BRIGOT, PIERRE. — Born in Sully (France) on 1 September 1713, died in Pondichéry on 8 November 1791. In 1743 he was sent to Siam; he worked in Mergui, and from 1742 to 1750 was pro-vicar of Tenasserim. Appointed coadjutor bishop of Siam in 1755, and consecrated two years later in Manila, during the Burmese invasions of 1758 and 1767 he encouraged Christians to defend the capital. The Burmese, victorious in the latter invasion, deported the bishop along with many Christians to Rangoon, where in 1768 Percoto (v.), vicar apostolic of Ava and Pegti.
From 1776 he directed the Malabar mission (Pondichéry), which had been left by the Jesuits, who had been suppressed, and thus became the first superior of that mission, entrusted to the Paris Foreign Missions Society. He died shortly after resigning from his office.
He left a manuscript on the history of Siam, published by Turpin (Histoire civile et naturelle du royaume de Siam et des révolutions qui ont bouleversé cet empire jusqu'en 1770, Paris 1771), but with alterations against which the author protested. This work had two English translations, in 1811 and 1908.