Charles de rochefort (d. 1690) was a French Huguenot resident of Holland. His work is criticized by the Catholic missionary writer Du Tertre, who accuses him of plagiarism and of mocking the church. Du Tertre, for instance, disputes Rochefort's account of a noble Carib who converted to Christianity in Paris and reverted to his old ways on returning home. Certainly, Rochefort's viewpoint is more secular than that of Du Tertre or Biet. He claims that he wants “to make a certain parallel between the Morality of our Caribians, and that of divers other yet Barbarous Nations” (sig. [A4]), and there is a great deal of cultural relativism in the work, refusing the Caribs the simple status of Other. For example, Rochefort discusses the differing cultural norms of beauty and differing cultural attitudes toward nakedness. After deploring the cannibalism of the Native Americans, he points out that they are, relatively speaking, restrained in their use of the practice. He does not, in fact, confine himself to comparing the Caribs with other “Barbarous Nations,” but occasionally brings European cultural or religious norms into question; indeed, he claims that the Caribs have been corrupted by the example of the Europeans, who break promises, burn and pillage their houses, and ravish their wives and daughters (270). In the Caribbean (as in Europe) women stay at home and do the housework, but this was not the practice in Peru or ancient Egypt (295).