Chrestien Le Clercq
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Chrestien Le Clercq
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Chrestien Le Clercq, O.M.R., was a Recollect Franciscan friar and missionary to the Mi'kmaq on the Gaspé peninsula of Canada in the mid-17th century. He was a chronicler of New France, who wrote two early histories, and translator of a Native American language of that region, adapting an apparently indigenous mnemonic glyph system into a writing system known as Míkmaq hieroglyphic writing.
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French writing system inventor
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2023-12-05T02:10:54Z
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