Luc Benoist

Luc Benoist, pseudonym: Luc Benoist ( born December 23, 1893 in Paris, France, † 1980) was a French art historian, author and essayist.

Life

In the 1920s, Benoist published his first books on art history. From 1928 to his interest of esotericism and symbolism turned to. His particular interest was the metaphysics of the Middle East and the work of René Guénon.

Benoist worked as a curator at the Palace of Versailles and became honorary curator of the Musées de France. He finished his working years in the period 1947-1959 from a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts Nantes in Brittany. The chief editor of the Nouvelle Revue Française Jean Paulhan asked him before the war broke out in 1939 with a thesis on the work of Guénon, but could appear in the magazine until 1943. After Guénon had moved to Cairo, Benoist corresponded regularly with Guénon and published the correspondence in the journal Études Traditional.

Publications

  • Art historian
  • Author
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1893
  • Died in 1980
  • Man
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