Jean-André Cuoq

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Jean-André Cuoq, (b. Le Puy-en-Velay, France, 1821; d. in Oka, Quebec, 1898) was a philologist. He entered the Company of Saint-Sulpice in 1844, and two years later was sent to Canada. In 1847 he was put in charge of the mission at the Lac des Deux-Montagnes. In the fulfilment of the duties of his ministry, he acquired a perfect knowledge of the Iroquois and the Algonquin languages. His numerous works, all published in Montreal, gained him admission to many scientific societies of Europe and America.

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  • "Le Livre des sept nations" (1861);
  • "Jugement erroné de M. Ernest Renan sur les langues sauvages" (1864);
  • "Etudes philosophiques sur quelques langues sauvages" (1866);
  • "Quels étaient les sauvages que rencontra Jacques Cartier sur les rives du S.-Laurent?" in Annales de philosophie chrétienne (1869);
  • "Lexique de la langue iroquoise" (1882);
  • "Lexique de la langue algonquine" (1886);
  • "Grammaire de la langue algonquine, insérée dans les mémoires [IX-X] de la société royale du Canada" (1891-92);
  • "Anoct Kekon" (ibid., 1893);
  • "Nouveau manuel algonquin" (1893).

He wrote also many other works destined to further the christianization of Native Americans.

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