eloge

noun3

1. •
   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
2. •
   Specifically, the statement made by a new member of the French Academy about his predecessor.
3. •
   (no longer used) An expression of praise.