DUBOIS, JEAN ANTOINE (1765-1848), French Catholic missionary in India, was ordained in the diocese of Viviers in 1792, and sailed for India in the same year under the Missions Etrangeres. He at first worked in the southern districts of the present Madras presidency. On the fall of Seringapatam in he went to Mysore to reorganize the Christian community shat tered by Tipu Sultan. He benefited his impoverished flock by founding agricultural colonies and introducing vaccination as a preventive of smallpox. By his fervent desire to understand Hindu life, he gained an extraordinary welcome amongst all castes, and is still spoken of in many parts of south India with affection and esteem as "the prince's son, the noblest of Europeans." His great work, Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies (3rd ed., Oxford, 1906) gives a shrewd, clear-sighted, candid account of the manners and customs of the Hindus. Dubois left India in Jan. 1823, and on reaching Paris was appointed director of the Missions Etrangeres, of which he afterwards became superior (1836-39). He translated into French the famous book of Hindu fables called Pancliatantra, and also a work called The Exploits of the Guru Paramarta. He died on Feb. 17, 1848.