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Following the passing of Marc Fumaroli yesterday, I thought it was a good idea to start a new topic concerning the 40 French/frail academicians. 

To be honest, I was quite hesitant to make it as a game just like the oldest state leaders alive where everyone can choose a candidate between the remaining one, but maybe a simple topic about is enough ? Let me know if a game sounds interesting for you ! 

Anyway, I doubt those people are barely even famous outside of France (except for a few one) and, even here, there's some names which remains quite unknown ! 

 

Here are the 33 remaining academician alive after Fumaroli's death

 

- René de Obaldia (seat n°22) : 1918 

- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (seat n°16) : 1926

- Jean Denis Bredin (seat n°3) : 1929 

- Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (seat n°14) : 1929 

- Dominique Fernandez (seat n°25) : 1929

- François Cheng (seat n°34) : 1929

- Gabriel de Broglie (seat n°11) : 1931 

- Pierre Nora (seat n°27) : 1931 

- Pierre Rosenberg (seat n°23) : 1936 

- Michael Edwards (seat n°31) : 1938 

- Claude Dagens (seat n°1) : 1940 

- Angelo Rinaldi (seat n°20) : 1940 

- Jean Clair (seat n°39) : 1940 

- Daniel Sallenave (seat n°30) : 1940 

- Florence Delay (seat n°10) : 1941 

- Jules Hoffman (seat n°7) : 1941 

- Jean Marie Rouart (seat n°26) : 1943 

- Frédéric Vitoux (seat n°15) : 1944

- Michel Zink (seat n°37) : 1945

- Jean-Luc Marion (seat n°4) : 1946 

- Eric Orsenna (seat n°17) : 1947 

- Patrick Grainville (seat n°9) : 1947 

- Xavier Darcos (seat n°40) : 1947 

- Barbara Cassin (seat n°36) : 1947 

- Daniel Rondeau (seat n°8) : 1948 

- Amin Maalouf (seat n°29) : 1949 

- Alain Finkielkraut (seat n°21) : 1949 

- Jean Christophe Ruffin (seat n°28) : 1952 

- Danny Lafferière (seat n°2) : 1953

- Dominique Bona (seat n°33) : 1953 

- Maurizio Serra (seat n°13) : 1954 

- Marc Lambron (seat n°38) : 1957 

- Andreï Makine (seat n°5) : 1957 

 

There is actually 7 seats empty

- N°6 : following the death of Marc Fumaroli the 24th of June of 2020 

N°12 : following the death of Jean d'Ormesson the 5th of December of 2017

- N°18 : following the death of Michelle Serres the 1st of June of 2019

- N°19 : following the death of Jean-Loup Dabadie the 24th of May of 2020

- N°24 : following the death of Max Gallo the 18th of July of 2017

- N°32 : following the death of François Weyergens the 27th of May of 2019

- N°35 : following the death of Yves Pouliquen the 4th of February of 2020

 

Noted that there is actually 3 deaths of French academicians this year, the deadlier year for academicians is 2007 with 7 deaths. Plus the deaths of Dabadie and Fumaroli are exactly one month appart : could we expect another death on the 24th of July now ? 

So, now, who will be the next one to die ? Who will be the next one to join this frail assembly ? 

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I don't know how to edit the topic but I've just figured I forgot an -s at the end of "academician" on the title

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Je pense que ce topic n'est que pour des français donc autant répondre en français x)

 

Pour ma part j'ai misé sur trois académiciens cette année: Giscard d'Estaing pour son importance, René de Obaldia pour son grand âge et Jean-Denis Bredin pour avoir lu un article autour de l'affaire Tapie et qui disait qu'il n'était plus que l'ombre de lui-même...

 

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Plus largement j'ai dans ma liste d'autres académiciens membres des autres académies de l'Institut:

Luc Montagnier (6) et Jean-Pierre Serre (34) Ac des Sciences, Christian Poncelet (8) Ac. des sciences morales et politiques, Pierre Cardin (24) Ac. des Beaux-art

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I think Bredin is the closest to the heaven's door, having not appeared in public for ages.

 

Both Obaldia and Valery are however still sound of mind. They have the potential to see 2021.

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On 25/06/2020 at 20:18, Fantomasss said:

Plus largement j'ai dans ma liste d'autres académiciens membres des autres académies de l'Institut:

Luc Montagnier (6) et Jean-Pierre Serre (34) Ac des Sciences, Christian Poncelet (8) Ac. des sciences morales et politiques, Pierre Cardin (24) Ac. des Beaux-art

Didn’t notice it but Poncelet died un september : https://www.google.fr/amp/s/www.bfmtv.com/amp/politique/christian-poncelet-ancien-president-du-senat-est-mort-a-92-ans_AD-202009110118.html 

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Jean Denis Bredin dead at 92. Obviously I retired him from my shadow list last minute to put Dominique Fernandez at his spot :)))

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Petit émoi à l'Académie française avec l'élection de Mario Vargas Llosa (85 ans!!!), prix Nobel, qui dépasse l'âge limite (75) et n'écrit pas en français ! Il aura probablement un passage rapide sur ce fauteuil comparé à son prédécesseur Michel Serres qui y était resté 28 ans... 

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42 minutes ago, Fantomasss said:

Petit émoi à l'Académie française avec l'élection de Mario Vargas Llosa (85 ans!!!), prix Nobel, qui dépasse l'âge limite (75) et n'écrit pas en français ! Il aura probablement un passage rapide sur ce fauteuil comparé à son prédécesseur Michel Serres qui y était resté 28 ans... 


Ummm... oui?

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On 25/06/2020 at 19:24, Lafaucheuse said:

Following the passing of Marc Fumaroli yesterday, I thought it was a good idea to start a new topic concerning the 40 French/frail academicians. 

To be honest, I was quite hesitant to make it as a game just like the oldest state leaders alive where everyone can choose a candidate between the remaining one, but maybe a simple topic about is enough ? Let me know if a game sounds interesting for you ! 

Anyway, I doubt those people are barely even famous outside of France (except for a few one) and, even here, there's some names which remains quite unknown ! 

 

Here are the 33 remaining academician alive after Fumaroli's death

 

- René de Obaldia (seat n°22) : 1918 

- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (seat n°16) : 1926

- Jean Denis Bredin (seat n°3) : 1929 

- Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (seat n°14) : 1929 

- Dominique Fernandez (seat n°25) : 1929

- François Cheng (seat n°34) : 1929

- Gabriel de Broglie (seat n°11) : 1931 

- Pierre Nora (seat n°27) : 1931 

- Pierre Rosenberg (seat n°23) : 1936 

- Michael Edwards (seat n°31) : 1938 

- Claude Dagens (seat n°1) : 1940 

- Angelo Rinaldi (seat n°20) : 1940 

- Jean Clair (seat n°39) : 1940 

- Daniel Sallenave (seat n°30) : 1940 

- Florence Delay (seat n°10) : 1941 

- Jules Hoffman (seat n°7) : 1941 

- Jean Marie Rouart (seat n°26) : 1943 

- Frédéric Vitoux (seat n°15) : 1944

- Michel Zink (seat n°37) : 1945

- Jean-Luc Marion (seat n°4) : 1946 

- Eric Orsenna (seat n°17) : 1947 

- Patrick Grainville (seat n°9) : 1947 

- Xavier Darcos (seat n°40) : 1947 

- Barbara Cassin (seat n°36) : 1947 

- Daniel Rondeau (seat n°8) : 1948 

- Amin Maalouf (seat n°29) : 1949 

- Alain Finkielkraut (seat n°21) : 1949 

- Jean Christophe Ruffin (seat n°28) : 1952 

- Danny Lafferière (seat n°2) : 1953

- Dominique Bona (seat n°33) : 1953 

- Maurizio Serra (seat n°13) : 1954 

- Marc Lambron (seat n°38) : 1957 

- Andreï Makine (seat n°5) : 1957 

 

There is actually 7 seats empty

- N°6 : following the death of Marc Fumaroli the 24th of June of 2020 

N°12 : following the death of Jean d'Ormesson the 5th of December of 2017

- N°18 : following the death of Michelle Serres the 1st of June of 2019

- N°19 : following the death of Jean-Loup Dabadie the 24th of May of 2020

- N°24 : following the death of Max Gallo the 18th of July of 2017

- N°32 : following the death of François Weyergens the 27th of May of 2019

- N°35 : following the death of Yves Pouliquen the 4th of February of 2020

 

Noted that there is actually 3 deaths of French academicians this year, the deadlier year for academicians is 2007 with 7 deaths. Plus the deaths of Dabadie and Fumaroli are exactly one month appart : could we expect another death on the 24th of July now ? 

So, now, who will be the next one to die ? Who will be the next one to join this frail assembly ? 

De Obaldia gone means seat 22 is in vacancy now. 

 

There is now 6 seats empty

• N°3 following the death of Jean Denis Bredin (01/09/2021)

• N°6 following the death of Marc Fumaroli two years ago 

• N°16 following the death of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (02/12/2020)

• N°19 following the death of Jean-Loup Dabadie two years ago 

• N°22 following today's death of René de Obaldia 

• N°35 : following the death of Yves Pouliquen two years ago 

 

seats 12, 18, 24 and 32 were taken respectively by Chantal Thomas (author born 1945, elected in 2021), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian author born 1936, elected in 2021), Francois Sureau (author and lawyer born 1957, elected in 2020) and Pascal Ory (historian and author born 1948, elected in 2020).

Out of them, Vargas Llosa is the oldest and so the first one to go I think but there's many other ones who are frailer (Nora, Carrère d'encaisse, Fernandez, De Broglie…). 

 

Also, while I'm at it, I red in the Dictionnaire de la Mort (which I talked about here recently) some interesting things about academicians. Apparently, French author and adventurer Louis Antoine de Bougainville (wiki) wanted to be elected at the Académie and plaid for his election to Charles Pinot Duclos (wiki) who was at the time the perpetual secretary of the Academie. While stating that he was really sick and that he won't have long to live, Duclos sassily answered back that "the academie doesn't provide the last sacrament". Those kind of quip are so funny to me. 

On the contrary, when Pierre Laujon (wiki) wanted to be elected in the Academie, he did the same thing as Bougainville, stating to Jacques Delille (wiki) that he was dying and Delille answered "Hey ! Gentlemen, we all know where he's going to, let him make it through the academie first". He thus was elected and died 4 years later. 

 

Anyway, a sad loss with the passing of De Obaldia, I was just seing ads on the subway for his new play about his centenary last week. Who will be the next one ? feel free to bet (I should have opened a sweepstake for academicians damn…)

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Yves Coopens who discovered Lucie, the « first » homo sapiens dead at 87. Was part of the Académie des Sciences. Sad loss as he was a respected and brilliant mind

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French academy of moral and politic sciences contains 55 people divided as follow

 

Philosophy section 

- Chantal Delsol (b. 1947) 

- Alain Besançon (b. 1932)

- Bernard Bourgeois (b. 1929)

- Olivier Houdé (b. 1963) 

- Daniel Handler (b. 1946)

- Claudine Tiercelin (b. 1952)

- Rémi Brague (b. 1947)

- Bernard Saint-Sernin (b. 1931) 

 

Sociology and moral section

- Luc Ravel (b. 1957)

- Pierre Brunel (b. 1939)

- Marianne Bastrid Bruguière (b. 1940)

- Jean François Mattei (b. 1943)

- Xavier Darcos (b. 1947)

- Haïm Korsia (b. 1963)

 

Public law and legislation section : 

- Yves Gaudemet (b. 1946)

- Bruno Cotte (b. 1945) 

- Serge Sur (b. 1944) 

- Bernard Stirn (b. 1952)

- Louis Vogel (b. 1954) 

- Gilbert Guillaume (b. 1930)

- François Terré (b. 1930) 

- Pierre Delvolvé (b. 1940)

 

Economy, Politic, Statistic and finance section : 

- Denis Kessler (b. 1952) 

- Michel Pébereau (b. 1942) 

- Pierre André Chiappori (b. 1955)

- Dominique Senequier (b. 1953) 

- Jean Claude Casanova (b. 1934) 

- Marcel Boiteux (b. 1922) 

- Yvon Gattaz (b. 1925) 

- Jean Tirole (b. 1953) 


History and Geography section 

- George Henri Soutou (b. 1943) 

- Jean Robert Pitte (b. 1949) 

- François d’Orcival (b. 1943)

- Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie (b. 1929) 

- Éric Roussel (b. 1951) 

- Alain Duhamel (b. 1940)

- Jean Tulard (b. 1933)

 

Général section

- Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc (b. 1938)

- André Vacheron (b. 1933) 

- Jean David Levitte (b. 1946) 

- Pierre Mazeaud (b. 1929)

- Gabriel de Broglie (b. 1931)

- Jean Claude Trichet (b. 1942) 

- Thierry de Montbrial (b. 1943) 

- Jacques de Larosière (b. 1929)

- Hervé Gaymard (b. 1960)

 

Foreigner associates

- King Charles III (b. 1948)

- Hassan of Jordanie (b. 1947)

- Stephen Breyer (b. 1938)

- Wolfgang Schwauble (b. 1942) 

- Ismaïl Kadaré (b. 1936) 

- Mario Mari (b. 1943) 

- Dóra Bakoyánni (b. 1954) 

- Juan Carlos Ier (b. 1938) 

- Jean Claude Juncker (b. 1954) 


Vacant places

- Benedict XVI (d. 2022) in foreigner associates 

- Javier Perez de Cuellar (d. 2020) in foreigner associates 

- Christian Poncelet (d. 2020) in general section

- Philippe Levillain (d. 2021) in history and geography 

- Jean Baechler (d. 2022) in moral and sociology 

- Mireille Delmas-Marty (d. 2022) in moral and sociology 

 

The oldest ones are Marcel Boiteux and Yvon Gattaz. 
 

Wonder who will be the next one to go.

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On 16/01/2023 at 19:35, Lafaucheuse said:

Denis Kessler (b. 1952

Dead at 71. Second breaking News from Le Monde today. Will there be a third ? 

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Hélène Carrère d’Encausse has died at 94 ! A terrible loss for the French National Academy which she was the president. A terrible loss for the French Language and a terrible loss for France.

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Avec la mort d'Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, c'est l'une des grandes pages de l'Académie qui se tourne. And now who will be the new "Secrétaire perpétuel"?

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On 06/08/2023 at 00:10, Fantomasss said:

Avec la mort d'Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, c'est l'une des grandes pages de l'Académie qui se tourne. And now who will be the new "Secrétaire perpétuel"?

Amin Maalouf is now the "Secrétaire perpétuel" of the Académie française, following the death of Hélène Carrère d'Encausse. He faced Jean Christophe Ruffin to earn the top job of the academy.

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On 16/01/2023 at 19:35, Lafaucheuse said:

Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie (b. 1929

Dead. Another seat empty. 

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Death of Leonard Gianadda, swiss mecen, and fellow in Academy of Fine Art since 2001. 

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