MAREUIL, PIERRE DE, priest, Jesuit, missionary; b. 29 June 1672
at Bourges, France; d. 19 April 1742 in Paris. After studying at
the Jesuit college in Bourges, Pierre de Mareuil entered the
noviciate of the Jesuits of the province of France in Paris on 8
Sept. 1692. He finished his education in letters at the Collège
Louis-le-Grand in Paris, then taught classes in grammar and
humanities at the Jesuit college in Caen from 1695 to 1701.
After teaching classics at the Collège Louis-le-Grand for a
year, he began his four years of theology there. When his last
probationary year was finished, in 1707, he sailed for Quebec.
Pierre de Mareuil spent about six years in New France, and one
in captivity at Albany, New York. On arrival he was sent among
the Onondagas to help Father Jacques de Lamberville*. The
Jesuits were still in the Iroquois territory, in spite of New
York’s claim to exclusive control of the area and despite the
laws passed by the New York legislature against Catholic
propaganda among the Indians. This