Abstract
Re-elected three times after his appointment in 1883 (twice unanimously), Ernest Renan was highly regarded as Administrator of the Collège de France, a position he held until his death in 1892. Philippe Berger, Renan's successor at the Chair of Hebraic, Chaldean and Syriac Languages , said that " he was loved by all, and even those whose direction of thought most distanced them from him surrounded him with respectful affection ". This talk will seek to give voice to Renan, Administrator, and to show the order of heterogeneous realities, scientific and practical, that preoccupied him in a position whose charge constituted, he declared, " the greatest honor of his life ".
