Jesuits, Huguenots, and the Apocalypse: The Origins of America's First French Book.

This essay considers the first French book in North America, printed in Boston in May 1690. The tract Echantillon de la Doctrine que les Jésuites enségnent aus Sauvages du Nouveau Monde ['A Sample of the Doctrine that the Jesuits teach to the Savages of the New World'], was composed by the Huguenot minister Ezechiel Carré. A preface by Cotton Mather endorses the work, an exposé of the techniques used by Jesuits in New France to convert Native Americans to Christianity.