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See also: bishop of See also: Avranches, 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 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, 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 Christina to her See also: court at See also: Stockholm, took his friend See also: Huet with him
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This 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 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 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: Charles
See also: Perrault and See also: Desmarets
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Among his See also: friends at this See also: period were Conrart and See also: Pellisson
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His taste for See also: mathematics led him to the study of astronomy
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He next turned his See also: attention to anatomy, and, being himself shortsighted, devoted his inquiries mainly to the question of vision and the formation of the See also: eye
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In this pursuit he made more than 800 dissections . He then learned all that was then to be learned in chemistry, and wrote a Latin poem onSee 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 tale called Diane de 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 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 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: king gave him the abbey of Aulnay, where he wrote
See also: hit Questiones Aletuanae (Caen, 2690), his Censura philosophiae Cartesianae (Paris, 1689), his Nouveau memoire pour servir d l'histoire du Cartesianisme (1692), and his discussion with Boileau on the See also: Sublime
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In 1685 he was made bishop of See also: Soissons, but after waiting for See also: installation for four years he took the bishopric of Avranches instead
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He exchanged the cares of his bishopric for what he thought would be the easier chair of the Abbey of Fontenay, but there he was vexed with continual See also: law-suits
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At length he retired to the See also: Jesuits' See also: House in the Rue See also: Saint See also: Antoine at Paris, where he died in 1721
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His See also: great library
and See also: manuscripts, after being bequeathed to the Jesuits, were bought by the king for the royal library
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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
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Another See also: posthumous work was his Traite philosophique de la faiblesse de l'esprit humain (Amsterdam, 1723)
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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
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See de Gournay, See also: Hue', eveque d'Avranches, sa See also: vie et ses ouvrages
(Paris, 1854)
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