Definition:Académie Parisienne

Definition
The Académie Parisienne was an informal academic society established in 1635 by the Franciscan friar, sponsored and encouraged by Cardinal Richelieu.

It consisted of some 140 correspondents from around Europe, and formed a hub of mathematical interaction through which the leading minds of the time could communicate with each other.

's copious correspondence held it all together.

It was to form the nucleus of the later more formal Académie des Sciences.