Eugène Auguste Ernest Havet (April 11, 1813 – December 21, 1889), French scholar, was born in

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. He was the father of Pierre Antoine Louis Havet and Julien Havet. Educated at the Lycée Saint-Louis and the Ecole Normale, he was for many years before his death professor of

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eloquence at the

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. His two capital works were a commentary on the works of Pascal, ''Pensées de Pascal, publiées dans le texte authentique, avec un commentaire suivi et une étude littéraire'' (1852; 2nd ed. 2 vols., 1881), and ''Le Christianisme et ses origines'' (4 vols., 1871–1884), the chief thesis of which was that Christianity owed more to Greek philosophy than to the writings of the

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prophets.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Havet, Eugene Auguste Ernest 1813 births 1889 deaths École Normale Supérieure alumni Academic staff of the Collège de France