biography
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Charlevoix
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popular name of Father Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix
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pronunciation:
[shah(r)luhvwah]
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| lived:
| (1682–1761)
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| biography:
| Jesuit explorer of North America, born in St Quentin, N France. In 1720 he was sent by the French regent to find a route to W Canada. He travelled by canoe up the St Lawrence River across the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi to New Orleans, and was finally shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico. He became the only traveller of that time to describe the interior of North America. He described his travels in Histoire et description genérale de la Nouvelle France (1774). |
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