| LC control no. | n 50054922 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Joliet, Louis, 1645-1700 |
| Variant(s) | Jolliet, Louis, 1645-1700 Joliet, Louis (Explorer) |
| Other standard no. | 0000000073714558 327148995745659750445 Q506618 |
| Associated place | Mississippi River Valley |
| Birth date | 1645-09-21 |
| Death date | 1700-05 |
| Place of birth | Québec (Québec) |
| Place of death | Canada |
| Field of activity | Mississippi River--Discovery and exploration Mexico, Gulf of--Discovery and exploration Discoveries in geography |
| Profession or occupation | Explorers Fur traders |
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| Found in | Catholic encyclopedia online, viewed Apr. 10, 2014 (Louis Joliet, or Jolliet, was born at Québec on Sept. 21, 1645; he was ordered by governor Frontenac to explore the regions of Québec and elsewhere, so he and [Jacques] Marquette and their party travelled south in canoes until they reached the Mississippi River until they got to the Gulf of Mexico; died in Canada, May 1700) <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08496a.htm> New York times, 11 July 2021: in an article entitled "The battle between a great city and a great lake" on page 19 (In 1673, the Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette and fellow explorer Louis Joliet, a philosophy student turned fur trader, became the first known Europeans to set eyes on what is today Chicago) |
| Associated language | fre |
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