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See also:PIERRE See also:DANIEL See also:HUET (1630-1721)
, See also:bishop of See also:Avranches, See also:French See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Caen in 163o
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He was educated at the Jesuit school of Caen, and also received lessons from the See also:Protestant pastor, See also:Samuel See also:Bochart
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At the See also:age of twenty he was recognized as one of the most promising scholars of the See also:time
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He went in 1651 to See also:Paris, where he formed a friendship with See also:Gabriel See also:Naude, See also:conservator of the See also:Mazarin library
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In the following See also:year Samuel Bochart, being invited by See also:Queen See also:Christina to her See also:court at See also:Stockholm, took his friend See also:Huet with him
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This See also:journey, in which he saw See also:Leiden, See also:Amsterdam and See also:Copenhagen, as well as Stockholm, resulted chiefly in the See also:discovery, in the See also:Swedish royal library, of some fragments of See also:Origen's Commentary on St See also:Matthew, which gave Huet the See also:idea of editing Origen, a task he completed in 1668
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He eventually quarrelled with his friend Bochart, who accused him of having suppressed a See also:line in Origen in the Eucharistic controversy
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In Paris he entered into See also:close relations with See also:Chapelain
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During the famous dispute of Ancients and Moderns Huet took the See also:side of the Ancients against See also:
In this pursuit he made more than 800 dissections
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He then learned all that was then to be learned in See also:chemistry, and wrote a Latin poem on See also:salt
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All this time he was no See also:mere See also:book-See also:worm or recluse, but was haunting the salons of Mlle de See also:Scudery and the studios of painters; nor did his scientific researches interfere with his classical studies, for during this time he was discussing with Bochart the origin of certain medals, and was learning See also:Syriac and Arabic under the Jesuit Parvilliers
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He also translated the pastorals of See also:Longus, wrote a See also:tale called Diane de See also:Castro, and defended, in a See also:treatise on the origin of See also:romance, the See also:reading of fiction
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On being appointed assistant See also:tutor to the Dauphin in 167o, he edited with the assistance of See also:Anne Lefevre, afterwards Madame See also:Dacier, the well-known edition of the Delphin See also:Classics
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This See also:series was a comprehensive edition of the Latin classics in about sixty volumes, and each See also:work was accompanied by a Latin commentary, ordo verborum, and verbal See also:index
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The See also:original volumes have each an See also:engraving of See also:Arion and the See also:Dolphin, and the appropriate inscription in usum serenissimi Delphin
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Huet was admitted to the See also:Academy in 1674
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He issued one of his greatest See also:works, the Demonstratio evangelica, in 1679
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He took See also:holy orders in 1676, and two years later the See also: At length he retired to the See also:Jesuits' See also:House in the See also:Rue See also:Saint See also:Antoine at Paris, where he died in 1721 . His See also:great library and See also:manuscripts, after being bequeathed to the Jesuits, were bought by the king for the royal library . In the Huetiana (1722) of the See also:abbe d'Olivet will be found material for arriving at an idea of his prodigious labours, exact memory and wide scholarship . Another See also:posthumous work was his Traite philosophique de la faiblesse de l'esprit humain (Amsterdam, 1723) . His autobiography, found in his Commentarius de See also:rebus ad eum pertinentibus (Paris, 1718), has been translated into French and into See also:English . See de Gournay, See also:Hue', eveque d'Avranches, sa See also:vie et ses ouvrages (Paris, 1854) . |
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