Charles Dellon

Charles Gabriel Dellon, also known as Gabriel Dellon, was a 17th-century French physician and writer, mostly known for his work Relation de l'Inquisition de Goa published in 1687. Dellon traveled widely during his life. Aged 17, he embarked in Port-Louis as second surgeon on board the ship La Force.

Quotes

• The most filthy, dismal, and hideous of all I ever witnessed, and I doubt if there can be any other in the world more repulsive. Another particularly odious Edict of Faith was the obligation of Goa’s citizens to spy on behalf of the Inquisition. [Its] infamy never reached greater depths, nor was more vile, more black, and more completely determined by mundane interests than at the Tribunal of Goa, by irony called the Holy Office. Here the Inquisitors went to the length of imprisoning in its jails women who resisted their advances, and after having satisfied their bestial instincts there, ordering that they be burnt as heretics.
  • (A India Portuguesa, Vol.11, Nova Goa, 1923, p.263) attributed at [1]