Pierre Antoine Louis Havet (6 January 1849 — 26 January 1925) was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 latinist and Hellenist

Hellenism (Academia)

Academics who study ancient or modern Greece may be referred to as Hellenists, and thus the study of Greece may be referred to as Hellenism. This should not be confused with the use of Hellenism to mean the spread of Greek culture, nor to describe the neoclassic Hellenism movement....

, an expert an classical Greek and Latin poetry.

He was professor at Collège de France

Collège de France

The Collège de France is a higher education and research establishment located in Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Écoles...

, where in 1885-1925 he was chairman of the department of Latin philology

Philology

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. Since 1893 he was member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

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. In 1917 he became the first vice-president of the Association Guillaume Budé

Association Guillaume Budé

The Association Guillaume Budé, named after the 16th century humanist Guillaume Budé, is a French cultural and learned society dedicated to the promotion of Humanities. The current president of the society is the hellenist Jacques Jouanna....

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He was member of the central committee of the Ligue des droits de l'homme ("Human Rightl League"), which defended Alfred Dreyfus

Alfred Dreyfus

Alfred Dreyfus was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French and European history...

 in the Dreyfus affair

Dreyfus Affair

The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s. It involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent...

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Major works

• Manuel de critique verbale appliquée aux textes latins (1867)
• Cours élémentaire de métrique grecque et latine (1886)
• La Prose métrique de Symmaque et les origines métriques du Cursus (1892) Text online
• Amphitruo (Amphitryon
  Amphitryon
  Amphitryon , in Greek mythology, was a son of Alcaeus, king of Tiryns in Argolis.Amphitryon was a Theban general, who was originally from Tiryns in the eastern part of the Peloponnese. He was friends with Panopeus....
  
  , by Plautus
  Plautus
  Titus Maccius Plautus , commonly known as "Plautus", was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by the innovator of Latin literature, Livius Andronicus...
  
  ) ed. L. Havet (1895) Text online
• Manuel de critique verbale appliquée aux textes latins (1911)
• Notes critiques sur le texte de Festus (1914) Text online
• Notes critiques sur l'Orator et sur Isée (1927) Text online