Académie nationale de médecine

Situated at 16 Rue Bonaparte in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the Académie nationale de médecine (National Academy of Medicine) was created in 1820[1] by King Louis XVIII at the urging of baron Antoine Portal.

The office was then relocated to a vaulted hall of the Hospital of Charity on rue Saint Pierre.

Their current facility on Rue Bonaparte was designed by the French architect Justin Rochet, and was constructed between 1899 and 1902.

The following provides a timeline for the various names taken on by the institution: The edict of 1820 (formally known as Ordonnance de 1820) was signed by Louis XVIII.

The edict issued the following missions to the Académie Royale de Médecine: " This Academy is especially instituted to respond to all requests coming from the government on all subjects that may concern public health, and mainly on epidemics, diseases specific to a country, epizooties, diverse fields of legal medicine, propagation of antivariolic vaccination, appraisal of new and secret, internal as well as external, medications, natural or man-made mineral waters, etc..." "The Academy will moreover take charge of the works of the Companie royale de médecine and the Académie Royale de chirurgie in all fields of study or research which can contribute to the improvement of the art of healing."