Huc, Evariste

REGIS, ABBÉ, ( hook,) a French mi ionary priest, B. at Toulouse, 1813. After being ordained, he embarked in 1839 for China, arrived at Macao, and entered upon the functions of a former mi ionary, who had been put to death. For five years he travelled throughout China and Tartary, and at length took up a residence in a Buddhist monastery, to study the language and literature of Buddhism. Commanded by the emperor of China to return, he travelled back to Macao, and embarked there, in 1852, for France, but stopped at Ceylon, whence he wandered through India, Egypt, and Palestine. On his return to France, at the beginning of 1853, he collated and arranged his notes of travel, and published Annals of the Propagation of the Faith in China; Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China; The Chinese Empire and Christianity in China, -all of which became very popular, and were translated into most of the European languages. Several of his works have been reproduced in an English form, and have attracted considerable attention. D. 1860.