Emanuel‐Eugène Mermet (de) Cachon

Japanese: メルメ･ド･カション（英語表記）Emanuel‐Eugène Mermet (de) Cachon

1828-70?
French missionary. His real name was Mermet Cachon, but in Japan he added the surname "de" to his name and went by Mermet de Cachon, and signed his name as Kazuharu. Born in a remote village in the Jura mountains, he joined the Paris Foreign Missions Society in 1852. He traveled to Japan in 1854 and learned Japanese in Naha, Okinawa, and came to Japan in 1858 (5th year of the Ansei era) as an interpreter for Baron Gros, the Japanese envoy to France. However, after the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Japan and France was concluded, he resigned due to disagreements with the first French envoy to France, Bellecourt. The following year, he traveled from Hong Kong to Shanghai, Nagasaki, and then to Hakodate, where he set up a priest's house in the Shomyoji temple and opened a private school where he taught French.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1828‐70？
フランス人宣教師。本名はメルメ･カションであるが，日本では姓にdeを入れメルメ･ド･カションと称し，また和春と署名した。ジュラ山中の寒村に生まれ，1852年パリ外国宣教会に入った。54年日本に向かい，沖縄の那覇で日本語を習得，58年(安政5)全権公使グロ男爵の通訳として来日したが，日仏通商条約締結後，初代フランス公使ベルクールと意見が合わず辞職した。翌59年香港から上海，長崎を経由して箱館へ渡り，称名寺内に司祭館を設け塾を開いてフランス語を教えた。

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