Trouvé, Claude

Trouvé, Claude

Beginning in 1668, Trouvé was the director of the Quinte mission. After 12 years, the mission was branded a failure due to their relatively small impact on the community and low conversion rate compared to their output of effort and money. In 1680 Trouvé was appointed as the director of and sent to La Montagne for a new mission. The aim of the mission was to Christianize the Indigenous population of the area. He was also placed in charge of the nuns of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame. He remained in this position for a year, returning to France in autumn of 1681 upon his ill fathers wishes.

1680-1681

Person

La Montagne, New France

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1644

Touraine, France

1704

Fort Chedabouctou

Sulpician Missionary

French

Claude Trouvé was born in the province of Touraine, France. Trouvé was a Christian, and studied theology from a young age at the Sulpician seminary in Paris. In 1668, at the age of 24, he had priesthood conferred upon him , and soon after, at the request of members of the Cayuga tribe, was sent to Quinte, New France as a Sulpician missionary in June 1668. Trouvé moved throughout New France as a missionary, eventually ending up in Beaubassin. Fleeing from English attacks , Trouvé died from exhaustion in late 1704 in Fort Chedabouctou.

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