HAVET

havet, eugene auguste ernest (1813-1889), french scholar, was born in paris on the 11th of april 1813. educated at the lycee saint-louis and the ecole normale, he was for many years before his death on the 21st of december 1889 professor of latin eloquence at the college de france. his two capital works were a commentary on the works of pascal, _pensees de pascal publiees dans leur texte authentique avec un commentaire suivi_ (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. his elder son, pierre antoine louis havet (b. 1849), was professor of latin philology at the college de france and a member of the institute. the younger, julien, is separately noticed.