French missionary and author, born in Paris, in 1663. After teaching for a few years he took charge of a parish in the Island of Martinique, West Indies, from 1694 to 1696. Having joined the Dominicans, he traveled extensively, until his return to Europe in 1705, when he visited Italy and finally settled in Paris. His Nouveau Voyage aux Îles de l’Amérique (1724) had several editions, and was translated into Dutch and German. He edited Marchais’s Voyage en Guinée, Îles Voisines et Cayenne. He died in Paris on the 6th of January 1738.
