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Louis Jolliet (September 21, 1645 – last seen May 1700) was a French-Canadian explorer. He was known for his discoveries in North America . [1] Jolliet and Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette , a Catholic priest and missionary , were the first non-Natives to explore and map the Mississippi River in 1673.
The two explorers were an unlikely pair. Father Jacques Marquette was a studious Jesuit two weeks shy of his 36th birthday. His partner, Louis Joliet was a 27-year-old philosophy student who had become a fur trader. In two canoes paddled by five voyageurs, Marquette and Joliet left St. Ignace, at the head of Lake Michigan, on May 17, 1673.
See more Encyclopedia articles on: Explorers, Travelers, and Conquerors: Biographies. Jolliet or Joliet, Louis both: jōˈlēĕtˌ, jōˌlēĕtˈ, Fr. lwē zhôlyāˈ [key], 1645–1700, French explorer, joint discoverer with Jacques Marquette of the upper Mississippi River, b. Quebec prov., Canada. After a year's study of hydrography in.
Aug 2, 2023 · On May 17, 1673, Marquette and his friend Louis Joliet (also spelled "Jolliet"), a French-Canadian fur trader and explorer, were chosen to lead an expedition that included five men and two canoes ...
May 17, 2017 · Louis Jolliet was born in Beaupré, a French settlement near Quebec City, New France (today Canada), by the time a center of the French fur trade. His stepfather, a wealthy merchant, owned land on the Ile d’Orleans, an island in the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec that was home to First Nations, where Jolliet learned Aboriginal languages ...
JOLLIET, LOUIS, explorer, discoverer of the Mississippi, cartographer, king’s hydrographer, teacher at the Jesuit college at Quebec, organist, business man, and seigneur; baptized 21 Sept. 1645 at Quebec, son of Jean Jollyet, a wheelwright in the service of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, and of Marie d’Abancourt; d. 1700 in New France.
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