See also:

• CONRART (or CONRARD), VALENTIN (1603-1675)

CONRART (or CONRARD), VALENTIN (1603-1675)  , one of the founders of the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris of Calvinist parents . He was educated for a commercial See also:

• LIFE

life; but after his See also:

• FATHER

father's See also:

• DEATH

death in 162o he began to come into contact with men of letters, and soon acquired a See also:

• LITERARY

literary reputation, though he wrote nothing for many years . He was made councillor and secretary to the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king; and in 1629 his See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house became the resort of men of letters, who met to talk over literary subjects, and to read and mutually criticize their See also:

• WORKS

works . See also:

• CARDINAL (Lat. cardinalis)

Cardinal See also:

• RICHELIEU, ARMAND EMMANUEL SOPHIE SEPTEMANIE DU PLESSIS
• RICHELIEU, ARMAND JEAN DU PLESSIS
• RICHELIEU, LOUIS FRANCOIS ARMAND DU PLESSIS

Richelieu offered the society his See also:

• PROTECTION

protection, and in this way (1635) the French Academy was created . Its first meetings were held in the house of See also:

• CONRART (or CONRARD), VALENTIN (1603-1675)

Conrart, who was unanimously elected secretary, and discharged the duties of his See also:

• POST

post for See also:

• FORTY

forty-three years, till his death on the 23rd of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1675 . The most important of Conrart's works is his Memoires sur l'histoire de son temps published by L . J . N. de Monmerque in 1825 . See also R . Kerviler and Edouard de See also:

• BARTHELEMY
• BARTHELEMY, ANATOLE
• BARTHELEMY, AUGUSTE MARSEILLE (1796–1867)
• BARTHELEMY, FRANCOIS, MARQUIS DE (1747 or 1750-1830)
• BARTHELEMY, JEAN JACQUES (1716–1795)

Barthelemy, Conran, sa See also:

• VIE

vie et sa correspondance (1881); C . B . See also:

• PETITOT, JEAN (1608–1691)
• PETITOT, JEAN LOUIS (1652–c. 1730)

Petitot, Memoires relatifs a l'histoire de See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, tome xlviii .

; and Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi (19 juillet 1858) .