Adrien Greslon

Adrien Greslon (1618 at Périgueux – 1697) was a French Jesuit missionary to China.

Greslon travelled to New France and Huronia where in December of 1649 he recovered the body of Charles Garnier, a fellow Jesuit slain in an Iroquois attack on the Huron village of Etharita.

He returned to Quebec in 1650 with the Hurons following the collapse of that nation due to the onslaught of Iroquois attacks of 1649.

[1] Arriving in 1657, and after mastering the Chinese and Manchu languages went to the Province of Jiangxi, which he described as a veritable Garden of Eden.

Greslon wrote two books: Les vies des saints patriarches de l'Ancien Testament, with reflections in Chinese; and Histoire de la Chine sous la domination des Tartares ... depuis l'année 16 ... jusqu'en 1669 (Paris, 1671).