Académie Royale de Danse

This article is about a former French dance institution. For the English institution founded in 1920, see Royal Academy of Dance.

The Académie Royale de Danse was a former dance academy founded by Letters Patent on the initiative of King Louis XIV of France in March 1661. It was the first dance institution established in the Western world.

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