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The book fits in a uniquely American novel written thematically, written in the French language by an author who considered himself an outsider to America's Yankee society. [1] Unfortunately the Second World War and changes in mass media, as well as the eventual Quiet Revolution overshadowed American efforts in French-language preservation.
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (/ l ə ˈ s æ l /; November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687), was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and the Mississippi River.
Holbrook, Sabra (1976), The French Founders of North America and Their Heritage, New York: Atheneum, ISBN 978-0-689-30490-3; Katz, Ron. French America: French Architecture from Colonialization to the Birth of a Nation. Editions Didier Millet, 2004. McDermott, John Francis. The French in the Mississippi Valley (University of Illinois Press, 1965)
Some years after his purported journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Moncacht-Apé related his adventures and itinerary to Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, a French explorer and ethnographer in the colony of Louisiana. Le Page published his memoir in the 1750s, including material from Moncacht-Apé's account.
Carte Nouvelle de la Louisiane et de la Riviere de Missisipi (1713) prepared in part on the information provided by Joutel from the 1687–88 expedition. Henri Joutel (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi ʒutɛl]; c. 1643 – 1725), a French explorer and soldier, is known for his eyewitness history of the last North American expedition of René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle.
Pierre-Charles Le Sueur (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʃaʁl lə sɥœʁ]; c. 1657, Artois, France – 17 July 1704, Havana, Cuba) was a French fur trader and explorer in North America, recognized as the first known European to explore the Minnesota River valley.
Louis Armand, Baron de Lahontan (9 June 1666 – prior to 1716) was a French artistocrat, writer, and explorer who served in the French military in Canada, where he traveled extensively in the Wisconsin and Minnesota region and the upper Mississippi Valley.
Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac (/ ˈ k æ d ɪ l æ k /, French:; March 5, 1658 – October 16, 1730), born Antoine Laumet, was a French explorer and adventurer in New France, which stretched from Eastern Canada to Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico.