Akbar and the Jesuits (An Account of the Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar)

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FATHER Pierre du Jarric was born at Toulouse in 1566. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1582, with the intention of becoming one of the missionaries of the Order. This intention, owing to circumstances which were, apparently, beyond his control, he was never able to fulfil; and he spent the major portion of his life as professor of philosophy and moral theology at Bordeaux. He never ceased to regret his inability to engage in active missionary work; and his leisure and his pen were ungrudgingly devoted to the cause he had at heart. He died at Saintes in 1617, three years after the completion of third volume of his Hiftoire.

The following is the complete title of du Jarric's magnum opus:

Histoire des choses plus memorable advenes tant ez Indes Orientales, que autres pais de la descouuerte des Poringais, en l'establissement et progrez de la foy Chrestienne et Catholique: et principalement de ce que les Religieux de la Compagnie de Iesus y ont fait, & endure pour la mesme fin; depuis qu'ils y sont entrez jusques a l'an 1600. [Le tout recueilly des lettres, & autres.

Du Jarric's only other literary work was a translation from the Latin of The Soul's Paradise, by Albertus Magnus. It was entitled Le Paradise de l'ame ou Traite des Vertus compose en latin par Albert le Grand, et traduit en francois (par P. du Jarric, de la Compagnie de Iesus), and was published at Bordeaux in 1616 by S. Millanges.