Évariste Régis Huc
French Catholic missionary, one of the earliest explorers of Tibet
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- 1813–1860
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About Évariste Régis Huc
Évariste Régis Huc, C.M., also known as the Abbé Huc was a French Catholic priest, Lazarite missionary, and traveller. He became famous for his accounts of Qing-era China, Mongolia, 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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