Huet, Pierre Daniel (1630–1721)

French scholar and churchman. In 1652 he visited the Swedish Court, and discovered in Stockholm the famous Origen manuscript, which he edited in 1668. In 1670 he and Jacques Bossuet were appointed tutors of the dauphin, and prepared an edition of the classics for their pupil's use. Huet took orders in 1676; he became abbot of Aunay in 1678, bishop of Soissons in 1685, bishop of Avranches in 1692, and abbot of Fontenay in 1699. In 1701 he settled in the Jesuit College in Paris.

Huet was born in Caen, France. Among his works are De Interpretatione (1661), a collection of poems (1664), Demonstratio Evangelica (1679), and Traite de la Faiblesse de l'Esprit Humain, which was published posthumously in 1923.