Background
He was born at Clermont-Ferrand, entered the Society of Jesus in 1653, and came to Canada in 1663.
He was born at Clermont-Ferrand, entered the Society of Jesus in 1653, and came to Canada in 1663.
In 1668 he established near Montreal a settlement for converted Iroquois (now Caughnawaga). In 1671 he replaced Étienne de Carheil in the Cayuga mission, and afterwards went to the Seneca Indians until 1680. Raffeix was a cartographer, as the following surviving maps bear witness:
"Carte des regions les plus occidentales du Canada", dated 1676, and bearing a legend relating to the voyage of discovery of Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet;
"Le lac Ontario avec les pays adjacents et surtout les cinq nations iroquoises";
"Louisiana Nouvelle-France, de l"Océan au lac Erié, et, au sud, jusqu"à la Nouvelle-Angleterre".
After his return to Quebec he acted as procurator to the mission.
He spent two years at Jeune-Lorette (1699–1700), shortly after the final migration of the remnants of the Huron nation. He died at Quebec.