'Journal of the Learned'), established by Denis de Sallo, is the earliest academic journal published in Europe.

[3] The 18th-century French physician and encyclopédiste Louis-Anne La Virotte (1725–1759) was introduced to the journal through the protection of chancellor Henri François d'Aguesseau.

Its content originally included obituaries of famous men, church history, scientific findings, and legal reports.

From then on, the Journal des savants was published by the National Imprimery under the patronage of the Institut de France.

[citation needed] A self-assured misreading of Japanese sources in an 1817 article by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat[10] led to the name of the Bonin Islands.