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Jean de Breboeuf, a priest of the Jesuit Order, came to Canada / as a missionary to the Indians about the year 1625. He belonged / to an old and honourable French family that had given many sons / to the army, and was a man of great physical strength, one who / possessed an iron will, that was yet combined with sweetness / and gentleness of temper.
He lived with the Indians for many years, and spoke the dialects / of different tribes, though his mission was chiefly to the Hurons. / By them he was much beloved.