HUC, EVARISTE-RÉGIS. - Missionary, traveler, and writer, born in Caylus (France) on 1 June 1813, he was admitted to the Congregation of the Mission in 1836 and took his vows in 1838. For 17 years (1853), he worked with zeal and initiative within the Vincentian family. He died in Paris on 25 March 1860. Having gone to China from 1844 to 1846 with his confrere Giuseppe Gabet (1808–53), he undertook a journey into Tibet in an attempt to establish a mission among the Tartars.
The recollections of this expedition, which became celebrated and widely popular in missionary literature, were recorded by him in several volumes: *Souvenirs d'un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Tibet et la Chine* (2 vols.), Paris 1850, latest edition by J. M. Planchet, Peking 1924, and by H. d'Ardenne de Tizac, Paris 1925; *L'empire chinois* (continuation of the preceding work, 2 vols.), ibid. 1854, awarded by the French Academy (latest edition by J. Planchet, Peking 1925); *Les quarante-deux points d'enseignement professés par Bouddha*, translated from Mongolian in collaboration with Gabet and published by the latter in the *Annales de philosophie chrétienne* (April–May 1850); *Le christianisme au Tibet, en Tartarie et en Chine* (4 vols.), Paris 1857.