Dupuis, Charles François, a French savant; was a member of the Convention of the Council of the Five Hundred, and President of the Legislative Body during the Revolution period; devoted himself to the study of astronomy in connection with mythology, the result of which was published in his work in 12 vols., entitled “Origine de tous les Cultes, ou la Religion Universelle”; he advocated the unity of the astronomical and religious myths of all nations (1742‒1809).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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