Clerc, Christian Le

Clerc, Christian Le, a famous French missionary, who spent twelve years (from 1675 to 1687) in Canada, is the author of Premier Etablissement de la Foi dans !a Nouvelle France, etc. (Paris, 1691, 2 vols.): — Nouvelle Relation de la Gaspesie, etc. (1692). See Journal des Savants, 1691,1692; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.: Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 846. (B. P.)