Le Clercq, Chrestien, ca. 1630-ca. 1695
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- Summary
- Chrestien Le Clercq, O.M.R., was a Recollect Franciscan friar and missionary to the Mi'kmaq on the Gaspé peninsula of Canada in the mid-17th century. He was a chronicler of New France, who wrote two early histories, and translator of a Native American language of that region, adapting an apparently indigenous mnemonic glyph system into a writing system known as Míkmaq hieroglyphic writing. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3]
- Born
- 1641 [2][3]
- Birth Place
- Bapaume en Artois (Pas-de-Calais) [2]
- Died
- 1695 [2]
- 1700 [3]
- Death Place
- Lens (Pas-de-Calais) [2]
- Language
- French [2]
- Occupation
- missionary [3]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [3]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 3. Wikidata
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