| Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix Born: 29-Oct-1682
Birthplace: Saint-Quentin, France
Died: 1-Feb-1761
Location of death: La Flèche, France
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Explorer Nationality: France
Executive summary: Jesuit explorer of America French Jesuit traveller and historian, was born at St. Quentin on the 29th of October 1682. At the age of sixteen he entered the Society of Jesus; and at the age of twenty-three was sent to Canada, where he remained for four years as professor at Quebec. He then returned and became professor of belles lettres at home, and travelled on the errands of his society in various countries. In 1720-22, under orders from the regent, he visited America for the second time, and went along the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi. In later years (1733-55) he was one of the directors of the Journal de Tr�voux. He died at La Fl�che on the 1st of February 1761. His works, enumerated in the Bibliographie des Pr�rs de la Compagnie de Jesus (by Carlos Sommervogel), fall into two groups. The first contains his Histoire de l'�tablissement, du progr�s et de la d�cadence du Christianisme dans l'empire du Japon (Rouen, 1715; English translation as History of the Church of Japan, 1715), and his Histoire et description g�n�rale du Japon (1736), a compilation chiefly from K�mpfer. The second group includes his historical work on America: Histoire de l'Isle Espagnole ou de Saint Domingue (1730), based on manuscript memoirs of P. Jean-Baptiste Le Pers and original sources; Histoire de Paraguay (1756); Vie de la M�re Marie de l'Incarnation, institutrice et premi�re sup�rieure des Urselines de la Nouvelle-France (1724); Histoire et description g�n�rale de la Nouvelle-France (1744; in English 1769), a work of capital importance for Canadian history.
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