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