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Institut de France
Created in 1795, the Institut de France is the oldest and most prestigious cultural institution in France. It acts as a funding body, managing donations and testamentary gifts.
For over two centuries, the Institut has symbolized the excellence of French intellectual and scientific thought throughout the world. Its work is made possible through generous sponsorship by individuals as well as corporations, both at the national and international level. Yves Rocher thus benefits from this important source of academic knowledge and expertise to uphold the company’s commitment of respecting nature, well-being and women’s beauty, as it has done for the past 50 years.
| "The Institut in France is one of a kind. Many countries have academies to rival ours for members and the importance of their work, however only France has an Institut where all facets of the human intellect are linked in one significant cluster, where poets, philosophers, historians, critics, mathematicians, physicists, botanists, economists, judicators, sculptors, painters, musicians are colleagues." Ernest Renan (1867) |
