The Prix Volney (English: Volney Medal) is awarded by the Institute of France after proposition by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres to a work of comparative philology.
The prize was founded in 1822 in memory of count Volney and was originally a gold medal worth 1,200 francs.
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