Auteur: Evariste Regis Huc

Évariste Régis Huc, C.M., (1813–1860), was a French Catholic priest, missionary, and traveler. He became famous for his accounts of Qing-era China, Mongolia (then known as « Tartary »). Yet his most important achievement for the time was the exploration of then-almost-unknown Tibet. He summed up his journey in his book Remembrances of a Journey in Tartary, Tibet, and China. It is remarkable, that he and his companion Joseph Gabet were the first Europeans who had reached Lhasa since Thomas Manning in 1812.