Societe des Antiquaires de France

The Society des Antiquaries de France is a Parisian historical and archaeological society, founded in 1804 under the name of the Celtic Academy. It is now based at the Louvre, in the pavillon Mollien. The Academie celtique was founded by prefect Jacques Cambry, Jacques Antoine Dulaure and Jacques Le Brigant on 9 germinal Year XII (30 March 1804), with the goal of studying Gallic civilization and French history and archaeology. Cambry was its first president, until his death in 1807. In 1813 it changed its name to the Society des Antiquaries de France, after the Society of Antiquaries of London, and from 1814 to 1848 it changed again to the Society royale des antiquaries de France under the Bourbon Restoration. According to the regime in France, it was then called the Society imperial des antiquaries de France or Society national des antiquaries de France, but it re-assumed its present name in 1871, and has not changed it since.