page_title: Eugène Auguste Ernest Havet
hierarchical_section_title: Eugène Auguste Ernest Havet
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Ernest Havet de l'Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, (Photographie Eugène Pirou)
context_page_description: Eugène Auguste Ernest Havet, French scholar, was born in Paris. 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 Latin eloquence at the Collège de France.
  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, and Le Christianisme et ses origines, the chief thesis of which was that Christianity owed more to Greek philosophy than to the writings of the Hebrew prophets.
context_section_description: Eugène Auguste Ernest Havet (April 11, 1813 – December 21, 1889), French scholar, was born in Paris. 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 Latin eloquence at the Collège de France.
  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 Hebrew prophets.
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