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1685
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According to
Académie d'Angers (1987), p.48,
Louis XIV founded the Academy on 1685, June 10 as the
Académie Royale des Belles-Lettres d'Angers.
The
CTHS - Sociétés Savantes database indicates that
beginning in 1760, its name became
Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts d'Angers.
According to
Académie d'Angers (1987), p.16,
the Academy was suppressed in 1793.
According to
Académie d'Angers (1987), p.32,
the Academy collaborated with the
Société d'Agriculture that had been founded at Tours
in 1761, and which had a section at Angers.
According to
Académie d'Angers (1987), p.16,
in the early years of the 19th century, there were unsuccessful attempts
to revive the Academy;
and it was not until 1828 that it was revived as the
Société d'Agriculture, Sciences et Arts d'Angers.
According to
Académie d'Angers (1987), p.32,
this new society took up again the activities of the former Academy of
Angers and also the Société d'Agriculture.
The
CTHS - Sociétés Savantes database,
however, gives its name from 1828 as the
Société Royale d'Agriculture, Sciences et Arts
d'Angers.
According to
Académie d'Angers (1987), p.34,
in 1857 a rival society named
Société Académique de Maine-et-Loire was
formed.
If we examine records in the
Bibliot. Nat. France cat., we find a record for
a publication of this body, entitled
Mémoires de la Société Académique de
Maine-et-Loire, published 1857-1874 as t.1 - t.30.
According to
Académie d'Angers (1987), p.17,
as a result of a schism arising in the
Société d'Agriculture, Sciences et Arts d'Angers, the
Société Académique was created in 1881, but
that this dual existence lasted only fifteen years (i.e. to about 1896);
after this, one presumes that the new society either merged with the old,
or ceased to exist for some other reason.
Interestingly, the
CTHS - Sociétés Savantes database indicates that
beginning in 1881, the name of the
Société Royale d'Agriculture, Sciences et Arts
d'Angers became
Académie des Sciences et Belles-Lettres d'Angers,
a claim that is not borne out by the cataloguing data for the
society under consideration.
If, however, we examine records in the
Bibliot. Nat. France cat., we find a record for
the following publication:
Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences et Belles-lettres
d'Angers
published 1890/91 - 1896/97 as n.s. t.1 - t.4, with the indication that
this is a continuation of
Mémoires de la Société Académique de
Maine-et-Loire.
It is hard to know how best to interpret this information. It is possible
that the rival society and the society resulting from the schism
are one and the same, with only a name change around 1881, and then
cessation of independent existence around 1896.
Finally, according to
Académie d'Angers (1987), p.17,
on 1947, April 15, the
Société d'Agriculture, Sciences et Arts d'Angers once
again became an academy, taking the name of
Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts d'Angers.
Note: on pp.16-17 of
Académie d'Angers (1987), p.17,
there is a vague reference to a history of the Société
d'Agriculture by Omnès and Debroise.
These are evidently Gabriel Omnès and
Alain Debroise, two members
of the Academy at the time of the 1987 commemorative publication.
This history appeared perhaps as one or more periodical articles in the
Academy's
Mémoires.
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