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1695
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A founding date of 1695 is given on p.19 of T.1 of
Roche
(1978).
Its website
( )
indicates that this Academy followed a prior "Société particulière de Gens de Lettres" formed in 1667. It also noted that based on the success of that Society, in December of 1695, the Duc d'Orléans (brother of Louis XIV) became interested in creating a formal entity, and obtained letters patent to establish an Académie Royale.
The
CTHS - Sociétés Savantes database
indicates that the Academy was originally founded around the jurist
Alexandre Bessie du Peloux in 1677, and became a royal academy when
Louis XIV granted it letters patent in 1695.
The
CTHS - Sociétés Savantes database, however, gives 1695
as the Date de création, suggesting that, in some
sense the entity founded in 1677 was rather more informal in nature
than that of 1695.
According to the
CTHS - Sociétés Savantes database,
the Academy was suppressed in 1793, then was revived in 1899 as the
Société des Sciences et Arts du Beaujolais,
was changed in 1930 to
Société des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres du
Beaujolais, and then in 1964 became the
Académie de Villefranche-en-Beaujolais.
A bit further down on the page at the
CTHS - Sociétés Savantes database,
however, we read that the entity had the name
Société des Sciences, Arts et Lettres du Beaujolais
[not Belles-Lettres]
from 1930 to 1956 [not 1963 or 1964].
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