poned to the 1th Vendemiare, in the rith 
year; the Clafs. frongly recommending to 
the candidates to aaply themfelves with par-~ 
ticular attention to the fabrication. 
'This double prize, of the value of two gold 
kilograms ‘about’ 6800 livres) will be be- 
ftowed in the meeting of the 15th Vende- 
Miaire, in the zith sages Papers will not 
ke received after the rf of Meilidor, in the 
zoth year, 
CLASS OF LITERATURE AND FINE ARTS, 
Grammatical Prize. 
Eloge of Cafar Cheneau Dumarfais. 
The prize to bea gold medal, weighing five 
hecto-grammesj and will be determined at the 
public fitting, on the 15th Vendemiare, ‘in 
the 11th year of the Republic. ‘The papers 
muft be delivered before the 1f of Meffidor. 
The Members and Affociates of the Infti- 
tution, alone, are excluded from being can- 
didates. 
Prize in Antiquities: 
‘The fame Clafs propofed, in the year 8, as 
a fubjeét for a prize: 
What are the Srudies that pe and the know- 
ledge which charaGterizes, the antiquary? What 
are the advantages arifing to | Meera order from 
their fudies. 
Confdering the i las of the fubje, 
the Clafs has judged proper to extend the 
time for delivering the Menzoirs, to the 15th 
Vendemiaise, in the 11th year, 
The prize is a gold medal, of the weight of 
five hecto-grammes, and wil be determined 
in the public atting of the 1sth Nivofe fol- 
lowing——Members and Affociates of the Infti- 
tute are alone excluded as candidates. 
Proceedings of Lzarned Societies. 
General conditions, with which candidates 
for prizes mut comply, on whatever fubject 
they treat. 
No Memoir fent in muft have the name of 
the author, but only a fentence or device ; the 
candidate may, if ke pleafes, annex to or ac- 
company in with a note, fealed, which, be- 
fides the device or fentence, thall centain his 
mame and addreis. ‘This note fhall not be 
opened, unleis the Memoirs thall obteia the 
prize. 
The Memoirs muft be fent free to th. [a- 
fritute, or they miay be addreil fed to one of 
the Secretaries of the proper Clafs, at Paris. 
In the latter cafe the Secretary will give a re- 
ccipt. 
‘fhe candidates are informed that the Infti- 
tute cannot return either the memoirs, draw- 
ings, or machines which fhall be ient ia for 
the prizes: but the authors fhall always have 
the privilege of copying the memoirs or draw~ 
ing 3 or they may have the machines, on de- 
livering drawings of them, ~~ “ 
The Committee of the Treafury of the In- 
flitute will deliver the golden medals to the 
perfon who fhall bring a certificate ; and 
when there fhall be no certificate, they will 
be delivered only to the author himofelf, or 
the bearer of his procuration. | 
[Nov, ¢ 
Prize determined at the Public Sitting, tbe 
15th Vendemiare, in the 10th year. 
"In the Public Sitting of the 15th vehaa® 
milaire, of the oth year, the Clafs of Litera- 
ture and Fine Atts propofed, as the fubjedts of. 
the prize of Poetry,’ 
Lhe Foundation of the Republic 5 an ode,” 
poem, difcourfe inverfe, or epiftle. — 
Twelve pieces, in verfe, have been fent in. © 
The Clafs decreed the prize ‘to the Ode 
marked No. I. with this motto, © Fam nova 
‘ progenies ccelo demittitur alto,’ the author of} 
which is Citizéa Maffon, author of the Hel-_ 
vetians, Secretary-general of the Department 
of the Raine and Mofelle. 
Names of the riifis who, in the Fudement.of- 
the Natanal Infiitute of Science and Aris, have 
gained the grand Prizes for Painting, Sculp- 
ture and Architefure, of the Year 9: 
7 
PAINTING. o 
The fabje& was The arrival. of the Am-- 
baffadors of Agamemnon at the Tent» :of: 
Achilles, fent by that Prince to appeafe the. 
Anger of the Son of Peleus.”?., 
This embaffy was compofed of Phenix, the 
friend of Jupiter, of the great Ajax, and the 
divine Uly fies. ‘Lhey arrive at the quarters 
of the “Theflalians and tent of Achilles, 
who is amufing himfelf by playing. ‘on 4 lyrey 
of admirable workmanhhip, and which he had 
‘taken when he plundered the city of Aetion 5 
he was finging the ‘glotious exploits of the: 
heroes. Patroclus, alone, fat oppofite to him: 
in Sear ha lone waiting until he had) 
ceafed finging: Ulyffes entered firft 5. the. 
other auebaltacidics refpe@fully wait a few 
fteps diftant from the fon of the gods, Achilles, 
furprized at the vit, xifes precipitately, his. 
lyre ftill in his hands; Patroclus, who foom 
perceived them, rifes.alfo. Achilles gives. 
them a very prod regephige and {peaks to them” 
in thefe terms: ‘* Be welcome; you are Core 
tainly my frie att ; and that convinces ‘ne 
that the Greeks muft be prefied by extreme 
neceffity, fince they tend the greateft perfon= 
ages of the army, and thofe whom Deh cete 
the moft.” 
In concluding thefe words, he caufes chem - 
to advance into the tent. 
Firft prize, to jona Auguftin lngres, har 
at Montauban, aged 20 years, a pupil of Giti-, 
zen David. Y 
Second prize, Jules Antony Vauthier, born, 
at Paris, aged 27 years, a pupil of Citizen 
Regnault. 
i 
SCULPTURE. 
The fubjeé : ‘©Gracchus quitting his’ 
Houfe to repair to the publi Place: Lisinia,. 
his Spoufe; bathed in Teare, throws’ herfelf 
on her Knees, holding her Child, and endea-, 
vours to ftop him. Gracchus gently with- 
draws himfelf from her arms, and walks, in. 
profound filence, 1urtounded by his friends. 
She follows, endeavouring to hold him by 
his Fone, falls down on the payement, and 
remains there motionlefs,” : 
I, Firk 
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