The Académie Française has offered official translations of English loanwords The Académie Française has offered official translations of English loanwords is a senior reporter who has covered AI, ...
The Académie Française, as French an institution as the guillotine and Daft Punk, has been admired and mocked since it was founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635. Then and now, it has been synonymous ...
In April, after the deaths in recent years of such venerable French Jewish members as anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss and biologist François Jacob, the Académie française increased its quotient of ...
His lauded fiction satirized abuses of power in the continent, but as a high official for the Republic of Congo, he benefited from a much-criticized government. By Adam Nossiter When a French ...
They made international headlines with their pronouncement that Covid-19 is feminine and are frequently at the centre of language arguments - but just who are the 'guardians' of the French language?
The Académie française, one of France’s oldest and most prestigious institutions, on Thursday formally invested a British citizen as one of its own. Clad in their signature black coats with bright ...
The Académie Française was given official status by Cardinal Richelieu in 1639. It has always been essentially a linguistic jury whose role it is to make decisions on how French should be used, with ...