HUET, PIERRE DANIEL (1630-1721). A French Roman Catholic scholar. He was born at Caen, February 8, 1630, and was educated in the Jesuit School there. He was a zealous fol lower of Descartes and a pupil of Bochart. and accompanied the latter on his visit to Stock holm in 1652. On his return to Caen he gave himself up entirely to study; and as a pre liminary to his translation of the text of Origen, he published his De Interpretatione (1661), but it was only at the end of fifteen years' study that he published his edition of Origen's Com menta-ria in Saeram Seripturam (1668). In 1670 he was summoned to Paris to take part with Bossuet in the education of the dauphin. In 1679 he published his Demonstratio Drungeliea. lle had an active part, moreover, in the Dolphin edition of the classics. In 1674 he was elected a member of the French Academy. In 1676 he entered into holy orders; and in 1678 was named abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Aulnay, from which place is named his work, Ainetame Qua's / iones de Concordia. Rationis et Fidel (1690).
In 1691 he published in Latin a work on The Situation of Paradise (Eng. trans. 1694) ; an other in 1693 On the Voyages of Solomon, which were followed later by his work in classical geog raphy, History of the Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients, in French (1716; Eng. trans. 1717). In 1685 he was named Bishop of Sois sons, a dignity, however. on which lie never en tered, being transferred to the See of Avranches in 1692. Huet (lied in Paris .January 26, 1721. His works were published in a collected form in 1712, and a volume of lluetiana appeared in 1722. For his life, consult Trochon (Paris, 1877), and his autobiography (trans., London, 1820).