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See also:PIERRE See also:FRANCOIS See also:CHARLEVOIX
X&VIER DE (1682—1761), See also:French Jesuit traveller and historian, was See also:born at St Quentin on the 29th of See also:October 1682
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At the See also:age of sixteen he entered the Society of Jesus; and at the age of twenty-three was sent to See also:Canada, where he remained for four years as See also:professor at See also:Quebec
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He then returned and became professor of belles lettres at See also:home, and travelled on the errands of his society in various countries
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In 1720-1722, under orders from the See also:regent, he visited See also:America for the second See also:time, and went along the See also:Great Lakes and down the See also:Mississippi
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In later years (1733—1755) he was one of the See also:directors of the See also:Journal de Trevoux
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He died at La See also:Fleche on the 1st of See also:February 1761
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His See also:works, enumerated in the Bibliographic See also:des See also:Fret's de la Compagnie de Jesus (by See also:Carlos Sommervogel), fall into two See also:groups
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The first contains his Histoire de l'etablissement, du progres et de la decadence du Christianisme dans t'See also:empire du Japon (See also:Rouen, 1715; See also:English trans
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See also:History of the See also: G . Shea, 1866—1872), a work of See also:capital importance for See also:Canadian history . |
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