Jean Crasset [SEP] place of death
Jean Crasset
Jean Crasset (b. at Dieppe, France, 3 January 1618; d. at Paris, 4 January 1692) was a French Jesuit theologian, known as an ascetical writer.
Life.
He entered the Society of Jesus in 1638, and became professor of humanities and philosophy. He was director for twenty-three years of a famous sodality of men connected with the professed house of the Jesuits in Paris, and was also a successful preacher.
Works.
Crasset is the author of many ascetical
majority of its inhabitants are of Acadian descent.
History Notable people.
- Jean Ango (1480–1551), ship owner
- Jean Asselin (v. 1610–1652), painter and drawer
- Jean Cousin (15th century), navigator
- Jean Crasset (1618–1692), writer
- François-Antoine-Henri Descroizilles (1751–1825), chemist
- Adrien De Pauger (?–?), engineer and architect of the Vieux Carré at New Orleans
- Pierre de Chauvin, sieur de Tonnetuit (1575–1603)