One of the four pioneer missionaries of Canada and first missionary to the Hurons (q.v.), b. near Paris in 1586; d. in France, 29 March, 1632.

French Jesuit, b. at St-Valéry-sur-Somme about 1660; d. at Paris 1748.

French theologian and noted doctor of the Sorbonne, b. in Burgundy at Lusigny-sur-Ouche, 12 June, 1711, d. at Issy (Paris), 21 July, 1780.

…issions, b. at St­Malo, Brittany, 25 November, 1671; d. at Paris, 5 March, 1708.…

French historical painter, born in Paris, 1619; died at the Gobelin tapestry works, 1690.

A French theologian and controversialist, b. at Lisieux towards the middle of the seventeenth century; d. 1 July, 1716, at Paris.

French cardinal, b. at Paris, 1632; d. at Grenoble, 1707.

French historian; b. at Nemours, 1839; d. at Paris, 1897.

Born at Paris in 1645; died at Chantilly in 1696. He was the son of a comptroller general of municipal revenue.

Fourth governor of Canada, b. at Paris, 1583; d. there, 16 Feb., 1666.

Biblical scholar and Orientalist; b. at Morlaix (Finisterre), in the Diocese of Quimper, France, 5 Dec., 1811; d. at Paris, 13 Jan., 1868.

A Capuchin, better known as Pere Joseph, b. in Paris, 4 Nov., 1577; d. at Rueil, 18 Dec., 1638.

Archaeologist; son of Charles Lenormant, b. at Paris, 17 January, 1837; d. there, 9 December, 1883.

A French lexicographer and philosopher; born at Paris, 1 February, 1801; died there, 2 June, 1881.

A French bibliographer, b. at Paris, 19 April, 1665 d. there, 13 Aug., 1721.

Born at Pontoise, about 1585; died at Paris, 1654. Lemercier shares with Mansart and Le Muet the glory of representing French architecture most brilliantly under Louis XIII and Richelieu.…

Ecclesiastical writer, b. at Dieppe in Normandy, 18 Feb., 1647; d. at the Abbey of St-Germain in Paris, 24 March, 1724.

French historian and theologian, b. at Boulogne-sur-Mer, department of Pas-de-Calais, 8 Oct., 1661; d. at Paris, 12 March, 1733.

One of the greatest architects of France in the pure Renaissance style, b. at Paris about 1510; d. there, 1571.

A well-known French preacher and ascetical writer of Jansenistic tendencies, born at Rouen, 30 April, 1640; died at Paris, 28 November, 1686.