DUBOIS, JEAN-ANTOINE. — Born on 10 January 1766 at St-Remèze. He entered the seminary of the Foreign Missions in Paris and was ordained priest in 1791. On 29 January 1792 he departed for Malabar (India). After a brief stay in Salem, he was sent in 1792 to Mysore, where he brought back to the faith many who had apostatized and also promoted vaccination.
During this period he wrote his work Moeurs, institutions et cérémonies des peuples de l'Inde, which was first published in English (London 1817), then in French (Paris 1825) and in Spanish (1829) and went through many editions. Returning to Paris, in 1819 he published the Letters on the state of Christianity in India (London 1832), which provoked a strong reaction among Protestant circles. He died in Paris on 17 February 1848.