Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Academie royale

Academie royale. (F.) An academy of music instituted in the year 1669, at Paris; by the Sieur Perrin, under a patent granted by Louie XIV., for the public performance of musical dramas, but which patent Louis soon after revoked, ordering another to be made out in favor of Lulli, who was judged more capable of conducting the design.