Situated at 16
rue Bonaparte in the
6th arrondissement of Paris, the
Académie nationale de médecine (
National Academy of Medicine) was created in 1820 by king
Louis XVIII at the urging of baron
Antoine Portal. At its inception, the institution was known as the
Académie royale de médecine (or
Royal Academy of Medicine). This academy was endowed with the legal status of two institutions which preceded it — the
Académie royale de chirurgie (or
Royal Academy of Surgery), which was created in 1731 and of the
Société royale de médecine (or
Royal Society of Medicine), which was created in 1776.