Charlevoix

Charlevoix, PIERRE FRANCOIS XAVIER DE, a French Jesuit traveller, was born in St Quentin in 1682, twice visited Canada, and voyaged down the Mississippi to New Orleans. He published his journal, histories of San Domingo, Japan, and Paraguay, and a Histoire de la Nouvelle France (1744; Eng. trans. New York, 6 vols. 1865-72). He died at La Flèche in 1761.