Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique
| Formation | 1920 |
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| Headquarters | Brussels, Belgium |
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Membership
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| Website | www.arllfb.be |
The Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique, The Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium (ARLLFB) is a Belgian institution which brings together personalities who, through their works, writings, lectures or speeches, have contributed most eminently to the illustration of the French language, either by studying its origins and its evolution, or by publishing works of imagination or criticism. It includes both Belgian and foreign members.
The Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium, also named the "Destréenne", was founded in 1920 by king Albert I of Belgium, at the suggestion of Jules Destrée, minister in charge of Science and Arts, It should not be confused with the Royal Academy of Belgium , the "Teresian", founded in 1772 by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria.
There are three founding principles:
The initial nucleus of the Academy named ten writers: Henri Carton de Wiart, Georges Eekhoud, Iwan Gilkin, Albert Giraud, , Maurice Maeterlinck, Albert Mockel, , Paul Spaak, . And for the philological section, its first four members were representatives of the Liège school of philology: , , Jules Feller and Jean Haust.
The autonomy of the Academy is assured by the recommendation that the elections take place by co-optation. Its composition is defined as follows: thirty members of Belgian origin, including twenty literary writers and ten philologists; Ten foreign members, including six writers and four philologists for a total of forty members
In the year following creation, the newly invited members included Anna de Noailles, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Swiss novelist and the French grammarian Ferdinand Brunot.
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