Raymond Breton was a French Dominican missionary active in the Caribbean in the mid seventeenth century. He was among the first Europeans to live on the island of Guadeloupe and spent ten years preaching to the Indigenous Kalinago (or Island Carib) people of Dominica before returning to France in 1654. This dictionary was published by Breton in 1665 to assist future French missions in the West Indies. It provides a description and vocabulary of a language that Breton believed was Carib (the language of the Kalinago people), however it is more likely that the language he described was the language spoken by the Taíno people, a related Indigenous group in the region, though with many Carib loan-words.