To be a member of the Institut de France, is, theoretically the highest honor that the French Republic can pay its painters, writers, musicians, sculptors, scientists and occasionally statesmen, ...

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The Nuit Blanche is back in Paris, for a 2026 edition packed with original and intriguing discoveries. This year, we head to the Institut de France, a historic building opposite t ...

Former minister and Académie Française member Xavier Darcos, at the Institut de France, Paris, October 25, 2022. LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP Never has a campaign been so discreet – as was its result, which was ...

Under the stately cupola of the Institut de France, some 20 Living Immortals buzzed away busily last week. In the most felicitous phrases of the world’s most crystallized and elegant language, they ...