Editing Eusèbe Renaudot

{{Short description|French theologian and Orientalist (1646–1720)}}
[[File:Eusèbe Renaudot - Versailles MV 2935.jpg|thumb|150px|Eusèbe Renaudot (1689)]]
'''Eusèbe Renaudot''' ({{IPA|fr|øzɛb ʁənodo}}; 20 July 1646{{snd}}1 September 1720) was a French [[theology|theologian]] and [[oriental studies|Orientalist]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 12 Asia, Africa and the Americas (1700-1800)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NMuDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA649|date=1 November 2018|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-38416-3|pages=649}}</ref>

==Biography==
Renaudot was born in [[Paris]], and brought up and educated for a career in the church. After being educated by the Jesuits, and joining the Oratorians in 1666, he was in poor health, left his order, and never took more than [[minor orders]].<ref name=CE>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Eusebius Renaudot}}</ref> Despite his interest in [[theology]] and his title of ''[[abbé]]'', much of his life was spent at the French court, where he attracted the notice of [[Jean-Baptiste Colbert|Colbert]] and was often employed in confidential affairs.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

He was a prominent supporter of [[Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet]], in the controversies with [[Richard Simon (priest)|Richard Simon]], [[François Fénelon]] and the Jesuits. In later life his attitudes became [[Catholic Church in France|Gallican]] and [[Jansenist]]. He became a member of the [[Académie française]] (1689), the [[Academy of Inscriptions]] (1691), and the [[Accademia della Crusca]] of Florence.<ref name=CE/>

==Works==
The learning in Eastern languages which he acquired in his youth and maintained amid the distractions of court life did not bear fruit until he was sixty-two.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Renaudot's best-known books are ''[[Historia Patriarcharum Alexandrinorum]]'' (Paris, 1713 which is translation of original work by [[Severus ibn al-Muqaffa|Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa]]) and ''Liturgiarum orientalium collectio'' (2 vols., 1715–16). The latter argued for continuous Christian belief in the [[sacraments]], the topic on which most of his theological writings turned, and which was then, in consequence of the controversies attaching to [[Antoine Arnauld]]'s ''Perpétuité de la foy de l'Église'', a major matter of debate between French [[Catholics]] and [[Protestants]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Other works were ''Gennadii Patriarchae Constantinopolitani Homiliae de Eucharistia'' (Paris, 1709) and ''Anciennes relations des Indes et de la Chine'' (Paris, 1718, <small>[[:fr:Relation de la Chine et de l'Inde (manuscrit arabe)|see fr]]</small>).<ref name=CE/>

==See also==
* [[Théophraste Renaudot]], grandfather of Eusèbe Renaudot

==Notes==
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==References==
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Renaudot, Eusèbe|volume=23|page=96}}
*{{Catholic|wstitle=Eusebius Renaudot}}

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