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Pierre Yves d’Évreux (c. 1577–c. 1620)

Yves d’Évreux, Pierre (ēv dā-vrė’). A French-Brazilian historian; born at Evreux, Normandy, about 1577; died after 1620. He was a Capuchin missionary at Maranhão, Brazil, 1612–14. He wrote: ‘History of the Most Memorable Things that Happened at Maranhão in the Years 1613 and 1614’ (Paris, 1615), a continuation of the history of Claude d’Abbeville; it is a work of great historical value.