[Nicolas Lémery and his sons Louis and Jacques at the Académie Royale des Sciences (1s Part)]

This first part of our study of the activities of Nicolas Lémery and his sons Louis and Jacques at the Académie Royale des Sciences begins with a description of the structure of the Académie as a result of its reformation in 1699, with an emphasis on the roles of its members as defined in its règlement. Then we concentrate on how Nicolas Lémery performed his duties at the Académie beginning from 1699 until his illness and death in 1715. Nicolas's most important contributions were his study on antimony, published as a treatise, and other memoirs on different subjects, mainly related to chemistry, which was the field in which he excelled and has remained famous. This first part is going to be followed by two parts where the activities of Nicolas's sons Louis and Jacques at the Académie are examined in a similar way.