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d'Evreux Yves

b. 1570

A French Capuchin friar and early travel writer, he is remembered for a vivid account of northern Brazil during the short-lived French mission of 1613–1614. His work is still valued as a rare firsthand window into colonial Brazil and Indigenous life at the start of the seventeenth century.

2 Audiobooks

Voyage dans le nord du Brésil fait durant les années 1613 et 1614

Voyage dans le nord du Brésil fait durant les années 1613 et 1614

by d'Evreux Yves

Viagem ao norte do Brazil feita nos annos 1613 a 1614, pelo Padre Ivo D'Evreux

Viagem ao norte do Brazil feita nos annos 1613 a 1614, pelo Padre Ivo D'Evreux

by d'Evreux Yves

About the author

Born around 1570, Yves d'Évreux was a French Capuchin missionary and author. He took part in the French expedition to Maranhão in northern Brazil and later wrote about what he saw there.

His best-known work, Voyage dans le nord du Brésil, describes the land, its peoples, and the French colonial effort during the years 1613 and 1614. Because it comes from an eyewitness, the book remains an important historical source for the early history of Brazil.

Little about his personal life is firmly established beyond his religious role and his writing. Even so, his surviving account has given him a lasting place among early modern chroniclers of the Americas.