Auguste Carayon (31 March 1813 – 15 May 1874) was a French Jesuit author and bibliographer.
Carayon was born in Saumur, France in 1813; he joined the Society of Jesus in 1848, and was at various times librarian and procurator.
a leading authority upon the history of his order, especially in New France, the area colonized by France in North America.
His principal works were: He was also the author of several devotional treatises published between 1854 and 1863.
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