An institutionThe Institute of France, created on 25 October 1795, is now under the responsibility of Chancellor Gabriel de Broglie, who was elected to the Academy of Ethics and Political Science in 1997, to the French Academy in 2001, and who became Chancellor of the Institute of France on 29 November 2005.
The Institute of France, Parliament of the Learned, is tasked to :
- Improve the arts and sciences in line with the principle of pluridisciplinarity.
- Manage the thousands of donations, legacies, and foundations that it has been entrusted with, so that it has the means to carry out its primary task.
The Institute brings together five Academies :
The French Academy (established in 1635)
The Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres (established in 1663)
The Academy of Sciences (established in 1666)
 The Academy of Fine Arts (established in 1816 when the Academy of Painting and Sculpture, established in 1648, the Academy of Music, established in 1669, and the Academy of Architecture, established in 1671, merged)
 The Academy of Ethics and Political Science (established in 1795, abolished in 1803, and re-established in 1832) “The Institute is a thing peculiar to France. Several countries have academies whose illustrious members or renowned works may rival ours. Yet, only France has an Institute where every endeavour of the human spirit is bound within a fasces, where the poet, philosopher, historian, critic, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, naturalist, economist, jurist, sculptor, painter and musician may call one another colleagues.”
Ernest Renan (1867)
The Institute also has Department for Teaching Aids & Actions and a Publications Department.
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