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Jacques Perret

PERRET, Jacques, French missionary, born in Flanders in 1595; died in Sault Sainte Marie in 1674. He was a Jesuit, and, coming to Canada in 1642 as a missionary to the Algonquins, labored afterward for nearly twenty years among the Indians on Kennebec river and the Chippewas. In 1671 he was attached to the Ottawa missions at Sault Sainte Marie, and died there, having altogether labored thirty-two years as a missionary. Among his papers, which are preserved in the National library of Paris, have been found a dictionary of the Algonquin language, a catechism, a grammar, and several sermons m native dialects.

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