belles-lettres
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In the course of obtaining permission to scan the Paris scrolls, Seales had to give a presentation, in French, to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, an academy within the Institut de France.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015
He even changed the name of the Prussian Academy to the Academic des Sciences et Belles-Lettres.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the Acad�mie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux was calling for a song to make Frenchmen drink more wine.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Institute is composed of five bodies : the French Academy, the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Fine Arts, the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everett became Professor of Greek in 1815; and George Ticknor, Professor of Belles-Lettres in 1816.
From Union and Democracy by Johnson, Allen
