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Claude d'Abbeville
French explorer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Claude d'Abbeville was a 17th-century French Franciscan friar who worked as a missionary with the Tupinambá in Maranhão, modern Brazil.[1] He was part of a colonizing party and a mission of four Franciscans sent under a 1611 patent letter from the Regent Marie de Médicis, and was also accompanied by Father Yves D'Evreux.[2][3]
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