Hippolyte Roussel (22 March 1824 in La Ferté-Macé – 22 January 1898 in Gambier Islands)[1] was a French priest and missionary to Polynesia, a member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
He was removed from his post in Mangareva because of his "strident pronouncements", and in 1866 was appointed to lead a new mission to Easter Island, with Eugène Eyraud, who died shortly thereafter.
[2] During his stay on Easter Island, he compiled notes on the customs and traditions of the islanders, which he sent to Valparaíso in 1869 and which were published in April and June 1926 in the Annals of the Sacred Hearts of Picpus.
[3] He went to Rikitea on Mangareva with 168 Rapanui, and led the mission there until his death in 1898.
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