MEMOIR.
Isaac Jogttes •was bom at Orleans, in France^ on the tenth of January, 1607, and his family still enjoys the esteem of his native city. Educated in a Jesuit college but lately opened there, his tender piety, his wonderful love of the Cross, or, in less ascetio language, of sufferings, and a desire of pouring out his blood in attempting to convert the heathen to the Faith of Christ, induced him, towards the close of his studies, to ask to be enrolled among the members of the celebrated Society which had directed his education. Admitted to the Rouen novitiate in 1624, he was sent, after the two years of seclusion and prayer which usher in the religious life, to Paris to continue his literary studies. In 1629, he began his career as a teacher, and for four years attracted universal admiration by his able scholarship and ability in the direction of youth. The following letter in its latinity would do credit to a scholar writing in the quiet -of his study; and. other monuments are extant to show how easily he might have grasped at literary fame. He sighed, however, for the missions; and it was with joy that he received a summons to repair to the Clermont College, at Paris, to prepare, by the study of divinity, for the order of priesthood, which would enable him to set out for that field which he had ever ardently desired.
In 1636, after four years' study, he was ordained priest, and ordered to prepare for immediate embarkation to Canada, to which, when all chance of the European mission was cut off, his longings had been turned. After bidding farewell to his mother and family, he set sail from Dieppe with Father Gamier and Father Chatelain, and after a stormy voyage reached Miscou, A little island at the entrance of Chaleurs Bay, where the Jesuits then had a missionary station. Here he landed; but after a short stay proceeded to Que^ bee, and arrived in the city on the 2d of July: his two companions