The abbé Antoine Banier, a French clergyman and member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres from 1713, was a historian and translator, whose rationalizing interpretation of Greek mythology was widely accepted until the mid-nineteenth... Wikipedia
Born: November 2, 1673, Dallet, Mur-sur-Allier, France
Died: November 2, 1741 (age 68 years), Paris, France