Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. III, 1949 Missions Missionaries and missiologists

Brévedent, Charles-François de

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Also known as: Italian: Giuseppe Duval

BRÉVEDENT, CHARLES-FRANÇOIS de. - French missionary, b. at Genneville (Calvados) in 1659, entered the Society of Jesus in 1674, set out in 1692 for the mission of Syria. He worked first in Armenia: in 1697 he came to Cairo, having been included among those who were to attempt the penetration into Ethiopia. He began the journey in 1698, in disguise and under the name of Giuseppe Duval, as a companion of the French physician Carlo Poncet, sent to the court of the emperor Iyasu; but he died in July 1699, shortly before arriving at Gondar.

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BIBL.: Three letters of B. are published by C. Beccari, Rerum Aethiopicarum Scriptores occidentales inediti, XIV, Rome 1914, pp. 17-18, 59-66, 70-72, with the documentation relating to the journey (pp. 1-150). Another letter had already been published in the Mercure Galant of Nov. 1698. Cf. Sommervogel, I, col. 147; VIII, col. 1927.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), col. 80.

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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Brévedent, charles-françois de.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 80. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/brevedent-charles-francois-de.

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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Brévedent, charles-françois de.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 80. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/brevedent-charles-francois-de.

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  author    = {Lamalle, Edmondo},
  title     = {Brévedent, charles-françois de},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {III},
  pages     = {80},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/brevedent-charles-francois-de}
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