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Pope Innocent XI
Huet, Pierre Daniel
Pierre Daniel Huet (1630-1721) was educated by Jesuits but also received lessons from the Huguenot pastor Samuel Borchart
who in time became his friend. However, Huet was eventually appointed the Catholic bishop of Soissons in 1685, but was not confirmed in the post by Pope Innocent XI because of his homosexuality. Subsequently, the succeeding Pope, Alexander VIII, appointed Huet bishop of Avranches.
Huet expressed similar views to Borchart, linking the biblical patriarchs and the story of Atlantis in his Demonstratio Evangelica[1007]. Lewis Spence accused[259.33] Huet along with Borchart and Vossius of ‘ingeniously misreading’ the Pentateuch in order to add credibility to this opinion.
*Stephen P. Kershaw notes[1585.197] that Huet, citing de Gomara, also concluded that the Mexicans were descended from the Atlanteans.*