Francis Bennon Ducrue was a missionary in Mexico, b. in Munich, Bavaria, of French parents, 10 June 1721; d. there 30 March 1779.
Ducrue became a member of the Society of Jesus in 1738, and ten years later was sent to California, where he worked until the expulsion of the order in 1767.
The Jesuits withdrew, taking with them only their clothes and a few books; these were the belongings they carried away from California after seventy years of work in its missions.
Ducrue wrote A Journey from California through the district of Mexico to Europe in the year 1767 in Latin.
XII, p. 217-276), and was translated into French and published by Auguste Carayon in his Documents Inédits (Paris, 1876).