![Franco-Belgian writer Francois Weyergans poses with his sword while wearing the uniform of a black jacket embroidered in green laurel leaves after the ceremony where his was inducted into the Academie Francaise ( Franco-Belgian writer Francois Weyergans poses with his sword while wearing the uniform of a black jacket embroidered in green laurel leaves after the ceremony where his was inducted into the Academie Francaise (](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2CXKWNW/franco-belgian-writer-francois-weyergans-poses-with-his-sword-while-wearing-the-uniform-of-a-black-jacket-embroidered-in-green-laurel-leaves-after-the-ceremony-where-his-was-inducted-into-the-academie-francaise-french-academy-as-an-immortels-in-paris-june-16-2011-reutersphilippe-wojazer-france-tags-society-2CXKWNW.jpg)
Franco-Belgian writer Francois Weyergans poses with his sword while wearing the uniform of a black jacket embroidered in green laurel leaves after the ceremony where his was inducted into the Academie Francaise (
The Burgon Society on Twitter: "The black cape for Académie Française members was introduced in 1892. Poet and philosopher Paul Valéry is looking rather dapper in his https://t.co/KegRrtQ0wP" / Twitter
![The Burgon Society on Twitter: "L'habit vert of an Académicien from the 1830s. We are stanning this and regret giving up French after GCSE https://t.co/Lom2HSGRGS" / Twitter The Burgon Society on Twitter: "L'habit vert of an Académicien from the 1830s. We are stanning this and regret giving up French after GCSE https://t.co/Lom2HSGRGS" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoTmJbOW4AAmX1q.jpg)