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         The Akademeia, a park and gymnasium located near Athens, was named in honor of the legendary hero Akademos. It was there that Plato established his school, which is, in name at least, the grandfather of all modern academies. English academy was firs used in the fifteenth century simply to refer to Plato's school. But in Italian, and late in French, the descendants of Greek Akademeia were losing their status as no more than proper nouns and developing moe general senses. A French acadimie may be any school above the elementary level, or it may be a learned society (the most famous being l'Academie francaise 'the French Academy', which has, since it was established in 1634, been trying heroically to preserve the French language from corruption). These later senses of academy entered English from French.