 He also was a member of the Société Asiatique (1898, vice-president 1916–1926) and of the Académie des sciences coloniales, president of the Société de linguistique (1903–1904, 1918) and of the Société d'ethnographie.Favored by a good knowledge of European languages, the work of Clément Huart in the field of Arabic, Persian and Turkish studies were particularly appreciated in their time.According to his contemporaries, his personal preferences were in Arabic, and he knew Turkish better than Persian which he spoke with a Turkish accent.