Antoine Banier

The abbé Antoine Banier (2 November 1673 – 2 November 1741), a French clergyman and member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres from 1713,^[1] was a historian^[2] and translator, whose rationalizing interpretation of Greek mythology was widely accepted until the mid-nineteenth century.

^ His antiquarian contributions to the Académie's Transactions are less remembered today.
^ His ambitious social history Histoire générale des cérémonies, moeurs, et coûtumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, ("General history of the ceremonies, morals and customs of all the world's peoples")

[1] His antiquarian contributions to the Académie's Transactions are less remembered today.

[2] His ambitious social history Histoire générale des cérémonies, moeurs, et coûtumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, ("General history of the ceremonies, morals and customs of all the world's peoples")

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