LUQUET, JEAN-FÉLIX-ONÉSIME. — Born on 17 June 1810 at Langres (Haute-Marne). He was first in his class at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he lost his faith; after his return to God he entered the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice and then, on 19 July 1841, the Seminary of the Foreign Missions in Paris.
Ordained priest on 21 May 1842, he left on 21 December of the same year for the mission at Pondichéry. In 1845 he was sent by his bishop, Mgr. C. Bonnand, to Rome to present a memorandum on the establishment of a hierarchy in India. In Rome he was appointed to accompany Mgr. Bonnand, but the appointment was unpopular in India, and in 1851 Luquet was obliged to resign and retired to the French Seminary in Rome, where he devoted himself to writing books of piety and on missions. He was a staunch promoter of the indigenous clergy. Died in Rome on 3 September 1858.