The Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique (French pronunciation: [akademi ʁwajal də lɑ̃ɡ e də liteʁatyʁ fʁɑ̃sɛz də bɛlʒik], 'Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium') or ARLLFB is a Belgian institution which brings together personalities who, through their works, writings, lectures or speeches, have contributed most eminently to the illustration of the French language, either by studying its origins and its evolution, or by publishing works of imagination or criticism.
[4] It should not be confused with the Royal Academy of Belgium, the "Teresian", founded in 1772 by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria.
There are three founding principles: The initial nucleus of the academy named ten writers: Henri Carton de Wiart, Georges Eekhoud, Iwan Gilkin, Albert Giraud, Hubert Krains, Maurice Maeterlinck, Albert Mockel, fr:Fernand Séverin, Paul Spaak, fr:Gustave Vanzype.
[6] In the year following creation, the newly invited members included Anna de Noailles, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Swiss novelist fr:Benjamin Vallotton and the French grammarian Ferdinand Brunot.
From its foundation to the present day, the academy has counted one hundred and twenty-four Belgian members, of whom eleven were women, and forty-nine foreign members from either France, Switzerland, Italy, the United States, Romania, Quebec, Great Britain, China, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Israel, The Netherlands, Peru or Sweden.