CRESPIEUL (CRÉPIEUL), FRANÇOIS. - Missionary in Canada, b. at Arras on 17 March 1638, entered the Society of Jesus at Tournai on 29 Oct. 1658, and went to the mission in 1670. From Oct. 1671 until 1699 he carried out his work in the mission of Tadoussac, among the Algonquin and Montagnais Indians; in 1696 or 1697 he was appointed vicar apostolic for the Montagnais. Then, forced by age and hardship to leave this extremely arduous mission, he was prefect of studies at the college of Québec (1700), where he died at the end of 1702.

Fragments of his mission diary are published in the Relations de la Nouvelle France of 1671-72 (Thwaites, Jesuit Relations, LVI, pp. 70-89, etc.); and of the Remarques sur la mission de Tadoussac (ibid., LXIII, pp. 248-67). Particularly interesting is a short piece of personal experience: La vie d'un missionnaire montagnais, présentée aux successeurs montagnais, pour leur instruction et consolation (Chicoutimy 1697), published in Thwaites, op. cit., LXV, pp. 42-49.

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BIBL.: Streit, Bibl., II, p. 862; C. De Rochemonteis, Les Ténitres et la Nouvelle-France au XVIIe siècle, III, Paris 1896, pp. 412-32; R. G. Thwaites, Jesuit Relations and allied Documents, Cleveland 1897-1901, passim.; T. J. Campbell, Pioneer Priests of North America, III, New York 1911, pp. 184-94. Edmondo Lamalle

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