Career

In 1633 he joined the Dutch army where he worked in the headquarters in Maastricht. In 1640 he was sent as missionary to the Antilles from where he returned to France in 1658. He is the author of several works about the Antilles where he described the indigenous peoples, the animals, and the plant world, including Histoire générale des îles Saint-Christophe, de la Guadeloupe, de la Martinique et autres de l"Amérique (Paris, 1654), Histoire naturelle et morale des îles Antilles de l"Amérique avec un vocabulaire caraïbe (1658), Louisiana Vie de Sainte Austreberte (1659) and l’Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les Français (four volumes, 1667 – 1671).

Du Tertre was the first who described the yellow fever when several epidemics burst over Guadeloupe and Saint Christopher in 1635, 1640, 1648 and 1667.

Maurice Boubier (1925). L’Évolution de l’ornithologie.

Librairie Félix Alcan (Paris), college Nouvelle collection scientifique: ii + 308 p.