Author: PARISOT, PIERRE CUREL [or PéRE NORBERT and later as ABBE PLATEL]:
Title: Memoires historiques presentes au souverain pontife Benoit XIV. Sur les missions des Indes Orientales. Four volumes. Luques (probably Avignon) 1745.
Description: . Pp. (xxiv), 419; (ii), 510; (ii), 460, (7); (ii), 342. Contemporary red morocco, gilt floral dentelles on covers, spines decorated in gilt, g.e., worn, hinges cracked, spine ends chipped. Second French edition (first 1744) of this critical account of the Jesuit mission in India which caused a scandal. Père Norbert (1697-1769), which is a pseydonym for Abbé Platel, became a Capuchin in 1716. He went to Pondicherry as Attorney General of Foreign Missions in 1736. This work is a very detailed account of the Jesuit mission at Malabar between 1660 and 1744. It is criticizing the conduct and actions of the Jesuit throughout. Includes much information about the Indians, their customs etc. "Describes the proceeedings of the Jesuits in the Malabar Mission, where they authorized the most blasphemous mixture of the Christian and Pagan rites" (Sabin). Cf Chadenat 5259 (French ed. 1744). Cordier BS 923. Quérard vi, 446. Cf Sabin 55451. Streit vi, 448.

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, voyage, jesuit, missionaries,


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