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Download or read book Appleton s Cyclopaedia of American Biography written by James Grant Wilson and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...He was chaplain to Louis XIV., and in 1684, when Laval, bishop of Quebec, went to France to engage a successor, his recommendation by the royal chaplain secured his appointment to that office. He arrived in Canada in July, 1685, in his capacity of vicar-general to Bishop Laval, and remained until Novemler. 1687, when he returned to France. He was consecrated bishop of Quebec, at St. Sulpice de Paris, bv Nicholas Colbert, archbishop of Carthage, in January, 1688, and returned to Canada in August of the same year. He founded the general hospital of Quebec in 1693, and the Ursulines of Three Rivers in 1697. While he was bishop, Louis XIV. confirmed by letters-patent, in October. 1697. the erection of the bishopric of Quebec, and the union of the rectory to the seminary, as well as of the revenues of Labbave de Meubee to the bishopric. SAINT VICTOR. Jacques Benjamin Maxiinilien. Count de. West Indian author, b. in Fort Dauphin, Santo Domingo, 14 Jan., 1770; d. in Paris, 8 Aug., 1858. He studied in the College of La Flcche and became a journalist. Under Napoleon he was on the staff of the "Journal des Debats." and after 1815 he founded several Roman Catholic and royalist magazines. In 1830 he revisited his native land, but he went afterward to the United States, explored the country for two years, and then visited most of the West Indies. His works include " Tableau historique et pittoresque de Paris depuis les Gaulois jusqu'a. nos jours (3 vols., Paris, 1808-'12): "U uvrespoetiques"(1822); "Lettres sur les Etats-Unis ecrites en 1832-'33," which attracted much attention (2 vols., 1835); and "Journal de vovage" (2 vols., 1836). SAJOUS, Charles Euchariste, physician, b. in Paris, France, 13 Dec, ...

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