Royal ACADEMY of Dancing was established by the King of France in 1661. It consists of thirteen able dancing-masters,
masters, who meet once a-month; and two of the academists teach by turns the art of dancing, ancient and modern.
The French have also academies in most of their great cities, as, the Academy of Sciences at Montpellier, that of the Lanternists at Thoulouse; besides others at Nismes, Arles, Angiers, Lyons, Caen in Normandy, &c.; and the Chirurgical Academy at Paris is a modern institution for the general improvement of the art, and to compile and publish the ancient and modern history of it.