The academic National company of Cherbourg (or Academy of Cherbourg ) is a Learned society French.

History

The academic Company of Cherbourg is created the January 14th 1755 with Cherbourg by Pierre Anquetil, priest, Jean-François Delaville, doctor, Thomas Groult, prosecutor of Admiralty, Neighbor-The-Hougue, professor of hydrography, Gilles-Pierre Avoyne de Chantereyne, receiver of Admiralty, and Pierre Fréret, sculptor.

It is one of the manifestations of the sociability of the local “elites” of the time, which liked to meet to share their knowledge. According to Robert Lerouvillois, the founders would have been influenced by the figure of the abbot of Saint-Pierre, native academician of the Val of Saire, and die in 1743.

The academy was interested particularly in the local Histoire and the Archéologie (studies of the Pouquelées Stones of Vauville since 1755 for example). Its currency was “Religion and honor”

Fallen in sleep in 1783, it is reconstituted in 1807.

It receives in particular Alexis de Tocqueville in 1855 for a study on the Paupérisme, and Emmanuel Liais which gives, in 1849, a communication on the mutual disturbances of the Planet S and the oscillations of the Baromètre.

The academic Company irregularly publishes Mémoires gathering some of the communications made by its members. It is currently chaired by Claude Coutanceau.

Denominations

• 1755 - 1793; 1807 - 1833: Academic company of Cherbourg
• 1833 - 1847: Academic Royal company of Cherbourg
• 1848 - 1855: Academic national company of Cherbourg
• 1856 - 1867: Academic Imperial company of Cherbourg
• Since 1871: Academic national company of Cherbourg

Members

In addition to its founders, the academic Company of Cherbourg counted among its members the governor of Cherbourg, Charles François Dumouriez, the historian Augustin Maresquier, the naturalist Jacques-François Dicquemare, the art critic and patron Thomas Henry, Alfred of Those, the abbot of Beauvais, the admiral of Aboville, the mayors of Cherbourg Augustin Asselin and Nicolas Christmas-Agnes, the mayor of Tourlaville and the Mirror factory, Henri Menut, the lawyer Adrien Legrin (1852-1938), Gustave Féron (1851-1913), Georges Rouxel, the writer Jean Fleury, the Captain and exploring Henri Jouan, Emile the Singer of Pontaumont, the Leroux abbots and Bernard Jacqueline, and currently Hugues Plaideux, Roger-Jean Barbenchon.

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