polemical than the Memoir es of father d'Avrigny. of which it is a kind of continuation: but the historical part of it is weak, and the bibliography i- incompli te : Essai historique surVInfiuena d< la Religion ■ pendant A dix-sq ibid. 1824,2 vols. 8vo).
lie is the chiel contributor to the collection of the .'/. - langes i 9 vols. 8vo i, commenced by the abb,- Boulogne; and In edited in 1827 the works of thai prelate, adding to the same a Tablniu riliniiu.r >h hi France sous le Directoire, and a Precis historique sur VEglisi consiilu- tionnelle. He wrote a number of articles in the Journal des Cures, in the Supplement au Did. historiqut of Feller, thi Bio raphii Universelle of Michaud, etc. He be- queathed part of bis rich library to the seminary of Saint-Sulpice. — Hoefcr, Nouv. Biog. Generate, xl, 85.
Picot, Pierre, a Swiss prea< her, was born in 1746 at Geneva, lie descended from Xnola- Picot, who left Noyon in company with Calvin, his friend, to settle in Geneva. His studies being finished, he visited France, Holland, and England; and connected himself with Franklin, who vainly urged him to accompany Cook in his second voyage around the world. After having served for ten years the Church of Sattigny, be was attached to that of Geneva (1783), and there received in 17*7 the title of honorary professor of theology. He died iii Geneva March 28, 1822. We have of his works, /)« multiplied montium utilitatt (Geneva, 1790, 8vo): tiie Elogi historiqut dt J. A. Mallet-Favre, in the Guide astronomiqut of Lalande (1771): and some Sermons (ibid. 1823, 8vo), remarkable for their harmony of style. See I lablic etc., Biog. univ, etportat. th s < 'ontt mp. .- I [aag 1'n n-. /.■/ r, a,,,; Protestante, s. v.— Hoefcr. Nouv. Biog. Generale, xl, 83.
Picot, Victor Maria, a French engraver, was bom at Abbeville in 1711. About the year 177n be went to London, where he engaged in business. He died in L805. Nagler gives a li-t of thirty-six prints by him, among which i> Thi Four Evangelists, after Rubens. See >) t. Biog, Hist, of thi Fint Arts, ii. 693.
Picquet, Francois (1), a French prelate, was born al Lyons April 1 -. 1626. The son ofa hatiker.be was destined to a commercial career, and travelled in France, Italy, and England. As be bad thus become associated with several influential Parisians, be was in 1652 appointed to the consulship of France at Ueppo; and, although be was only twenty-sis years of age, be was so successful in the discharge of his duties that the
Dutch republic intrusted him with her own representa- tion in the same city. Although a layman, be displayed extraordinary zeal for the promotion of the missionary work. He received the tonsure in L660 al the hands of Andre", archbishop of Syria, w ho was indebted to him for his elevation. Two years afterwards he resigned the consulship and went to Koine, to give to pop. Alex- ander \ II an account of the stale of religion in Syria. When le returned to franc he received orders, was appointed prior of Grimand (Provence), and (1663) apostolic protonotarius. He was proposed in 1674 lor the apo tolic vicarate of Babylon, and became in 1675 bishop in partibus of Csesaropolis, in Macedonia. In 1679 he embarked for Aleppo with the cheva vieux, the new French consul, endeavored with unre- lenting /e.d to revive the faith of the Catholics, and started in May. 1681, as ambassador of the courts of
Franc; and Rome in Persia, with a view of working for
the restoration and expansion of the Catholic faith.
He arrived at Ispahan July 12, 1682, and soon after-
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wards witnessed the celebrations in that city in honor of the passage of the khan of the Tartars, Usbeck, who was on his way to Mecca. He was granted an audi- ence, harangued the khan in Italian, and obtained a promise of protection for the Roman Catholics of his lands. Towards the close of 1683 he took the same prince rich presents from the king of France, and trans- mitted to his sovereign the answer and presents of the Persian sovereign. That same year he was appointed bishop of Babylon, and he had arrived at Hamadan, when his impaired health compelled him to stop several months in that city, where he died, Aug. 26, 1685, after writing to the Congregation of the Propaganda for a coadjutor. A special honor was conferred on him by his burial in the church of the Armenians. Picquet furnished to Nicole several important documents for his work on the perpetuity of the faith of the Church in re- gard to the Eucharist.— Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen. xl, 87.
Picquet, Francois (2), a French missionary, was born at Bourg (in Bresse) Dec. 6, 1708. He took holy orders, and for a time preached in the diocese of Lyons, but finally entered the Congregation of St. Sulpice, and in 1735 was by it sent to Montreal, to share in the work of the North American missions. Towards 1740 he settled north of that city, near the lake of Two Mountains, where he constructed a fort with the money sent for that purpose by Louis XV, and by requisitions. With the aid of this fort he succeeded in keeping sedentary two roaming tribes, the Algonquins and Nipissings, who took to agriculture. He induced them, as well as the Trokas and Hurons, to submit to France; and during the war of 1742 to 1748, Picquet's measures for the safe- ty of his colony were so effective that it remained un- touched by English invasion. Peace being restored, he founded in 1749 a new mission near Lake Ontario, and called it La Presentation ; the point occupied by it is the same where the English afterwards founded Kings- ton. In 1753 he arrived at Paris, and reported to the minister of the marine as to the flourishing state of the colony, which counted already no less than five hundred families. In the war that broke out soon afterwards, he put himself at the head of the Indians which he had trained, destroyed all English l'orts south of Ontario, and contributed to the defeat of general Braddock. After the defeat of Quebec (1759), Picquet determined to return to France by way of Louisiana. He started with twenty-five Frenchmen and two small troops of savages, which were successively relieved by others in the tribes he met; traversed Upper Canada, reached Michilimakinac, crossed Michigan, and by the Illinois and the Mississippi rivers went to New Orleans, where he spent twenty-two months. The English had offer- ed a reward for his head. Picquet had never received any reward, except a bounty of a thousand dollars and some books in 1751. The books he had to sell to enable him to return to France, and he was compelled to live on his scanty inheritance until the assembly of the clergy of France in 1765 presented him a bounty of twelve hundred pounds, which they gave him a second time in 1770. In 1777 he undertook a journey to Rome, where Pius VI, to honor his merits, paid all his expenses, and made him a present of five thousand pounds. Picquet came home to die at Verjou, near Bourg. the house of his sister, a poor peasant-woman, July 15, 1781.— Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generate, xl, 87.