Age designs. He prefers geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions, sometimes experimental, and not always practical...

(1922), elected in 1992

Seat #9

Comte de Forbin
Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin
Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste, comte de Forbin was the French painter and antiquary who succeeded Vivant-Denon as curator of the Musée du Louvre and the other museums of France....

(1777–1841), elected in 1816
Comte de Houdetot (1778–1859), elected in 1841
Frédéric Mercey (1803–1860), elected in 1859
Jules Pelletier (1823–1875), elected in 1860
François Gruyer (1825–1909), elected in 1875
Justin Deselves (1818–1934), elected in 1910
René Baschet (1860–1949), elected in 1935
Comte Doria (1890–1977), elected in 1950
Marcel Carné
Marcel Carné
-Biography:Born in Paris, France, the son of a cabinet maker whose wife died when their son was five, Carné began his career as a film critic, becoming editor of the weekly publication, Hebdo-Films, and working for Cinémagazine and Cinémonde between 1929 and 1933. In the same period he worked in...

(1906–1996), elected in 1979

Seat #10

Vicomte de Senonnes (1781–1840), elected in 1816
Comte de Montalivet (1801–1880), elected in 1840
Joseph Barbet de Jouy (1812–1896), elected in 1880
Edouard Corroyer (1835–1904), elected in 1896
Henri Bouchot (1849–1906), elected in 1904
Edmond de Rothschild (1845–1934), elected in 1906
Amiral Lacaze (1860–1955), elected in 1935
Jacques Jaujard (1895–1967), elected in 1955
Gaston Palewski
Gaston Palewski
Gaston Palewski , French politician, was a close associate of Charles de Gaulle during and after World War II. He is also remembered as the lover of the English novelist Nancy Mitford, and appears in a fictionalised form in two of her novels.-Biography:Palewski was born in Paris, the son of an...

(1901–1984), elected in 1968
Louis Pauwels
Louis Pauwels
Louis Pauwels was a French journalist and writer.- Biography :Louis Pauwels was a teacher at Athis-Mons from 1939 to 1945 , Louis Pauwels wrote in many monthly literary French magazines as early as 1946 until the...

(1920–1997), elected in 1985
Henri Loyrette
Henri Loyrette
Henri Loyrette was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. He became first curator and then director of the Musée d'Orsay in 1978 and 1994 respectively. He became director of the Louvre Museum in 2001.-Career:...

(1952), elected in 1997

Seat #11

Seat created by decree on 18 June 1946

Louis Réau (1881–1961), elected in 1947
André Cornu (1892–1980), elected in 1962
Michel Faré (1913–1985), elected in 1981
André Bettencourt
André Bettencourt
André Bettencourt was a French politician. He had been awarded the Croix de Guerre, and is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...

(1919–2007), elected in 1986

Seat #12

Seat created by decree on 18 June 1946 and suppressed by decree on 28 November 1956.

François Debat (1882–1956), elected in 1947

Seat #13

Seat created by decree on 8 June 1998

François-Bernard Michel (1936), elected in 2000

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