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The spirit of the explorers of what is now Canada and the United States, Champlain, Jacques Marquette, Louis Jolliet, and de La Salle are all familure to me from my Catholic school days.
Archive 2007-12-16 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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The spirit of the explorers of what is now Canada and the United States, Champlain, Jacques Marquette, Louis Jolliet, and de La Salle are all familure to me from my Catholic school days.
Jeanne Mance de Brantigny........................ 2007
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Perrot and Louis Jolliet, the noted explorers and rangers of the West.
Canada J. G. Bourinot
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There was Louis Jolliet, who had studied for the Jesuit priesthood but turned fur trader among the tribes of Lake Michigan.
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Louis Jolliet married and settled down on his seigniory of Anticosti Island.
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{130} The two Frenchmen were Louis Jolliet, yet in his early twenties, to become famous as an explorer of the Mississippi, and one Monsieur Jean
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One of the last but not the least of the explorations made under Talon's auspices was that which he entrusted to Louis Jolliet, and which resulted in the discovery of the upper Mississippi.
The Great Intendant : A chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada, 1665-1672 Thomas Chapais 1902
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Two promising youths, Louis Jolliet and Pierre de Francheville, won universal praise on that occasion; and Talon himself, who had been accustomed in France to such scholastic exercises, took part in it very pertinently, to the great delight of all present.
The Great Intendant : A chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada, 1665-1672 Thomas Chapais 1902
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Louis Jolliet to find and explore the Mississippi, of which so much had been heard from missionaries, traders, and Indians.
The Jesuit Missions : A chronicle of the cross in the wilderness Thomas Guthrie Marquis 1900
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Count Frontenac, the governor of Canada, thought the matter of sufficient importance to send Louis Jolliet with an outfit to join the missionary in searching for the stream.
Heroes of the Middle West The French Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874
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