Pierre Daniel Huet
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Pierre Daniel Huet was a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics, founder of the Académie de Physique in Caen and Bishop of Soissons from 1685 to 1689 and afterwards of Avranches.
Engraved portrait of Pierre Daniel Huet by Gérard Edelinck after Nicolas de Largillière, 1686
Censura philosophiae Cartesianae, 1723
Histoire du commerce, 1763.
Jean Chapelain
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Jean Chapelain was a French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle, best known for his role as an organizer and founding member of the Académie française. Chapelain acquired considerable prestige as
Pierre Daniel Huet
…began to receive royal funding and direction from the royal representative in Normandy, Guy Chamillart. In Paris he entered into close relations with Jean Chapelain. During the famous "dispute of Ancients and Moderns", Huet took the side of the Ancients against Charles Perrault and Jean Desmarets. Among his friends…
An anonymous portrait of Chapelain