Évariste Régis Huc, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French Catholic missionary, one of the earliest explorers of Tibet
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Place of Birth: Caylus, Occitania, France
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.
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