Storia do Mogor 369.2

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Pierre Parisot was born at Bar-le-Duc, in Lorraine, on March 8, 1697. After attending a Jesuit school he became a Capuchin novice on April 13, 1716. In 1734 he proceeded to Rome, and became Procurator-General of the 'Missions Étrangères.' About 1736 he was sent to India to the Pondicherry mission, where he took an active part at the side of Claude Visdelou, Bishop of Claudiopolis, in the still continuing dispute between the Jesuits and his own order. After the death of Visdelou in 1739, he returned to Europe to represent the Capuchin case and was well received by Benedict XIV. The Jesuits were roused to action. Norbert was alarmed, and removed to Lucca, where he found a protector, and brought out his book 'Mémoires Utiles . . .' (1742). From that time he remained more or less a wanderer. From Lucca he went to Venice, from Venice to Holland by sea. Thence he moved to London, and finally was employed at Lisbon by the Marquis Pombal, then engaged in his campaign against the Jesuit order. A final edition of Norbert's second book 'Mémoires Historiques,' was brought out there in the year 1766 in eight volumes, quarto. In 1759, with the Pope's consent, Norbert had resigned his monastic orders, and thenceforth was known as the Abbé Curel Platel (or perhaps that was his real family name). He returned to Lorraine, and died there in poverty on July 7, 1769 ('Biographie Universelle,' Michaud, Paris, 1822, vol. xxxi., p. 360, article by W[eis]s).