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The institute manages approximately one thousand foundations. It also awards prizes and subsidies, which amounted to a total of 5,028,190.55 euros for 2002. Most of these prizes are awarded by the Institute on the recommendation of the académies.

1 History

The Institut de France was created on October 25, 1795.

2 Académies

• Académie française (French Academy, concerning the French language) - founded in 1635
• Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (Academy of Humanities) - founded in 1663
• Académie des sciences (Academy of Sciences) - founded in 1666
• Académie des beaux-arts (Academy of Fine Arts) - created in 1816 as the merger of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648Events Peace treaty signed at Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War. The Dutch and the Spanish sign the Treaty of Munster, ending the Eighty Years' War. The Spanish Empire recognizes the Dutch Republic of United Netherlands as a sovereign state, (governed), the Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669Events Samuel Pepys stopped writing his diary. The Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb destroys several Hindu temples and banned the whole religion, so Hindus rebel. Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin Famine in Bengal kills 3 million people The Hanseatic Leagu) and the Académie d'architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671Events May 9 Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He would later be condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned an)
• Académie des sciences morales et politiquesThe Academie des sciences morales et politiques is a French learned society. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academie was founded in 1795, suppressed in 1803, and reestablished in 1832. External link http://www. fr/ Learned (Academy of Moral Sciences and Politics) - founded in 1795, suppressed in 1803Events January 30 Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans. They end completing the Louisiana Purchase. February 24 The Supreme Court of the United States, in Marbury v. Madison establishes the principle of judicial r, reestablished in 1832Events February 12 Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands February 12 serious cholera epidemic begins in London from the East London. It is declared officially over in early May but deaths continue. At least 3000 victims March 24 In Hiram, Ohio a group of

3 Influence

The Royal Society of CanadaThe Royal Society of Canada The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. Its primary objective is to promote learning and research in the natural and social sciences and, founded in 1882, was modeled after the Institut de France and the Royal Society of London.