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	Marquette and Jolliet
		Jolliet was born near Québec City and raised in a Jesuit seminary.
		In 1672, Jolliet was named leader of an expedition that would explore the northern part of the Mississippi River the following year.
		Louis Jolliet died in 1700 at the age of 55.
	library.thinkquest.org /4034/marquettejolliet.html (306 words)

	National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
		Louis Jolliet was born at Beauport, near Quebec in 1645.
		Jolliet's expedition was to explore the great river, and Jolliet was granted a "conge" or trading license, which allowed him to trade with Indians to defray his costs.
		Jolliet was unconscious and was retrieved after four hours in the water, only to discover that he had lost all his papers including his journal and his map of the river.
	www.mississippirivermuseum.com /fame/jolliet.cfm (888 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
		Jolliet and his men took to their paddles once more, and pursued their journey, which was marked by two other important stages: they encountered first the Missouri and then the Ouabouskigou (Ohio), two stately rivers that flow into the Mississippi.
		Jolliet’s qualified opinion was the one adopted by Louis XIV in the ordinance of 24 May 1679, permitting traffic in spirits within the colony but forbidding it in the woods.
		Jolliet was to be the first to reveal the secret of this region that extended from the Saint John River (15 miles west of Mingan) to the present Zoar, situated at lat.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBioPrintable.asp?BioId=34427 (4047 words)

	Jolliet and Marquette - Expanding in All Directions - 17th Century - Pathfinders and Passageways
		Louis Jolliet was a rather unlucky explorer -- ; his journals and maps either disappeared in rivers or got burned up in fires.
		Jolliet returned from this voyage convinced that, in Hudson's Bay, the English had the best possible beaver-fur trade going, and discreetly suggested that the King prevent the English from setting themselves up any further as this could be disastrous for New France.
		Jolliet returned from this voyage but there is no trace of him for the three final years of his life.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /explorers/h24-1470-e.html (1330 words)

	Louis Joliet
		Louis Joliet, also known Louis Jolliet (September 21, 1645 - May 1700), was a Canadian explorer born in Quebec who is important for his discoveries in North America.
		He was taught at the Jesuit seminary but he left school in 1667 and set out for France.
		Louis Joliet died some time in the month of May, 1700, being lost on a trip to one of his land holdings.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lo/Louis_Joliet.html (97 words)

	Marquette and Jolliet - The Mississippi River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Jolliet himself had entered the Jesuit college in Quebec as a boy at the age of 10 but had abandoned the priesthood in 1667 in order to become a coureur de bois which, he felt, was much more a enticing and exciting career.
		Jolliet could speak 5 languages and was very comfortable living in the wilds.
		By 1671, Jolliet was back in Quebec where he met with intendant Jean Talon and convinced Talon of the importance of discoving whether or not the Mississippi River flowed into the Gulf of California as they hoped and not into the Gulf of Mexico as they feared.
	www3.sympatico.ca /goweezer/canada/z16jolliet1.htm (465 words)

	Louis Jolliet - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Jolliet, Louis, 1645-1700, French explorer, joint discoverer with Jacques Marquette of the upper Mississippi River, b.
		Marquette remained in the West while Jolliet went east to make his report, but in the Lachine Rapids, near Montreal, Jolliet's canoe overturned and his records were lost.
		Jolliet was rewarded with the gift of Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which was, however, seized by the British while Jolliet was absent on explorations in Labrador and around Hudson Bay.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Jolliet.html (432 words)

	Louis Jolliet Summary
		Jolliet's last important expedition was undertaken in 1694, when he charted the coast of Labrador far to the north but returned disappointed with the meager prospects for trade in the area.
		Jolliet switched careers from priest to fur trader and eventually to explorer when he accepted the leadership of an expedition to discover whether the Mississippi flowed south to the Gulf Coast or west to the Pacific Ocean.
		The son of a wagon maker, Louis Jolliet was baptised in Quebec, Canada, on September 21, 1645.
	www.bookrags.com /Louis_Jolliet (1383 words)

	Louis Jolliet - The Final Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Throughout his life, Louis Jolliet had gone from student Jesuit to coureur de bois to explorer of the Mississippi to merchant.
		Throughout the year, Jolliet travelled north to 56° latitude and returned to Quebec with the most complete and detailed maps of the coast to date.
		Jolliet realized, however, that trade along the coast would not be enough to warrant the cost involved.
	www3.sympatico.ca /goweezer/canada/z16jolliet4.htm (199 words)

	The Virtual Museum of New-France: Louis Jolliet
		Louis Jolliet (or Joliet) was born near Quebec, where he was christened on the twenty-first of September, 1645.
		Louis Jolliet was twenty-three years old when he decided on the career he wished to pursue.
		In 1685, a map of the St. Lawrence river and gulf drawn by Jolliet himself was despatched to the Ministry of the Colonies.
	www.civilization.ca /vmnf/explor/jolli_e2.html (1131 words)

	Louis Jolliet
		Louis Jolliet was born in French Canada in 1645, the third son of a Quebec wagonmaker and wheekwright.
		After three years, Jolliet left the Jesuits and began following in the footsteps of his older brother, Lucien, who was a successful trader and "voyageur." If Lucien had not disappeared on a mission through Iroquois territory, he, rather than Louis, would probably have been selected to lead the expedition to the Mississippi River.
		Jolliet's acclaim as an explorer was diminished somewhat when his records and maps were destroyed at the end of his trip.
	www.cityofjoliet.com /louisjolliet.htm (252 words)

	Movers: Enlightenment (Mid 1600s - Late 1700s) By Miles Hodges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Sadly however, Louis was a person of relatively weak will and was easily influenced in his policies by some of his strong-willed mistresses, notably Madame de Pompadour (after 1745) and Madame du Barry after the death of Mme de Pompadour in 1764.
		In the end, Louis understood the nature of the crisis growing up in France--exclaiming: "after me, the deluge." He suspected that some kind of horrible accounting for the French monarchy was fast moving in on the French political scene.
		Louis was the second son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, given the title of Duke of Normandy.
	www.newgenevacenter.org /movers/enlightenment2.htm (2503 words)

	DCHC - French Colonial Period to Statehood
		Marie, declared to representatives of fourteen Indian tribes that the surrounding country and all adjacent regions were the possessions of King Louis XIV.
		Marquette and Jolliet explore the lower Mississippi as far as the Arkansas River.
		King Louis XIV decrees that all traders are to be recalled and prohibited from going into the wilderness.
	images.library.uiuc.edu /projects/dchc/french-timeline.htm (636 words)

	St. Louis in Colonial & Revolutionary War Times
		The St. Louis area was first visited by French explorers during the expedition of Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet (a French Canadian fur trader).
		Louis County and the rest of the State of Missouri was part of the French colonial Territory of Illinois, which included "lands on both sides of the Mississippi between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes" (Foley, 1989).
		Since St. Louis' population at that time was primarily French extraction, the French flag, was allowed to fly for one day prior to the transfer to the United States.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/mo/county/stlouis/colonial.htm (2002 words)

	American Experience \| Chicago: City of the Century \| People & Events
		While Louis XIV reigned in France, plans were made to investigate the American continent that had been visited by French, English and Spanish explorers and settlers.
		Two young men, Louis Joliet, a fur trader, and Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, were chosen to lead an expedition from a mission at the northeast corner of Lake Michigan into the center of the unknown continent.
		Marquette's robes were recognized and they were welcomed into the village and fed. On their departure, the chief of the village gave them a calumet, a peace pipe, to present to potentially hostile tribes, and lent them his own ten-year-old son, who would help guide them on their journey.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/p_mandj.html (729 words)

	Jolliet and La Salle's Canal Plans
		With Father Jacques Marquette, Louis Jolliet traveled by canoe during the spring of 1673, first on the Wisconsin, then on to find the Mississippi River for Nouvelle France.
		Jolliet made a careful notation of the physiography of the area, leading us to believe that he and his companions spent several days there.
		He recognized the potential of a direct maritime link between the St. Lawrence estuary on the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, writing to another Jesuit priest: “...it should be easy to go as far as Florida in a bark....
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/1437.html (275 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Born in Québec in 1645, Jolliet is the first "French" explorer born in the New World.
		In 1673, Father Jacques Marquette and cartographer Louis Jolliet went in search for the Father of Waters, the Messipi River with a crew of five.
		Jolliet returned to Quebec, but as he headed down the last rough water before he reached Montréal, his canoe struck a rock.
	www.north.ecasd.k12.wi.us /Departments/Media/FurTrade/marqnjol.html (424 words)

	History Detroit 1701-2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Louis Joliet, brother of Adrien Joliet, was born in Quebec on September 21, 1645.
		Louis Joliet is most known for his explorations of the Mississippi River.
		Louis Joliet died in May of 1700 in Canada.
	www.historydetroit.com /people/louis_joliet.asp (188 words)

	Louis XVII - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Louis XVII (1785-1795), titular king of France (1793-1795).
		The son and Dauphin (heir) of King Louis XVI, eight-year-old Louis XVII was recognized...
		Jolliet, Louis (1645-1700), French-Canadian explorer, who led an expedition to explore the upper Mississippi River with Jesuit missionary...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Louis_XVII.html (118 words)

	ExplorerBioJoliet
		His father died when Louis was six years old, and when he was seventeen Louis Jolliet entered the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus.
		After three years, Jolliet left the Jesuits and began following in the footsteps of his older brother, Lucien, who was a successful trader and "voyageur." If Lucien had not disappeared on a mission through Iroquois territory, he, rather than Louis, would probably have been selected to lead the expedition to the Mississippi River.
		On Oct. 1, 1672, Jolliet and six companions formed a trading partnership for the voyage.
	www.walledlake.k12.mi.us /llake/explorerbiojoliet.htm (431 words)

	Explorers of Canada, Part XVI: Louis Jolliet
		Louis Jolliet was one of the first truly Canadian explorers as he was born on Canadian soil (the first in this series to be Canadian-born).
		In 1673, Jolliet was named head of an expedition with Father Marquette to discover the Grande Rivière: the Mississippi.
		Marquette stayed in the region while Jolliet went out to Sault Sainte Marie where he drew charts and studied the flora and fauna of the region.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/life_in_canada/86727 (445 words)

	Jolliet
		Louis Jolliet was born in New France in 1645.
		In 1672, Jolliet was chosen by the two highest officials in New France to lead an expedition to find the Mississippi River.
		Jolliet found that Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit Priest, was to come with him to spread Christianity among the Indians they met on the way.
	library.thinkquest.org /J002678F/jolliet.htm (301 words)

	Louis Jolliet Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Louis Jolliet (Joliet) was born September 21, 1645, in Quebec.
		In 1673, Jolliet lead an expedition to explore the Mississippi.
		Jolliet was appointed the Royal Hydrographer, in 1693.
	www.paralumun.com /exjolliet.htm (43 words)

	Missouri History: Historic Facts and Overview
		Although not involved in the last conflict (1754–63) of the French and Indian Wars, Missouri was affected by the French defeat when, in 1762, France secretly ceded the territory west of the Mississippi to Spain.
		By the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition (1803–6), St. Louis was already known as the gateway to the Far West.
		Louis lost half its population between 1950 to 1990, and out-migration has continued; what was once the fourth largest U.S. city is now barely in the top 50 in size.
	www.e-referencedesk.com /resources/state-history/missouri.html (1368 words)

	[No title]
		In 1672, Jolliet was chosen by the governor of France, along with Marquette, to explore the Mississippi River.
		This vision of Jolliet & Marquette (1675) eventually became the groundwork for the I & M Canal.
		Analysis-Compare and contrast the voyage of Jolliet & Marquette with the I & M Canal.
	www.lewisu.edu /neh/Lesson_pk2.doc (864 words)

	Discoverers Web: Jolliet and Marquette
		Louis Jolliet (also spelled Joliet), was born in Quebec in 1645.
		Louis Jolliet was sent out to search for this river, and Marquette was chosen to be the chaplain and missionary of the expedition.
		Le Soleil: Louis Jolliet et Cavelier de La Salle.
	www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/jolmar.html (674 words)

	Embassy of the United States Paris France
		Louis Jolliet and Father Marquette explore the Mississippi River region for France.
		The years that followed would see wheeling and dealing, diplomacy and negotiations, explorations and settlements of the land in the middle of the continent that would change and mold the face of the United States and the western balance of power of that era.
		A century later, in 1762-63, amidst France's defeat in the Seven Year War, Louis XV no longer found the land interesting, and France ceded part of the land tract west of the Mississippi to Spain, while Great Britain took possession of land to the east of the river, excepting the town of New Orleans.
	www.amb-usa.fr /events/2003/louisiana/timeline.htm (1335 words)

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