ANDRÉ, LOUIS. - French Jesuit, b. at Saint-Rémy (Bouches-du-Rhône) in 1631; having entered the novitiate of Lyon in 1650, from 1669 a missionary in Canada, chiefly among the Algonquins, d. at Québec on 19 Sept. 1715.

Several accounts by him survive, containing curious information and observations, e.g. on the tides. They were printed by Fr. F. Martin in Relations inédites de la Nouvelle-France, I, Paris 1861, pp. 103-24, 223-33; II, ibid. 1861, pp. 118-122, and taken up again by R. G. Thwaites in Jesuit Relations, LVII, Cleveland 1899, pp. 267-305, 318-19; LVIII, ibid. 1899, pp. 273-81; LX, ibid. 1900, pp. 201-205. Fr. A. also left in manuscript a dictionary of the Algonquin language, a catechism, homilies and other works in the same language.

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BIBL.: Sommervogel, I, col. 333-34; Streit, Bibl., II, p. 843 and passim; A. E. Jones, Sketch of Fr. L. A., S. J. an early Wisconsin missionary, in U. S. Catholic historical magazine, 3 (1890), pp. 26-40; J. C. Pilling, Bibliography of Algonquin Language, Washington 1891, pp. 12-16.

Edmondo Lamalle

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