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Abstract For reasons linked to the republican struggle and its revolutionary origins, the importance of religion in the political and intellectual history of nineteenth-century France has been overshadowed, and the figure of Renan has sunk into oblivion. …

Abstract La Prière sur l'Acropole , published in La Revue des Deux Mondes in 1876, then inserted in Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse in 1883, is, despite its complexity, one of Renan's most famous and popular texts. Numerous historians of literature and …

Abstract It was Léon Daudet who called Renan "the god of the Third Republic". How did Renan, who had long been a supporter of a constitutional monarchy, come to call himself a "morrow's republican" in 1878, after the May 16th victory that had converted …

Abstract Because of the personalities of the players, their respective magisteria and the importance of the issues at stake, the confrontation between Pius IX and Renan has something of what I would call the spine of the century. It can be read in the …

Abstract Renan's interest in "religious history", a term he understood in its broadest sense, was bound to lead him to tackle the question of Buddhism, at a time when studies in this field were progressing by leaps and bounds in Europe. Like most of his …

Abstract In 1848, Ernest Renan abandoned the publication of L'Avenir de la science and began writing a thesis on Averroès. Published in 1852, Averroès et l'averroïsme forms a sort of triptych with De philosophia peripatetica apud syros , published the …

Abstract The long Histoire des origines du christianisme is a strange book, which certainly exerted a great influence on people's minds, but despite its willingness to parallel the history of Judaism and Christianity with that of Rome, it was almost never …

Abstract Re-elected three times after his appointment in 1883 (twice unanimously), Ernest Renan was highly regarded as Administrator of the Collège de France, a position he held until his death in 1892. Philippe Berger, Renan's successor at the Chair of …

Abstract If Ernest Renan's interest in Semitic epigraphy is well known, what about Greco-Latin epigraphy, the only one that could really provide him with useful information to complete the picture he wanted to paint of the beginnings of Christianity in …

Abstract Renan's opening lecture caused a scandal. He spoke of the man Jesus, provoking the ire of ecclesiastical circles. But Renan also endeavored to bring the results of critical exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, as practiced in German-speaking countries, …

Abstract In 1860-61, at the request of Napoleon III, Ernest Renan carried out a "Mission de Phénicie" (Mission to Phoenicia), which would later be the subject of a major publication and, in a way, the birth certificate of Phoenician archaeology and …

Abstract It is to Renan that specialists in cuneiform writing owe their name of Assyriologists. However, the confrontation of the ideas Renan had set out as early as 1855 in his famous Histoire générale des langues sémitiques with the results of …

Abstract Ernest Renan, French writer and philologist, was entrusted by Napoleon III with an archaeological mission to Phoenicia. He arrived in Beirut on October 29, 1860 with his sister Henriette. " Our first stay was in the village of Amschit (...), …

Abstract Reading Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse in parallel with Vie de Jésus , particularly the preface to the 1873 edition, shows how Renan takes care to present himself as a rigorous Catholic, full of contempt for "liberal theologians" and having …

Abstract On Sunday, October 2, 1892, just over 120 years ago, Ernest Renan died here at the Collège de France. The year 2012 also marks the centenary of his famous opening lecture at the Collège de France. These are ample reasons for the Collège de France …

The -omics sciences took off at the end of the 20th century with the sequencing of the human genome. The 21st century is marked by the development of integral proteomic analysis. However, the current trend is towards "metabolomics", a science …

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