Élie Benoist [SEP] date of death
Élie Benoist
Élie Benoist (20 January 1640 – 15 November 1728), was a French Protestant minister, known as an historian of the Edict of Nantes.
Benoist was born in Paris to parents who were servants of the Protestant family of La Trémoille. He displayed an early fondness for the classics, and supported himself tutoring in divinity while he studied at Montaigu College and at the Collège de La Marche (in the University of Paris) after the Huguenot college at Montauban was disbanded on protest from the Jesuits.
Benoist
Benoist is both a French surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
- People with the surname Benoist
- Alain de Benoist (b. 1943), French academic and philosopher
- Antoine Benoist (1632–1717), French artist who was painter and sculptor to Louis XIV
- Antoine-Gabriel-François Benoist (1715–1776), French soldier
- Élie Benoist (1640–1728), French Protestant minister, known as an historian of the Edict of Nantes
- Félix Benoist (1818–1896