Renaudot Crater
Renaudot may refer to: * Eusèbe Renaudot (1646–1720), French theologian and expert on Eastern languages * Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1867–1962), French astronomer * Théophraste Renaudot (1586–1653), French physician, medical author, and founder of a weekly newspaper * Renaudot (crater), Martian impact crater * Prix Renaudot The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot () is a French literary award. History The prize was created in 1926 by ten art critics awaiting the results of deliberation of the jury of the Prix Goncourt. While not officially related to the ...

Eusèbe Renaudot
Eusèbe Renaudot (; 20 July 16461 September 1720) was a French theologian and Orientalist. Biography Renaudot was born in Paris, and brought up and educated for a career in the church. After being educated by the Jesuits, and joining the Oratorians in 1666, he was in poor health, left his order, and never took more than minor orders. Despite his interest in theology and his title of ''abbé'', much of his life was spent at the French court, where he attracted the notice of Colbert and was often employed in confidential affairs. He was a prominent supporter of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, in the controversies with Richard Simon, François Fénelon and the Jesuits. In later life his attitudes became Gallican and Jansenist. He became a member of the Académie française (1689), the Academy of Inscriptions (1691), and the Accademia della Crusca of Florence. Works The learning in Eastern languages which he acquired in his youth and maintained amid the distractions of court life did ...
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Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion
Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (née Renaudot) (31 May 1877 – 28 October 1962) was a French astronomer. She worked at the Camille Flammarion Observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France, and was General Secretary of the Société Astronomique de France. She published work in the changing surface features of Mars, the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, and observations of other planets, minor planets and variable stars and recorded astronomy-related activities and events in numerous articles. Family Born as Gabrielle Renaudot, her parents were Jules Renaudot, a sculptor, and Maria-Veronica Concetta Latini, who was Italian (d1900).Gotlieb, Marc, ''The Deaths of Henri Regnault'', 201p90/ref> Her brother was the artist Paul Renaudot. She married Camille Flammarion, who also was an accomplished astronomer. She was his second wife. Flammarion's first wife, Sylvie Petiaux-Hugo, died in 1919. Honors A crater on Mars, Renaudot, is named in her honor, and her first name was the basis ...
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Théophraste Renaudot
Théophraste Renaudot (; December 158625 October 1653) was a French physician, philanthropist, and journalist. Born in Loudun, Renaudot received a doctorate of medicine from the University of Montpellier in 1606. He returned to Loudon where he met Cardinal Richelieu and Père Joseph. In the 1610s, Richelieu became more powerful and in 1612 he summoned Renaudot to Paris, partly because of his medical reputation, but more because of his philanthropy. Renaudot, born a Protestant, converted to Catholicism. He became the physician and councillor to Louis XIII of France. As part of his duties, Renaudot was asked to organize a scheme of public assistance. Many difficulties were put in his way, however, and he therefore returned until 1624 to Poitou, where Richelieu made him "commissary general of the poor." In 1630, now back in Paris, Renaudot opened the , where prospective employers and employees could find each other. With the support of Richelieu, he established the first weekly news ...
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Renaudot (crater)
Renaudot may refer to: * Eusèbe Renaudot (1646–1720), French theologian and expert on Eastern languages * Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1867–1962), French astronomer * Théophraste Renaudot (1586–1653), French physician, medical author, and founder of a weekly newspaper * Renaudot (crater), Martian impact crater * Prix Renaudot The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot () is a French literary award. History The prize was created in 1926 by ten art critics awaiting the results of deliberation of the jury of the Prix Goncourt. While not officially related to the ...