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Also Known As Académie Royale • Académie Royale d’Architecture • École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts • French Academy • National School of Fine Arts
Date 1671 - present
Notable Alumni Edgar Degas • Pierre-Auguste Renoir • Georges Seurat • Ellsworth Kelly • Manolo Blahnik • Dominique Perrault • Augustus Saint-Gaudens • David Davidovich Burlyuk • Jean Nouvel • Richard Morris Hunt • Christian de Portzamparc • Louise Bourgeois • Charles Follen McKim • Robert Henri • Raoul Dufy • Roger de La Fresnaye • Hubert de Givenchy • Louis Majorelle • Bernard Maybeck • Raymond M. Hood
Related People Hippolyte Taine • Jean-Léon Gérôme

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