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The following is a list of French people known as explorers. Before 1500. Jean de Béthencourt (Canary Islands) Gadifer de la Salle (Canary Islands) 16th century
French explorers of North America (1 C, 54 P) S. French spationauts (13 P) Pages in category "French explorers" The following 153 pages are in this category, out of ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 December 2024. Leif Erikson (c.970–c.1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil. Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration. Marco ...
Jacques Cartier [a] (Breton: Jakez Karter; 31 December 1491 – 1 September 1557) was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France.Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map [3] the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas" [citation needed] after the Iroquoian names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona ...
Samuel de Champlain (French: [samɥɛl də ʃɑ̃plɛ̃]; 13 August 1574 [2] [Note 1] [Note 2] – 25 December 1635) was a French explorer, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.
Pages in category "19th-century French explorers" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The CEA argued that the dumps were experimental in nature, and that French oceanographers such as Vsevolod Romanovsky had recommended it. Romanovsky and other French scientists, including Louis Fage and Jacques Cousteau, repudiated the claim, saying that Romanovsky had in mind a much smaller amount. The CEA claimed that there was little ...
Médard Chouart des Groseilliers (1618–1696) was a French explorer and fur trader in Canada. In the early 1640s, des Groseilliers relocated to Quebec, and began to work around Huronia with the Jesuit missions in that area. There he learned the skills of a coureur des bois and in 1653 married his second wife, Margueritte. [38]