About Antoine Guenée
Lived 1717 – 1803 (aged 86). Antoine Guenée was a French apologist, translator, catholic priest, cleric, catholic theologian and university teacher.
Antoine Guénée, Letters from some Portuguese, German and Polish Jews to Voltaire, 1817 (9th edition), Paris. In the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland. Antoine Guenée (23 November 1717 – 27 November 1803) was a French priest and Christian apologist, born at Étampes.
He wrote, besides various apologetic works, Lettres de Quelques Juifs Portugais, Allemands et Polonais, à M. de Voltaire, Paris, 1769, often reprinted and translated into English and other languages. Along with the prominent Sephardic Jew, Isaac De Pinto, Guenée defends the Jews against Voltaire's criticisms of their religion and way of life.
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Who was Antoine Guenée?
French priest and Christian apologist (1717-1803)
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Antoine Guenée was born on 23 November 1717 in Étampes.
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Antoine Guenée died on 27 November 1803 in Fontainebleau.
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Antoine Guenée was an apologist, translator, catholic priest, cleric, catholic theologian and university teacher.
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Antoine Guenée was French.
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