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In 1673 Marquette along with Louis Jolliet an explorer born near Quebec City explored and mapped the northern portion of the Mississippi River Valley

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Jacques Marquette born June 1 1637 Laon Fr died May 18 1675 Ludington Mich was a French Jesuit missionary explorer who with Louis Jolliet travelled down the Mississippi River

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He founded missions in present day Michigan and later joined explorer Louis Joliet on an expedition to discover and map the Mississippi River Marquette was born in Laon France on June 1

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Leading the expedition were two men whose names are fixtures in the early history of the western Great Lakes states and Mississippi Valley the Canadian born fur trader Louis Jolliet and Jesuit missionary

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Father Jacques Marquette proficient in five American Indian languages was assigned to accompany Jolliet Marquette had arrived in Canada in 1666 and had been placed in charge of the Jesuit mission

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Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette discovered and explored the Mississippi River opening up a century and a half of French exploration and commerce and another century and a half of American

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In this succinct dual biography Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers Jacques Marquette a Jesuit missionary and Louis Jolliet a fur trapper reveal the diverse world

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In 1673 Father Jacques Marquette a Jesuit missionary and Louis Joliet or Jolliet a fur trader undertook an expedition to explore the unsettled territory in North America from the Great

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Louis Jolliet was a French Canadian explorer and cartographer who with Father Jacques Marquette was the first white man to traverse the Mississippi River from its confluence with the Wisconsin to the