Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope is the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy), historical literature (see Belles-lettres) and the cultures of the civilizations of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the classical period, as well as those of non-European civilizations. Provided by Wikipedia