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Jean Antoine Dubois <ref name="term_37706" /> 
<p> a French missionary, one of the directors of the seminary of foreign missions, member of the Asiatic societies of [[Paris]] and London, and of the Literary [[Society]] of Madras, was born in 1765 at St. Remeze (Ardeche). About 1791 he went to [[Mysore]] to preach Christianity, his principal residence being at Pettah, near Seringapatam. After thirty-two years of sojourn in India, he returned to [[Europe]] with the strong conviction that in the actual state of affairs the conversion of the Hindus was impossible. This opinion, which he advanced in his [[Letters]] on the State of [[Christianity]] in [[India]] (Lond. 1823), became in [[England]] the object of very lively. attacks. He died at Paris, February 7, 1848. For the list of Dubois' other writings, see Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. </p>
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<ref name="term_37706"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/dubois,+jean+antoine Jean Antoine Dubois from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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