The Académie nationale de médecine is a French learned society situated at 16 Rue Bonaparte in 6th arrondissement, Paris. It 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. This academy was endowed with the legal status of two institutions which preceded it — Académie royale de chirurgie, which was created in 1731 and Société royale de médecine, which was created in 1776.