The Académie Française was created by Cardinal Richelieu under Louis XIII on January 29, 1635; a council for matters related to the French language and literature. The first Dictionnaire de l'Académie rançaise was published in 1694 with 18,000 terms. The most recent complete edition, the 8th, was finished in 1935 and contains 35,000 words.
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