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URFE, Louis Edouard d',
West Indian missionary, born in Les Saintes, Guadeloupe, in 1699; died in
Leghorn in 1762. He was educated in the college of the Jesuits at Bordeaux,
entered that order in 1727, and was sent in the following year to Guadeloupe,
where he resided several years and had charge of the parish of Capesterre. In
1742 he went to Cayenne, founded several missions among the Galibi Indians,
explored Guiana and the basin of the Orinoco, and in 1760 became visitor of his
order. He died at Leghorn during a voyage for the purpose of conferring with the
general of the Jesuits. Urfe's works include " Grammaire Galibi"
(Paris, 1755) ; "Dictionnaire Galibi" (1757); and "Histoire des etablissements
de la foi fondes dans la Guiane ou Nouvelle France meridionale" (1762).
URFE, Louis Edouard d', West Indian missionary, born in Les Saintes, Guadeloupe, in 1699; died in Leghorn in 1762. He was educated in the college of the Jesuits at Bordeaux, entered that order in 1727, and was sent in the following year to Guadeloupe, where he resided several years and had charge of the parish of Capesterre. In 1742 he went to Cayenne, founded several missions among the Galibi Indians, explored Guiana and the basin of the Orinoco, and in 1760 became visitor of his order. He died at Leghorn during a voyage for the purpose of conferring with the general of the Jesuits. Urfe's works include " Gram-maire Galibi" (Paris, 1755) ; "Dictionnaire Galibi" (1757); and "Histoire des etablissements de la foi fondes dans la Guiane ou Nou velle France meridionale" (1762).
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