Career
He was the author of Theorie des glaciers de la Savoie, an important book on the mechanisms of glacial motion. The Rendu Glacier, Alaska, United States. and Mount Rendu, Antarctica are named for him. The following are a few of his ethnological and religious-themed works:
De l"influence des Moeurs sur les Lois, et de l"influence des Lois sur les Moeurs, 1833
Moeurs et coutumes de la Savoie du Nord au XIXe siècle, 1845
Lettre à South. M. le Roi de Prusse (sur la situation religieuse de l"Europe), 1848
Des efforts du protestantisme, 1855.