How to Pronounce Évariste Régis Huc
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Aug 01, 1813 Caylus, Occitania, France Died on 25 Mar 1860 (aged 46)
French Catholic missionary, one of the earliest explorers of Tibet
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About Évariste Régis Huc
- Évariste Régis Huc, C.M., also known as the Abbé Huc (1813–1860), was a French Catholic priest, Lazarite missionary, and traveller.
- He became famous for his accounts of Qing-era China, Mongolia (then known as "Tartary"), and especially the then-almost-unknown Tibet in his book Remembrances of a Journey in Tartary, Tibet, and China.
- He and his companion Joseph Gabet were the first Europeans who had reached Lhasa since Thomas Manning in 1812.
