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Nicolas Perrot (c. 1644 –1717), a French explorer, fur trader, and diplomat, was one of the first European men to travel in the Upper Mississippi Valley, in what is now Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Nicolas Perrot was a French fur trader, North American colonial official, and explorer. Perrot immigrated to New France (Canada) as a youth, and his services there under the Jesuits and Sulpicians enabled him to learn Indian languages and native cultures.
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Nicolas Perrot was a great explorer. Although he gave four governors of New France ample proof of his talents as a negotiator and diplomat, they did not hesitate to send him back to his lands, and to a poverty due in part to his own lack of self-interest. Born in France between 1641 and 1644, perhaps in Darcey, in Burgundy, where his father was ...
Explorer and fur trader, Nicolas Perrot, came to Wisconsin in the 17th century and claimed much of the region for France. Living among various Indian tribes near present-day Green Bay, Perrot built a string of posts along the Mississippi River and effectively helped to curb the power of the Iroquois against the French.
Nicolas Perrot (1643 probablement à Ménétreux-le-Pitois, France - 13 août 1717 à Bécancour, Nouvelle-France [1]) est un explorateur, interprète (truchement), diplomate et commerçant en fourrures en Nouvelle-France. Il est l’un des premiers européens dans la haute vallée du Mississippi.
As a French government agent beginning in 1683 and commandant for Green Bay in 1685, Perrot built numerous posts on the upper Mississippi River, claiming possession of the region and the Sioux country for France, and serving as an effective mediator in trade negotiations between the French and Indians.
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Nicolas Perrot (1644–1717), explorer, diplomat, and fur trader, was one of the first white men in the Upper Mississippi Valley. Statute of Nicolas Perrot (far right) in front of historic Brown County Courthouse, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Map showing Nicolas Perrot’s travels and where he helped establish forts. Nicolas Perrot and his men founded ...
