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2023réf. x-3031135040Springer Nature 2023. Hardcover. New. 2nd com edition. 2219 pages. 10.00x7.01x1.93 inches. Springer Nature hardcover
1899réf. 36451899 Paris, Pelletan, 1899. In-4: 21 x 27 cm, 4 ff., 40-[1] pp. Première édition séparée du texte et première édition illustrée. Ouvrage richement illustré de 22 compositions de Bellery-Desfontaines (1867-1910)gravées par Eugène Fromet (1844-1926) et tirées en deux tons. Édition limitée à 430 exemplaires sur papier vélin. Celui-ci, un des 400 numérotés en chiffre arabes (no. 393). Reliure en veau blond, dos lisse à décor de méandes dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin lavallière, plats encadrés d'une roulette à méandres bordée de deux filets dorés, doubles filets sur les coupes, et cinq filets pour les encadrements intérieurs. Doubles gardes de papier marbré. Ex-libris: A. de Siqueira, gravé par F. J. Junod. Dos légèrement frotté, frottements dus à la délicatesse du cuir, beau papier et gravures très fraîches. Elégant exemplaire.
1859réf. Renan-Job-1-1Édition originale. In-8, pleine percaline verte, titre doré sur pièce de titre brune, rehaussée de liserés doré. Couverture conservée. 200pp. CALMAN LÉVY. PARIS. Dos conserver .Très bon état.
2006réf. Q-078176081XLWW 2006-09-22. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! LWW hardcover
1901réf. 17251Avec Préface des Souvenirs d'Enfance et de Jeunesse. Vingt-sept Eaux-fortes originales de Ed. Rudaux.Édition tirée à 300 exemplaires. Celui-ci (N°112) un des 150 exemplaires de grand choix sur Japon.Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, L. Carteret et Cie. Successeurs 1901. xxxiv (préface) et 71 pages. Relié in fine Spécimen de l'édition avec 2 illustrations supplémentaires.Reliure demi-maroquin bleu à coins signée Stroobants. Dos à nerfs orné de caissons filetés et de fleurons dorés. Filets dorés bordant les plats. Tête dorée sur témoins, non rogné. Couverture et dos ornés de fleurs, conservés. Signet. Pas de rousseur. Parfait état. Format in-8°(23x16).
1886réf. 139208Hachette 1886 In-folio, demiveau blond, dos lisse, titre en long à froid, 30 ff. n.ch., 8 planches précédées de serpentes légendées et 16 lettrines & 12 culs-de-lampes. Un des 50 sur Japon n22 enrichi d’une aquarelle originale de l’artiste.
1887réf. 951899Paris: Calman Lévy éditeur 1887. leather_bound. Sehr gut. 3 1 weiße V 1 weiße 412 Seiten. Privater Ganzleder Handeinband mit Goldprägung und dreiseitigem Goldschnitt. Octavo. 217 x 133 mm Vorderdeckel kaum merklich berieben oberes Kapital minimal bestoßen. Innen durchgehend papierbedingt stockfleckig. Schöner äußerst dekorativer Meistereinband. Erste Ausgabe. Mit seiner wichtigen Rede vom 11. März 1882 in der Sorbonne: Qu'est-ce qu'une nation Was ist eine Nation Seiten 277-310 und streitbaren Texten zu Judentum und Islam. - "Ernest Renan geb. 27. Februar 1823 in Tréguier Côtes-d'Armor; gest. 2. Oktober 1892 in Paris war ein französischer Schriftsteller Historiker Archäologe Religionswissenschaftler und Orientalist und Mitglied der Académie française." Wikipedia. Handgefertigter olivbrauner Maroquinband 223 x 143 x 33 mm mit fünf erhabenen Bünden auf dem Rücken auf zweitem Feld Verfasser und Titel am Fuß das Jahr die anderen mit reicher fleuraler Vergoldung kleinen Kreisen Sternen und Randlinien. Die Deckel mit dreifachem Randrahmen aus Linienvergoldung; Stehkantenvergoldung reiche Innenkantenvergoldung dreifarbige handgestochene Kapitale; Goldschnitt; Vorsätze aus Kammarmorpapier. Mit Buchbinderstempel signiert auf dem vorderen Ledereinschlag unten: Riviere & Son. Inhalt des Buches: Préface; Discours de réception à l'Académie française 3 avril 1871; Lettre à un ami d'Allemagne Journal des Débats 16 avril 1879; Réponse au discours de réception de M. Pasteur 27 avril 1882; Réponse au discours de réception de M. Cherbuliez 25 mai 1882; Réponse au discours de réceptionde M. de Lesseps 23 avril 1885; Rapport sur les prix de vertu lu dans la séance publique annuelle de l'Académie Française le 4 août 1881; Discours prononcé le 7 août 1883 à la distribution des prix du lycée Louis-le-Grand; Discours prononcé à Tréguier le 2 août 1884; Discours prononcé à Quiraper le 17 août 1885; Discours à la conférence Scientia Banquet en l'honneur de M. Berthelot 26 novembre 1885; Discours à l'Association des étudiants le 15 mai 1886; Adieu à Tourguéneff prononcé à la gare du chemin de fer du Nord le 1er octobre 1883; Discours prononcé au Collège de France pour l'inauguration du médaillon de MM. Michelet Quinet Mickiewicz le 13 avril 1884; Discours prononcé aux funérailles de M. Stanislas Guyard professeur au Collège de France le 9 septembre 1884; Discours prononcé au nom de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres aux funérailles de M. Yillcmain le 10 mai 1870; Qu'est-ce qu'une nation Conférence faite en Sorbonne le il mars 1882; Identité originelle et séparation graduelle du judaïsme et du christianisme Conférence faite à la Société des études juives le 26 mai 1883; Le Judaïsme comme race et comme religion Conférence faite au cercle Saint-Simon le 27 janvier 1883; L'Islamisme et la science Conférence faite à la Sorbonne le 29 mars 1883; Appendice à la précédente conférence. First edition. Contemporary olive morocco spine with five raised bands panelled and lettered in gilt richly gilt with gilt fleural tools and lines boards with gilt line panels. All edges gilt marbled endleaves. Bound by Riviere & Son and signed on lower turn-in. Foxed due to quality of paper. A very decorative binding. Robert Riviere 30 Juni 1808 London - 12 April 1882 London was an English bookbinder of Huguenot descent. Relié par Riviere & Son. - RFM. - Weitere Bilder auf Anfrage oder auf unserer Homepage. Wegen Urlaub kann Ihre Bestellung / Anfrage erst nach dem 12.10.2026 bearbeitet werden. - Because of holidays your order / question can be handled only after 10/12/2026. Calman Lévy, éditeur hardcover
1891réf. DOUGHTYC015021Imprimerie Nationale Paris. 1891. First edition. Quarto. 308 pages. Six-page Introduction "Documents �pigraphiques recueillis dans le Nord de l'Arabie par M. Charles Doughty" by Ernest Renan. Original blue wrappers printed label on spine.Contains "Note de. M. Doughty sur son Voyage" which despite the French title is in English 29 pages; also "Transcription et Traduction des Inscriptions Nabat�ennes de Meda�n-Salih in French and Hebrew 18 pages "Transcription des Notes contenues dans les Planches" in English 9 pages. 57 plates these being facsimiles of notes and drawings of rubbings which Doughty made from carved rock inscriptions maps and drawings 9 folding photogravures of inscriptions. The reason this was published in France was that Doughty had tried without success to sell the Nabatean inscriptions he had collected to the British Museum and the Royal Geographical Society. Meanwhile the French philologist Ernest Renan was in the process of preparing a work on Semitic inscriptions for the Academie des Inscriptions and offered Doughty the opportunity of publication. Renan later deciphered these using Doughty's transcriptions. A number of the plates in this book which are of superb quality were used for later editions of Arabia Deserta. The rest of the volume is devoted to E. Am�lineau's "Notice sur le Papyrus Gnostique Bruce".Wrappers chipped and torn at edges. Spine cracked and discoloured. Apart from minor water-staining to the lower margins of four maps internally a bright and clean copy. Very good. Very scarce. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris. unknown
1892réf. 8846Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1892. In-8 (238 x 160 mm), (3) ff. : blanc, faux-titre, titre, XXXIV-446-(2) pp. Reliure d'époque demi-maroquin à coins, dos à faux-nerfs orné de caissons dorés, tranche sup. dorée, encadrement à double filet doré aux plats première de couverture conservée, première de couverture empoussiérée, 2 coins légèrement frottés, reliure à toutes marges, cachet de relieur, reliure signée "L. Pouillet" (Louis Pouillet). Tirage à 50 exemplaires sur papier de Hollande crème, tous numérotés, N° 2. Très bel exemplaire. Édition originale.
1864réf. 4379London United Kingdom: Trübner & Co. 1864. hardcover. Very Good. N/A. Publication: London Trübner & Co 1864 Formatting: 8vo pp. xii 311. Condition Report: Very Good. The original dark green publisher's cloth remains tight square and structurally sound which is highly desirable for a mid-19th-century volume. The blind-stamped borders and panelling to the boards retain excellent crispness. Wear is primarily confined to minor rubbing and bumping at the extremities alongside mild fraying to the top and bottom edges of the spine. Crucially the gilt lettering on the spine remains bright and unoxidised. The text block is firm; the page edges exhibit standard age-toning and faint darkening but internally the leaves remain supple clean and highly legible showing only mild occasional foxing typical of the era's paper stock. The volume is currently protected in a removable clear mylar sleeve. Catalogue Note: True first English translation of Ernest Renan's monumental and deeply controversial La Vie de Jésus. Originally published in France in 1863 this English edition was quickly brought to market in 1864 by Trübner & Co. of London in conjunction with M. Lévy Frères of Paris with the physical printing executed by J. Hamer of Leeds. The volume is entirely unillustrated relying instead on Renan's evocative prose. It features the printed dedication to Renan's sister Henriette composed at Ghazir where the siblings lived and traveled while he drafted the initial manuscript. First English editions in their original unrestored publisher's cloth are becoming increasingly scarce on the open market particularly when free of heavy institutional markings or significant structural damage. Ernest Renan's The Life of Jesus is a watershed text in the history of biblical scholarship and European literature. Stripping away the miraculous and the divine Renan approaches Jesus of Nazareth not as the Son of God but as an unparalleled historical figure a charismatic radical Galilean preacher whose moral philosophy fundamentally altered the course of human history. Written with the lyrical beauty of a romantic novelist and the rigorous scrutiny of a pioneering philologist this seminal work shocked the 19th-century religious establishment and forever shifted the paradigm of how modern society interacts with the origins of Christianity. Trübner & Co. hardcover
1883réf. 936Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1883 ; grand in-8 de [2] ff., xxiii-411 pp., [1] f., 1 f. bl., demi-maroquin brun à coins, dos à nerfs orné de décors géométriques, tête dorée, non rogné, couverture et dos (V. Champs).
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1895réf. 75069Reliure plein maroquin grenat. Dos à nerfs. Belle frise à froid de personnages et animaux en encadrement des plats. Doublures de maroquin chocolat décorées de cinq filets à froid en encadrement et fleurons à froid en écoinçons. Gardes de soie. Couverture et dos conservés. Reliure signée GRUEL. Avec 7 illustrations d'après Henri Scheffer et Ary Renan reproduites en héliogravure. Infimes frottis sur le mors.
1899réf. 54351Paris Pelletan 1899 Petit in-4, maroquin jansniste bordeaux, dos nerfs; filet or sur les coupes; larges encadrements intrieurs orns d'une frise mosaque en maroquin noir et borde d'un filet dor, doublures et gardes de peau moire dans les tons rouges et verts, tranches lisses dores, couverture imprime (H. Blanchetire).Premire dition illustre de ce texte, comportant 30 compositions d'Henry Bellery-Desfontaines imprimes en deux tons, dont un frontispice, un portrait de l'auteur, 20 in-texte, et 8 fleurons et bandeaux. Tirage limit 440 exemplaires numrots sur vlin. Un des 400 exemplaires numrots en chiffres arabes.
1993réf. BN124732Thieme 1993. 1993. Hardcover. Renal Anatomy Applied to Urology Endourology and Interventional Radiology Renal Anatomy Applied to Urology Endourology and Interventional Radiology Sampaio Francisco J. B.; Uflacker Renan Thieme hardcover
1899réf. 37009Paris: Edouard Pelletan 1899. Fine. Edouard Pelletan Paris 1899 20 x 27 cm broché Edition with original compositions by H. Bellery-Desfontaines engraved by Eugène Froment one of 400 numbered copies. A very good copy. Edouard Pelletan unknown
1999réf. 51644Les Amis du Livre contemporain 1999 In-folio, en feuilles sous couverture rempliée illustrée d'une lithographie originale, emboîtage marouflé de toile noire orné d'une empreinte de l'artiste sur le premier plat et imprimé sur le dos. 104 pages, Huit eaux-fortes originales à double-page,
1870réf. feb1187451870. Used. For more details please contact me unknown
1890réf. 155786Paris: Calmann Lévy 1890. A fresh example of the deluxe issue on Holland paper First edition deluxe issue number 3 of 30 copies on Holland paper. One of Renan's earliest compositions L'Avenir de la science "The Future of Science" is arguably his most liberal work presenting the young philosopher's meditations on scientific naturalism and his belief in the importance of the history of religion: premises which laid the foundations for his later career. L'Avenir de la science was written between May 1848 and July 1849 inspired by the February Revolution. It was not published however until two years before the author's death when it appeared with a more recently written preface in which Renan reflected on the development of his views. "Renan's few disappointments in his earlier work aside it was this obstinate belief in the perfectibility of humanity through science that made L'Avenir de la science one of the touchstone books for understanding the intellectual hubris that marked the first generation of French positivists and that was subsequently passed on to the founders of the Third Republic" Roe p. 41. This deluxe issue is not noted by Vicaire who records only the regular edition in octavo and with the same pagination priced at 7 fr. 50. We have also traced a different format at auction: 20 numbered copies on Imperial Japanese paper. Of the five appearances of this title at auction none have been examples on Holland paper. Large octavo 255 x 175 mm. Contemporary pale pink quarter cloth marbled sides green spine label bound to preserve the "en carré" format retaining its wide margins and uncut edges. Spine sunned ends bumped extremities lightly worn endpapers first and last leaves and a few margins browned else internally bright and crisp a handful of pencil marginal annotations and marks. A fresh and well-preserved copy. Vicaire Manuel de l'amateur de livres du XIXe siècle VI 1035. Glenn H. Roe The Passion of Charles Péguy: Literature Modernity and the Crisis of Historicism 2014. hardcover
1863réf. 184731Paris: Michel Lévy Frères 1863. The most important book of the century First edition of a work with profound and lasting cultural repercussions which took its lead from German higher criticism and pictured Jesus through the lens of historical rationalism upsetting both ecclesiastical authorities and secular nationalists. Vie de Jésus was an extraordinary literary event selling 146000 copies in the first 18 months 10 printings in the first year and being translated almost at once into numerous other languages. The book was intended as the first book in the eight-volume series Histoire des Origines du Christianisme and contains a series half-title to that effect. Renan was persuaded by his sister Henriette to write the work. He began it with her help while they were travelling through Syria - where she died of a fever that nearly claimed his life as well. The book is dedicated to her memory. Years earlier Renan had written "I envy the man who shall evoke from the past the origins of Christianity. Such a writer would compose the most important book of the century." Octavo 216 x 134 mm. Contemporary purple quarter grosgrain roan purple morocco-grain cloth sides framed in blind marbled endpapers. Green cloth folding case. A touch of wear to extremities else a fine copy. En français dans le texte 285; Printing and the Mind of Man 352. hardcover
1999réf. 143111999 P., Les Amis du Livre Contemporain, 1999, 1 vol. in-folio (465 x 330 mm) en feuilles sous couverture rempliée, conservé dans une boîte à châsse toilée noire, auteur et titre en blanc au dos, éditeur en blanc au verso et empreinte à froid sur le plat supérieur, de 108 pp.Très bel exemplaire.
réf. 13958Edouard Pelletan Editeur "Paris, 1899, in-4 maroquin chocolat, dos à cinq nerfs orné de filets et palmettes dorés, date en queue. Double filet doré sur les coupes, toutes tranches dorées sur témoins, plats encadrés d'un double filet doré avec en son centre un décor filets, palmettes et roulettes à la grecque figurant un temple stylisé. Large frise dorée à la grecque sur les contreplats. Gardes de moire bleu-nuit. Couvertures et dos conservés. Etui bordé. Reliure signée CHAMBOLLE-DURU. 40pp. Compositions de Bellery-Desfontaines gravées par Eugène Froment et tirées en noir et brique. Tirage à 400 exemplaires, celui-ci un des 25 de tête réimposé grand in-4 sur Japon ancien comprenant une grande aquarelle originale signée de Bellery-Defontaines, une double suite d'épreuves d'artiste, sur Chine et sur Japon mince, signées par le graveur. Notre exemplaire comporte en outre reliés in-fine : Le prospectus de publication, sur Japon au format grand in-4 et sur vélin au format petit in-4 ainsi que le carton d'invitation, sur ces deux papiers, à l'exposition des aquarelles, dessins et fumés ayant servis à cette édition. Carteret IV-337 """"Belle publication très cotée, conçue dans une note antique, du plus heureux effet. L'illustrateur, de grand talent, a été particulièrement inspiré et l'excellent graveur, mérite tous les éloges. C'est d'ailleurs l'une des plus belles publications de cet éditeur."""
1863réf. 52490Paris Michel Lévy Frères 1863. Royal 8vo. Bound in a nice contemporary red halfcalf with five raised bands to spine with blindstamped borders to compartments. A very nice copy also with the often lacking half-title "Histoire des Origines du Christianisme. Livre premier". 4 LIX 462 pp. 1 leaf colophon. True first edition of this seminal classic on the life of Jesus which caused an immediate scandal when it appeared. Renan's masterpiece which constitudes the first attempt to write a biography of Jesus the man and strongly puts forth the notion that the Bible too can be subject to historical investigation and critical scrutiny. The work enraged the Roman Catholic Church but was an immediate success in most of Europe. "In six months sixty thousand copies of the French edition had been sold and edition succeeded edition. Renan regarded the book as the first of a series on the "Origins of Christianity" which he continued with "The Apostles" 1866 "Saint Paul" 1869 "The Anti-Christ" 1873 "The Gospels" 1877 "The Christian Church" 1879 and "Marcus Aurelius" 1881 but none of these emulated the success of the "Life of Jesus". Immediate success was partly a "succès de scandale" but this would not have kept the book alive. It is Renan's approach to the subject and his beautiful prose that gave it lasting eminence." PMM 352. This groundbreaking work analyses the personality of the man Jesus -a figure created by Renan out of his mind but based on historical sources. "It is a pastoral idyll with the central figure a gentle albeit oracular visionary his power to work miracles a part of his unique personality -the son of man but not the Son of God. In this great work it seems clear that the audience he has found was the one he sought: the general reading public rather than the limited coterie of scholars; and there is no doubt of the fact or the degree of his success." PMM 352. "C'est le livre plus célèbre d'Ernest Renan 1823-1892 et le premier volume de l'Hisoire des origines du Christianisme". on peut considérer cette "Vie de Jésus" comme une oeuvre de vulgarisation: l'auteur cherche à déterminer ce qui au point de vue "scientifique" est de créance dans la vie du Nazaréen" Laffont-Bompiani IV:681. Apart from causing a world-wide scandal the work was also a world-wide success and no matter how many harsh words can be said about the historical and religious contents of the work there is no doubt about the fact that it influenced the destiny of Catholocism decisively and that it is a masterpiece of 19th century French literature. It is very elegantly written and is renowned for its description of the historical setting charming descriptions of sceneries its penetrating psychological analysis and its overall style and class. "Il faut ajouter que la "Vie de Jésus" compte au nombre des livres les mieux écrits de son temps; le charme de la peinture des paysages le pittoresque géneralement exact des évocations historiques l'analyse pénétrante de l'âme des personnages des seductions du style enfin n'ont pas été pour rien dans le succès universel de cette oeuvre." Laffont-Bompiani IV:681. Ernest Renan 1823-1892 was a French philologist philosopher and historian. His father died when he was aged five and his mother wanted him to become a priest. Until he was about 16 years old he was trained by the Church but due to his investigative and truth-seeking nature as well as his studies e.g. Hebrew he was in doubt as to the historical truth of the Scriptures and with the help of his sister he chose his own path in life. "He studied intensively the languages of the Bible and filled a number of minor academic positions frequently encountering difficulties because of the heterodoxy and outspokenness of his religious opinions." Printing and the Mind of Man 352. In 1840 he began studying philosophy and later philology in 1847 he took his degree as Agrégé de Philosophie and became master at the Lycée of Vendome. After having returned from a mission to Italy in the year 1850 where he gathered material for his historical-philosophical masterpiece "Averroës et l'Averroisme" he was offered employment at the "Bibliothèque Nationale" at the manuscript department. In 1861 he was chosen to become professor of Hebrew at the Collège de France but because the emperor refused to ratify the appointment inspired by the Clerical party he was not established in the chair untill 1870. In 1878 he was elected for the Academy. Renan is considered a scolar of the greatest excellence and an impressive writer. hardcover
1997réf. 59681997 Beyrouth, Edition Terre du Liban, 1997. Complet en 1 vol. de texte et 1 étui de planches in-plano: 24 x 35 cm + 37 x 54 cm: [24]-[4]-884-[2]p. + [1]-70pl. + 14 photos. Reproduction de l'édition de Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1864, avec les 70 planches gravées reproduites, et complétée de 14 clichés photographiques du XXe siècle. Un des 1348 exemplaires numérotés (no. 1054), après 52 de tête. Reliure en pleine toile bordeaux; dos lisse avec pièce de titre en lettres dorées sur cuir noir, chemise-étui habillée de la même manière. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf.
1863réf. 52577Paris Michel Lévy Frères 1863. Royal 8vo. Bound in a very nice contemporary red half calf with five raised bands to spine blindstamped borders to compartments and gilt title. Light occassional brownspotting but overall a very nice clean and tight copy in- as well as externally. With the half-title present "Histoire des Origines du Christianisme. Livre premier". 4 LIX 1 462 pp. 1 leaf colophon. True first edition of this seminal classic on the life of Jesus which caused an immediate scandal when it appeared - Renan's masterpiece which constitudes the first attempt to write a biography of Jesus the man and strongly puts forth the notion that the Bible too can be subject to historical investigation and critical scrutiny. The work enraged the Roman Catholic Church but was an immediate success in most of Europe. "In six months sixty thousand copies of the French edition had been sold and edition succeeded edition. Renan regarded the book as the first of a series on the "Origins of Christianity" which he continued with "The Apostles" 1866 "Saint Paul" 1869 "The Anti-Christ" 1873 "The Gospels" 1877 "The Christian Church" 1879 and "Marcus Aurelius" 1881 but none of these emulated the success of the "Life of Jesus". Immediate success was partly a "succès de scandale" but this would not have kept the book alive. It is Renan's approach to the subject and his beautiful prose that gave it lasting eminence." PMM 352. This groundbreaking work analyses the personality of the man Jesus -a figure created by Renan out of his mind but based on historical sources. "It is a pastoral idyll with the central figure a gentle albeit oracular visionary his power to work miracles a part of his unique personality -the son of man but not the Son of God. In this great work it seems clear that the audience he has found was the one he sought: the general reading public rather than the limited coterie of scholars; and there is no doubt of the fact or the degree of his success." PMM 352. "C'est le livre plus célèbre d'Ernest Renan 1823-1892 et le premier volume de l'Hisoire des origines du Christianisme". on peut considérer cette "Vie de Jésus" comme une oeuvre de vulgarisation: l'auteur cherche à déterminer ce qui au point de vue "scientifique" est de créance dans la vie du Nazaréen" Laffont-Bompiani IV:681. Apart from causing a world-wide scandal the work was also a world-wide success and no matter how many harsh words can be said about the historical and religious contents of the work there is no doubt about the fact that it influenced the destiny of Catholocism decisively and that it is a masterpiece of 19th century French literature. It is very elegantly written and is renowned for its description of the historical setting charming descriptions of sceneries its penetrating psychological analysis and its overall style and class. "Il faut ajouter que la "Vie de Jésus" compte au nombre des livres les mieux écrits de son temps; le charme de la peinture des paysages le pittoresque géneralement exact des évocations historiques l'analyse pénétrante de l'âme des personnages des seductions du style enfin n'ont pas été pour rien dans le succès universel de cette oeuvre." Laffont-Bompiani IV:681. Ernest Renan 1823-1892 was a French philologist philosopher and historian. His father died when he was aged five and his mother wanted him to become a priest. Until he was about 16 years old he was trained by the Church but due to his investigative and truth-seeking nature as well as his studies e.g. Hebrew he was in doubt as to the historical truth of the Scriptures and with the help of his sister he chose his own path in life. "He studied intensively the languages of the Bible and filled a number of minor academic positions frequently encountering difficulties because of the heterodoxy and outspokenness of his religious opinions." Printing and the Mind of Man 352. In 1840 he began studying philosophy and later philology in 1847 he took his degree as Agrégé de Philosophie and became master at the Lycée of Vendome. After having returned from a mission to Italy in the year 1850 where he gathered material for his historical-philosophical masterpiece "Averroës et l'Averroisme" he was offered employment at the "Bibliothèque Nationale" at the manuscript department. In 1861 he was chosen to become professor of Hebrew at the Collège de France but because the emperor refused to ratify the appointment inspired by the Clerical party he was not established in the chair untill 1870. In 1878 he was elected for the Academy. Renan is considered a scolar of the greatest excellence and an impressive writer. hardcover
