Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

CHARLEVOIX, PIERRE FRANCOIS

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 946 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

CHARLEVOIX, See also:PIERRE See also:FRANCOIS 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. 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. He then returned and became professor of belles lettres at See also:home, and travelled on the errands of his society in various countries. 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. In later years (1733—1755) he was one of the See also:directors of the See also:Journal de Trevoux. He died at La See also:Fleche on the 1st of See also:February 1761. 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. 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. See also:History of the See also:Church of See also:Japan, 1715), and his Histoire et description generale du Japon (1736), a compilation chiefly from Kampfer. The second See also:group includes his See also:historical See also:work on America: Histoire de See also:lisle Espagnole ou de See also:Saint Domingue (1730), based on See also:manuscript See also:memoirs of P. See also:Jean-See also:Baptiste Le Pers and See also:original See also:sources; Histoire de See also:Paraguay (1756); See also:Vie de la See also:Mere See also:Marie de l'Incarnation, institutrice et premiere superieure des Urselines de la Nouvelle-See also:France (1724); Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle-France (1744; in English 1769; tr. J.

G. Shea, 1866—1872), a work of See also:

capital importance for See also:Canadian history.

End of Article: CHARLEVOIX, PIERRE FRANCOIS

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
CHARLEVOIX 		[next]
CHARLOTTE

Site © 2006 - Net Industries