eloge

plural eloges

1. obsoleteAn expression of praise.
2. A statement or disquisition in praise of someone who has died.

   In a later éloge, Georges Cuvier called it, with pardonable exaggeration, ‘in some respects the last words of a dying Plato’.

   2008, Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder, HarperPress, published 2009, page 430

3. Specifically, the statement made by a new member of the French Academy about his predecessor.