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French Jesuit missionary

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Born around in Amiens, Picardy, Jean de Quen was about 17 years old when he joined the Jesuits.

De Quen, Rev. Father Jean, of the Province of France; born at Amiens in May, (al.

Père Jean de Quen was a priest, Jesuit, missionary, discoverer of Lac Saint-Jean, founder of the Saguenay missions, superior of the missions of the Jesuits of.

Over years from the foundation of the Society of Jesus to the Jesuits of Canada.

With the release of Canada to France, in , the Jesuits were by the home authorities placed in sale charge of the spiritual interests of both settlers and.

Not to be confused with Queen.

Jean de Quen (May c. 1603 in Amiens, France – 8 October 1659, in Quebec City) was a FrenchJesuit missionary, priest and historian. As head of Jesuit missions of New France, he founded the missions to Saguenay.

In 1647, Jean de Quen was the first European to reach the shores of Piékouagami (Lac Saint-Jean).^[1]

Early life

Born c. 1603, in Amiens, Picardie, Jean de Quen was about 17-years-old when he joined the Jesuits on 13 September 1620.

He taught for three years at the Collège in Eu, and then left for New France.

This dissertation examines the dynamic life of a book series known as the Jesuit Relations over the course of four centuries.

He arrived at Quebec on 17 August 1635,^[2] where he taught at the College of Quebec, which opened that same year for French and First Nations boys. He taught there for two years before joining the Sillery mission, an initiative aimed at educating the native peoples.

He later left the mission and went back to Quebec to minister to the pari